Specialist motorcycle insurance provider Clear Bike Insurance has selected leading claims management company White Knight Solutions to provide a complete outsourced claims service to its customers. White Knight will handle the full end to end process of Clear Bike customers’ claims, from first notification of loss, through hire and repair. Clear Bike Director Paul Wheeler comments: “We had a good look round the market before selecting White Knight. They emerged as the most suitable fit for our business. They quickly proved to us they are professional...  Lire la suite

Aviva will fully reopened its wrap and sipp platforms for new business. Re-engineered on a proven technology platform and including a series of significant improvements, the Aviva Wrap and Sipp platforms have been reopened following extensive testing with financial advisers. The Aviva Wrap has been designed to enable financial advisers to meet the challenges, and capitalise on the opportunities, posed by the introduction of the Retail Distribution Review (RDR). It underlines Aviva’s commitment to independent financial advisers and follows the...  Lire la suite

Aon Benfield today announces the launch of its highly anticipated proprietary facultative broking platform. The web portal, FAConnectSM, brings the broker marketplace to clients’ computer desktops, allowing them to quote and bind their unique facultative risks in less than five minutes through a straightforward user interface. FAConnect provides a choice of global markets, and is designed for high volume transactions, where frictional costs have traditionally made it uneconomical for intermediaries to participate in the sector. Elliot Richardson,...  Lire la suite

Zurich Financial Services Group today announced key enhancements to its Global Risk Assessment Module (GLORAM), an innovative tool designed to assist businesses around the world to cope with the management of risk. GLORAM is a fact-based management tool which simplifies the results of complex risk modeling in an easy to understand way. The tool has been further improved following the lessons learnt from the financial crisis and is designed to help businesses with strategic decision making and risk mitigation in the face of difficult and constantly...  Lire la suite

A new mobile application is set to keep Britain’s motorists moving and enable them to plan their route with the benefit of real time traffic information. The app, the first by RAC, is progressive amongst traffic apps as it shows start and end points of congestion, overlayed onto Google Maps. The app pinpoints the user’s exact location, meaning an immediate view of regional traffic is easily at hand. Text and audio summaries of traffic conditions are also available. This level of detail will give motorists the most precise and accurate view of...  Lire la suite