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Duncan Minty

Duncan Minty

Duncan has been researching and writing about ethics in insurance for over 20 years. As a Chartered Insurance Practitioner, he combines market knowledge with a strong and independent radar on ethics.
545 posts •
Duncan Minty
Hardening Attitudes to Insurance Lobbying public
Regulation • 3 min read

Hardening Attitudes to Insurance Lobbying

Insurers invest a lot of money in trade bodies. Their role is to formulate sector level policy and lobby policy makers on members’ interests. However that lobbying seems to be having less impact. Insurers’ no longer have the most convincing message. The implications of this are significant.…
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Failing to Prevent Fraud - the Implications for Insurers public
Accountability • 5 min read

Failing to Prevent Fraud - the Implications for Insurers

The UK government is introducing a new counter fraud law. It will be an offence for an organisation to fail to prevent fraud by an employee or someone working on their behalf. The range of activities covered is very wide. So what should insurers be looking at to avoid falling foul of this new law?…
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NAO report exposes the FCA’s Struggles with Data public
Regulation • 4 min read

NAO report exposes the FCA’s Struggles with Data

The FCA has been struggling with data risks associated with both the market and its own transformation. So reported the National Audit Office recently. This explains the FCA’s hot and cold approach to data issues. So what does this mean for UK insurers over the next 12 months?…
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What the 3 Most Read Articles in 2023 Tell Us public
Claims • 2 min read

What the 3 Most Read Articles in 2023 Tell Us

Three articles I wrote in 2023 grabbed the attention of readers. Out of the 76 articles I wrote last year covering a wide range of topics, the interest in these three stands out. I put this into context and look at what they say about insurers’ interests looking forward.…
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Forced Transparency – the Challenge facing Insurers public
Data Ethics • 3 min read

Forced Transparency – the Challenge facing Insurers

2024 will see several challenges that the insurance sector is facing come to a head. Out of this will emerge a period of forced transparency, in which certain working practices are opened up to scrutiny. How insurers prepare for this is crucial for customers, investors and regulators.…
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Synthetic Data - 3 Things Insurers Need to Understand public
Data Ethics • 5 min read

Synthetic Data - 3 Things Insurers Need to Understand

The data that fuels a digital strategy can be incomplete, expensive or biased. One way to overcome this is through synthetic data. As margins from existing datasets narrow, more and more insurers will turn to it. So what sort of ethical questions are associated with it?…
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Should Minimum Insurance be Mandated to boost Resilience public
Personalisation • 6 min read

Should Minimum Insurance be Mandated to boost Resilience

The financial resilience of UK society is widely seen to be declining. People are caught between the trend in finance to take more responsibility for personal risks and the increasingly granular pricing of those risks. Is the solution to be found in some form of mandatory minimum insurance cover?…
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Data Ethics & Insurance : New Initiatives, Hard Decisions public
Data Ethics • 7 min read

Data Ethics & Insurance : New Initiatives, Hard Decisions

Several initiatives on data ethics will be launched in the UK insurance sector in 2024. That’s great, but those commitments need to reflect what consumers are concerned about. This means a lot of risk assessment and implementation work. So what are the hard decisions that will inevitably be faced?…
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Fairness as a Service : a Step Forward for Insurers public
Fairness • 8 min read

Fairness as a Service : a Step Forward for Insurers

A data and analytics provider to the insurance sector has launched fairness as a service. It’s orientated around the US requirement that insurers do not unfairly discriminate. It’s the sort of service that a recent UK Gov. report called for. I examine how it works and what it points to.…
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