BIBA: regulatory change continues to stifle GI innovation
The British Insurance Brokers' Association have highlighted a "number of barriers to innovation" in the insurance broker sector.

In its response to HM Treasury’s consultation paper on draft innovation for financial services, BIBA discusses the "sheer weight of regulatory change" that the insurance broking community has had to deal with over the last few years. New regulation from the FCA and CMA has "resulted in a significant amount of resource being diverted away from developments to heighten customer experience", says the Association.
It added that while it welcomes initiatives such as the FCA’s Project Innovate, it has found that they have not always "expedited the granting of necessary permissions for new Fintech operations in the sector" and have not fully addressed the use of social media as a business generator.
Graeme Trudgill, BIBA Executive Director, said:
“The recent Enterprise Act includes measures that will help reduce the regulatory burden on business and we hope that the FCA will be included in these measures. It appears often that regulators’ do not make best use of technology hampering fast moving firms that want to bring new products to market. BIBA members are forward thinking and insurance brokers are often the biggest innovators in financial services but they need the support and the infrastructure to make developments customer ready.”
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