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From Kafka’s nightmare to digital insurance
The world of insurance was once a symbol of bureaucratic complexity, not least as described by Franz Kafka himself.…

LBC Insurance Radar #12: Cyber, ESG and brokers in upheaval
The latest “LBC Insurance Radar” shows how the insurance industry is realigning itself: Cyber risks, ESG…

Insurers think in the ecosystem
The insurance industry is changing from a pure risk carrier to a networked service provider. Those who want to grow…

The Courage to Carve Out a Niche
If you want to survive in saturated markets, you need more than capital; you need clarity, courage and staying power.…

The Lesson from Bolivia
A young actuary travels to South America for the first time in the 1980s to get to know the insurance market. What…

Less is sometimes more
The insurance industry is often seen as a business that is geared towards growth. More premiums, more customers, more…

LBC Insurance Radar #10: Skills shortage, cyber reality and governance
Generational change, increasing cyber threats and stricter regulatory requirements are forcing insurers, brokers and…

Disruption instead of friendly business
In the podcast Paul the Insurer, host Paul tells the story of a young manager in Argentina who consistently modernized…

A pioneer of risk
In his latest episode, Paul the Insurer tells the story of how a visionary changed the rules of the game for…

LBC Insurance Radar 9: AI becomes a management task
Record highs on the technology stock markets, political pressure on health insurers and flexible on-demand policies are…

Size, Courage – and the Wrong Innovation
Success in the insurance industry rarely starts spectacularly, but it often ends globally. In this episode, Paul talks…

The Young Disruptor
A visit to Johannesburg in the early 1990s shows how a small team conquered the motor insurance market with telephone…