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Ethics and Insurance

I help insurers achieve greater certainty on ethical issues, both present and emerging. I have a reputation for foresight, pragmatism and independent thinking, particularly around data ethics. You can keep in touch with my analysis through my free weekly ‘Ethics and Insurance’ newsletter. Join below
Ethics and Insurance
What I do

Insight

I help insurers understand developments in insurance from an ethical perspective and the options open to them. My analysis delivers an extra level of understanding from an independent perspective
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Critical Friend

Insurers face some ethical challenges at the moment – I’ve been tracking them for several years. My role as a critical friend helps them to reality check their thinking and turn a situation into a plan.
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Horizon Scanning

I’ve been an influential figure in analysing the implications of digital insurance for several years now. Through workshops and research, my ethics radar highlights the problems and opportunities to look out for.
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Underwriting • 3 min read

FCA questioned on Financial Inclusion

The UK regulator shared its thinking on financial inclusion with Parliament’s Treasury Committee recently. It was clear that they recognised the issue, but also that they didn’t understand, in terms of insurance, what was behind it.…
Duncan Minty
Duncan Minty •
Could Financial Inclusion be at a Turning Point? public
Regulation • 9 min read

Could Financial Inclusion be at a Turning Point?

Pressure is being put on the UK Government to raise the attention that the regulator gives to financial inclusion. Not many of you will realise that, at the moment, such attention is pretty discretionary. Will this pressure succeed? And if it does, what repercussions could this have for insurers?…
Duncan Minty
Duncan Minty •
Using Protected Activities to Manage Reputational Risk public
Ethical Risks • 5 min read

Using Protected Activities to Manage Reputational Risk

Protected activities could be a useful tool for insurers to manage their most significant ethical risks. And they signal to key audiences that the insurer’s commitments around those risks are being taken particularly seriously. So how do they work and how can they make a difference?…
Duncan Minty
Duncan Minty •
Underwriting • 4 min read

Are Expectations for Automated Underwriting Realistic?

A Swiss Re executive wrote an interesting article this month on the automation of life and health underwriting. The article sets out the expectations firms like Swiss Re have for automation, but is surprisingly quiet on the hurdles it still needs to address for those expectations to be realised.…
Duncan Minty
Duncan Minty •
Data Ethics • 2 min read

RGA’s Data and Analytics Ethics Framework

The US reinsurer RGA has recently introduced a Data and Analytics Ethics Framework. It’s worth a look, but with a critical eye, for it seems clear about what the reinsurer wants to address , but unclear about how it’s going to go about doing that.…
Duncan Minty
Duncan Minty •
Data Ethics • 3 min read

Admiral is looking for a Data Ethics Analyst

Admiral is looking to recruit a data ethics analyst. It’s a new role, located within their ‘Group Data Protection and Privacy’ function. It’s an opportune moment to create such a role, given the ethical risks that insurers are facing from data and analytics. So what does it involve?…
Duncan Minty
Duncan Minty •
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Data Ethics

Data Ethics

218+
Underwriting

Underwriting

166+
Accountability

Accountability

112+
Regulation

Regulation

95+
Fairness

Fairness

88+
Personalisation

Personalisation

75+
Discrimination

Discrimination

67+
Claims

Claims

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