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    Ian Smith

    Insurance correspondent

    Ian Smith is the FT's insurance correspondent, covering the global industry from London. He was previously deputy markets news editor, and before that worked on the special reports desk. He joined the FT from Investors' Chronicle in 2018, where he was companies editor.

    He won the Scoop of the Year award at the 2023 British Insurance Brokers' Association media awards, and in 2022 took home Journalist of the Year as well as the Best Consumer award for a piece on how low-income households were being treated by the insurance sector.

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    • Wednesday, 20 December, 2023
      UK financial regulation
      UK to sign post-Brexit financial services deal with Switzerland

      Agreement aims to make it easier for corporate and wealthy clients in the two markets to do business with each other

      Jeremy Hunt
    • Saturday, 16 December, 2023
      Lloyd's of London Ltd
      Lloyd’s of London to stay in landmark building until at least 2035

      The insurance marketplace will remain at One Lime Street in a commitment to in-person trading

      One Lime Street, which was deigned by Richard Rogers.
    • Thursday, 14 December, 2023
      Pension Insurance Corp Ltd
      Apollo, Carlyle and KKR weigh bids for Pension Insurance Corporation

      US buyout groups consider joining thriving market for UK corporate pension deals

      People walk outside in London
    • Tuesday, 12 December, 2023
      Insurance
      Hiscox to use AI for underwriting process in tie-up with Google

      UK insurer to automate evaluation of specialist risks in tech collaboration it calls a first for London market

      Hiscox desks at Lloyd’s
    • Sunday, 3 December, 2023
      IPOs
      Insurer Aspen chooses New York over London for planned $4bn IPO

      Concerns about lower valuations and stringent listing requirements pushed management away from UK

      New York skyline as seen on a Staten Island ferry
    • Tuesday, 28 November, 2023
      Saga Plc
      Saga chief Euan Sutherland resigns as group explores debt reduction

      Insurance and travel group’s chief financial officer Mike Hazell to take the helm

      Saga Cruises previews its new ship, ‘Spirit of Adventure’
    • Tuesday, 28 November, 2023
      Tokio Marine Holdings Inc
      Tokio Marine warns on insurers backing away from climate risks

      Chief says sector needs to face the threat ‘from the front’ and act as shock absorber for society

      Tokio Marine chief executive Satoru Komiya at the company’s headquarters in Tokyo, Japan
    • Sunday, 26 November, 2023
      Healthcare costs
      How the boom in private medical insurance is exposing its own flaws

      Demand is soaring thanks to the NHS crisis, but providers are up against inflation and fierce competition for doctors

      Ryan Corwood, an operation department practitioner, prepares an operating theatre at the BMI Weymouth hospital in London
    • Friday, 24 November, 2023
      Boots UK Ltd
      Boots offloads £4.8bn pension scheme to Legal & General

      Deal could pave way for sale of pharmacy chain and comes on same day as £4bn Co-op agreement

      A Boots store in London
    • Tuesday, 21 November, 2023
      UK insurance industry
      Lloyd’s brokers settle with US DoJ over Ecuadorean bribery scheme

      Tysers and HW Wood paid bribes via Florida bank accounts, say authorities

      US 100 dollar notes
    • Sunday, 19 November, 2023
      Insurance
      Generali executive warns on private equity funds in insurance

      Short-term funds can have misaligned interests, says finance chief, after collapse of rival insurer

      The Generali logo
    • Thursday, 16 November, 2023
      Pensions industry
      Jeremy Hunt to unveil expanded role for UK’s pensions lifeboat fund

      Chancellor’s move is part of range of measures aimed at channelling retirement fund investment to boost economic growth

      Jeremy Hunt
    • Wednesday, 15 November, 2023
      FT CollectionsWar in Ukraine: economy and trade
      Ukraine reaches deal with insurers for grain shipments

      Arrangement created with broking giant Marsh McLennan will provide affordable cover for Black Sea vessels

      Odesa port
    • Tuesday, 14 November, 2023
      News in-depthUK politics
      David Cameron joined by familiar faces as he returns to UK politics

      New foreign secretary attends first cabinet in more than 7 years after Rishi Sunak reshuffles top team

      Foreign secretary David Cameron and minister for development in the foreign office Andrew Mitchell
    • Tuesday, 14 November, 2023
      Insurance
      Aon president warns insurers against ‘walking away’ from major risks

      Industry should be ‘very careful’ about offloading coverage of cyber attacks and pandemics to public sector

      A woman inside a flooded flat
    • Monday, 13 November, 2023
      Special purpose acquisition companies
      London Spac ditches attempt to raise funds for insurance deal

      Financials Acquisition Corp blames volatile markets for failure to attract investors and says it will wind up

      A sign in the London Stock Exchange Group’s office atrium
    • Wednesday, 8 November, 2023
      Lloyd's of London Ltd
      Lloyd’s of London pledges $50mn over ‘central’ role in the slave trade

      Historic evidence to show involvement but insurance market rejects calls to compensate descendants

      Outside of Lloyd’s of London building
    • Monday, 6 November, 2023
      Greensill Capital
      Greensill misled German regulator on insurance deal, IAG claims

      Defunct lender hid deal to fund its own claims as it sought lower capital requirements, insurer alleges

      Entrance to Greensill Capital UK offices
    • Sunday, 5 November, 2023
      Shipping
      Shipowners urged to protect vessels against electric-car fires

      Exports of lithium ion-based products increase safety risks and pose ‘huge problem’ for shipping, says IMO

    • Friday, 3 November, 2023
      Private equity
      IMF raises alarm over ‘contagion’ from private capital in life insurance

      Potential for ‘contagion’ to wider financial sector and real economy as private capital groups have flooded in

      IMF logo
    • Thursday, 2 November, 2023
      Greensill Capital
      Greensill insurer IAG turns fire on rivals in battle over investor losses

      Australian insurer says Tokio Marine and Marsh McLennan should also be liable if legal case is lost

      The offices of Greensill Capital
    • Wednesday, 1 November, 2023
      UK insurance industry
      Is state intervention needed for cyber insurance?

      A systemic attack could be too large, too widespread, to be insured

      The scene after an IRA bomb exploded in London in 1992
    • Monday, 30 October, 2023
      Climate change
      Insurer body plans infrastructure fund for climate-hit economies

      Insurance Development Forum backed by UN and World Bank seeks to raise hundreds of millions of dollars

      A depleted river in Yemen
    • Sunday, 29 October, 2023
      UK insurance industry
      UK insurance brokers back move to cut costs for leaseholders

      Five groups pledge to stop sharing commissions with landlords and to cap fees

      The Nine Elms development in Battersea
    • Sunday, 29 October, 2023
      UK insurance industry
      UK home insurance prices set to jump after dire year for underwriters

      Rise of 36% expected due to swings in weather, higher inflation and strained supply chains, says EY

      Aerial view of terraced homes in UK
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