Podcast: Making Risk Flow

In the first episode of the new series, host Juan de Castro is joined by his good friend and Deputy CUO and Head of Third Party at Inigo Insurance, Craig Knightley. During their conversation, the pair discuss just how data analytics and insights can play a pivotal role in gaining a competitive advantage in insurance and ensure underwriters are more accurate in risk selection. Plus, Craig outlines the five pillars of Indigo's strategy: great data, great analysis, a great underwriting workbench, portfolio underwriting, and partnering with clients.

In the last episode of Season 3 of Making Risk Flow, host Juan de Castro highlights some of his favourite moments from the series. During the season, Juan has hosted 15 excellent guests from brokers, insurers and advisors. Looking back at the season, Juan, with the help of insightful clips, talks about the three common challenges that have spanned across all 12 episodes. The first is efficiency, and how manual processes can result in inefficient workflows that affect productivity and service. The second is effectiveness, and why poor underwriting data can impact the ability to drive consistent risk selection. The third theme surrounds continuous performance improvements, and the fact that the lack of visibility over frontline activities hinder the ability to identify improvement opportunities.

In this episode of Making Risk Flow, Juan is joined by analytics expert Paul Mang, Innovation Advisor at Guidewire and former global CEO of Analytics at Aon, to discuss the use of analytics in insurance and how to get better returns on such investment. Juan and Paul also address how the industry can make progress through interoperability, ways in which analytics can improve efficiency whilst driving down costs, and why the insurance industry needs to focus on increasing its relevancy.