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Insurance company groups PPL and UK General Insurance have rebranded under the new Bspoke Group banner, with head offices in Leeds.

Bspoke Underwriting is looking selectively at acquisitions that can ‘add value’, says chief executive Tim Smyth.

Adelaide Cioni talks about her interest in patterns, and how these relate to something deep inside us, a universal alphabet, which evades meaning

Night is falling on Tokyo. The moon, shining in a berry-blue sky, has come to govern the darkness. But it has not come alone: a new study reveals that artificial light in coastal megacities is outshining the moon and exposing marine ecosystems to threats still poorly understood. A new model looking at how natural and […]

Urban light pollution is a danger to marine ecosystems, new research has found.

The combined business formed by the bringing together of managing general agents UK General and Precision Partnership is to pursue “substantial” short-term

Rcapital Partners LLP, and joint investor Montague Investment Group have completed the acquisition of UK General Insurance and Precision Partnership Limited,

The investors have also purchased MGA service company Precision Partnership, and the firms’ leaderships will be combined.

Siân joined Insurance Age as commissioning editor in 2014 and prior to this worked on a range of B2B titles covering topics including recycling, the co-operative movement and health and social care. After a stint as deputy editor she was promoted to editor in 2018. During that year she also joined, alongside a set of intrepid insurance professionals, the InsureTrek which saw the group hike the Mont Blanc Massif and raise more than £100,000 for Insurance United Against Dementia. In 2020 Siân w...

Tim Smyth, CEO of UK General Insurance, says the key to Amazon’s success lies in its use of data, and that brokers and managing general agents must invest in