London Market Group News

RSA Begins Trading on London Market Placing Platform, PPL

International insurer RSA has begun trading on the London insurance market’s electronic placing platform, PPL (Placing Platform Ltd.), which enables brokers and underwriters to quote, negotiate, bind and endorse business using one market-wide system. RSA’s Profin underwriting team is now …

London Market’s Electronic Placing Platform Binds 1st Standalone Terrorism Risk

London Market Group (LMG) announce that the first standalone terrorism risk was bound on PPL – the London Market’s electronic placing platform – within the first hour of trading yesterday morning. The broker was Marsh and the underwriter was Chaucer. …

London Market’s Electronic Placing Platform Begins Trading Terrorism Risks

London Market Group (LMG) announced that PPL – the London Market’s electronic placing platform began trading today, with brokers and underwriters exchanging information on standalone terrorism risks, the first class of business to go live on the system. “We are …

Xuber Survey Finds London Insurance Execs Fear ‘Brexit’

Xuber, Xchanging’s insurance software business, has published a survey, which concludes that almost three-quarters (71 percent) of insurance executives believe a UK exit from the European Union would be bad for business in the London insurance market. According to the …

Steve Hearn to Leave Willis for CEO Role at Cooper Gay Swett & Crawford

Willis Group Holdings confirmed that Deputy CEO Steve Hearn has decided to leave the company and will take up the role of CEO at Cooper Gay Swett & Crawford (CGSW) at the beginning of November. The announcement came one day …

Endorsements for All Business Classes in London Go Electronic Says LMG

The London Market Group (LMG) announced that the electronic endorsements initiative will extend to all classes of business as of today, the 5th of March. The extension of the services pilot program to all classes comes less than a year …

Electronic Endorsements Success Spreads across London Market

The London Market Group (LMG), which introduced a platform for the electronic support for endorsements in April, noted that the program has gotten off to a “resounding start;” so good in fact that it’s introducing three new classes of business. …