Insurtech Resources

Overview: A professional Body for Insurance and personal finance, offering regulated qualifications, professional membership and corporate learning.

Principle Purpose:

• Public Body and Regulatory Affairs
• Other (Professional learning and qualifications)

Key Activities:

• Driving policy change
• Pushing the UK's position internationally
• Supporting financial institutions in their innovation ambitions
• Other (Building public trust in insurance, through evidencing competence and ethical standards)

Overview: Strengthening the tech network and connecting organisations across the North East of England.

Principle purpose:

• Networking
• Events

Key activities:

• Helping start-ups
• Helping scale-ups
• Supporting financial institutions in their innovation ambitions

Overview: FinTech Alliance is the digital community and marketplace for the entire UK FinTech sector. Supported by the UK government it offers companies a funding platform, access to executive education, a mentoring hub, diversity hub and jobs board. It also makes companies smarter through its news and opinion, a comprehensive knowledge bank of insightful content and listings of FinTech events.

Principle purpose:

• Networking
• Events
• Investment Support
• Sector information and intelligence

Key activities:

• Helping start-ups
• Helping scale-ups
• Supporting financials institutions in their innovation ambitions
• Enhancing the overall insurtech ecosystem
• Pushing the UK's position internationally

Overview:  A Cluster Management Organisation supported by both public and private sectors to ensure that Scotland seizes the fintech opportunity.

Principle Purpose:

• Networking
• Sector information and intelligence
• Other (Cluster management organisation)

Key Activities:

• Helping start-ups
• Helping scale-ups
• Supporting financial institutions in their innovation ambitions
• Enhancing the overall insurtech ecosystem
• Pushing the UK's position internationally

Overview: Fintech Wales is a not-for-profit organisation aimed at making Welsh Fintech a pillar of the global economy- nurturing talent while connecting and enabling the sector’s ecosystem

Principle purpose:

• Networking
• Investment support
• Events

Key activities:

• Helping start-ups
• Helping scale-ups
• Supporting financial institutions in their innovation ambitions
• Enhancing the overall insurtech ecosystem
• Pushing the UK’s position internationally

Overview: Innovate Finance's mission is to accelerate the UK's leading role in the financial services sector by directly supporting the next generation of technology-led innovators.

Principle purpose:

• Trade association
• Public policy and regulatory affairs
• Events
• Networking
• Investment support
• Sector information and intelligence

Key activities:

• Helping start-ups
• Helping scale-ups
• Driving policy change
• Supporting financial institutions in their innovation ambitions
• Pushing the UK's position internationally

Overview: We’re discussing innovation, data and analytics in insurance, technology, risk management and investment from the best companies around the world, big and small, new and old. Over 20,000 people benefit from our insights, reach and network.

Principle Purpose:

• Networking
• Events
• Sector information and intelligence

Key Activities:

• Helping start-ups
• Helping scale-ups
• Supporting financial institutions in their innovation ambitions
• Enhancing the overall insurtech ecosystem
• Pushing the UK's position internationally

Overview: We are the trade association for the community of insurtech startups in the UK. We are the largest formal insurtech alliance in the world, our mission is to transform the insurance industry through the use of technology, and to make the UK the global leader for insurance innovation.

Principle purpose:

• Trade association
• Public policy and regulatory affairs
• Events
• Networking
• Sector information and intelligence

Key activities:

• Helping start-ups
• Driving policy changes
• Supporting financial institutions in their innovation ambitions
• Enhancing the overall insurtech ecosystem
• Pushing the UK's position internally
• Helping scale-ups

Overview: We are the business growth and destination agency for London. We support international investment into London by attracting visitors, major events and conventions, students and businesses. We also have two trade programmes supporting London based businesses who may have barriers to scaling and looking to internationalise.

Principle purpose: 

• Other (We are a not for profit public private partnership partly funded by the Mayors office and commercial partners)

Key activities:

• Helping start-ups
• Helping scale-ups
• Enhancing the overall insurtech ecosystem
• Pushing the UK’s position internationally
• Other (We promote and support London and the 33 boroughs that comprise London)

Overview: Technology Driven Next Generation Insurance - TECHNGI, is a cross-disciplinary research project investigating the opportunities and challenges for the UK insurance industry arising from the application of new AI technologies, including machine learning, distributed ledger, automated processing, and the explosion of available data.Lead by Loughborough University, we bring multiple academic and industry partners together and are funded as part of the UK’s Next Generation Services Industrial Challenge.

Principle purpose: 

• Public policy and regulatory affairs
• Sector information and intelligence 
• Regulator

Key activities:

• Helping start-ups
• Driving policy change
• Enhancing the overall insurtech ecosystem
• Pushing the UK’s position internationally

Overview: Mobility, blockchain, IoT and regulatory labs.Research based working groups.Participate in regulatory innovation hubs.Provide tools and software repositories.

Principle purpose: 

• Network 
• Sector information and intelligence 
• Other (OPIN is primarily a research & development organisation)

Key activities:

• Other (Global common data standard. Global blueprint for open API spec. Innovation conducive regulatory and compliance frameworks. Interoperable, Secure and scalable standards.)

Overview: Supported by HM Treasury and powered by Tech Nation, the Board develop collaborative initiatives that promote the UK Insurtech ecosystem, help insurtechs achieve scale, and create an innovative environment for further developments to the benefit of consumers.

Principle Purpose:

• Sector information and intelligence
• Events
• Networking

Key Activities:

• Helping start-ups
• Helping scale-ups
• Supporting financial institutions in their innovation ambitions
• Enhancing the overall insurtech ecosystem