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Stay informed with the latest news and perspectives from the MGAA, our members, and partner organisations.
Proudly Showcase Your MGAA Membership Tier
We’re happy to share our refreshed MGAA logo - designed to help you proudly showcase your membership and demonstrate your commitment to industry excellence. Displaying the MGAA logo reinforces your organisation’s credibility, highlights your alignment with industry best practices, and strengthens your position as a trusted partner in the MGA sector.
15th May 2026
Dynamo Analytics: Insight, workflows, data, KPIs, and protected IP with Psicle
Software tools available to MGAs are often expensive, outdated and inflexible in managing your key metrics. Psicle provides an affordable tool to configure your modelling processes (and adaptable to nuances across pricing reserving, and financial reporting) without feeling like you’re putting a square peg in a round hole. Step away from spreadsheets to report on the important metrics to you, using the best data, keeping ownership of your IP, and with a solution that flexibly evolves as you do.
8th May 2026
AXA’s Guide to Turbo‑charging Your BIBA for Maximum Impact
If you’re in insurance, you’ll know BIBA is the biggest, brightest, most anticipated event on the calendar. As soon as the dates are announced, diaries are cleared and plans are made - think coffee catchups, important meetings, lively dinners, and maybe a few drinks with key contacts who could be game changers for your year ahead.
1st April 2026
Ensure You Receive All MGAA Communications
We want to ensure all MGAA members continue to receive our latest updates, event invitations, and key communications without interruption. Recently, we’ve become aware that some emails have been caught in spam filters or quarantined by company firewalls. What You Need to Do To make sure you don’t miss any important information, please ask your...
20th March 2026
Keeping the Appointed Representatives Model, Closing the Gaps: What HM Treasury’s Consultation Means for MGAs
The UK’s Appointed Representatives (AR) regime is entering its next phase of reform with HM Treasury publishing their Consultation Paper (Consultation: The Appointed Representatives Regime) on 12th February 2026, setting out the proposed reforms that fall outside the current scope of FCA regulation. For MGAs, who may rely on ARs and IARs as vital routes...
18th February 2026
AXA Breakfast Briefing at Lloyd’s Navigating the Future in a Changing Market
In January 2026, the Managing General Agents’ Association hosted its breakfast briefing in association with AXA at the Old Library in the Lloyd’s Building, bringing together senior voices from across the MGA and carrier community to explore how the market is changing and what lies ahead. The event was chaired by Mike Keating, CEO of...
10th February 2026
MGAA sets out priorities for 2026 and announces new Board appointments at AGM
London, UK, 28 January 2026 – The Managing General Agents’ Association (MGAA) today outlined its priorities for 2026 at its Annual General Meeting (AGM), alongside announcing updates to its Board. Against a backdrop of continued regulatory scrutiny and sustained growth in the MGA sector, the MGAA said its focus for the year ahead will be...
28th January 2026
Root: 2026 Outlook – Why API-Driven Architecture Is the Key to Unlocking AI for MGAs
By Cameron Parsons, Head of Business Development, Root A live poll taken during Root’s recent MGAA Market Briefing How API-Driven Insurance Models are Transforming Distribution indicated a striking truth about the MGA market: half of MGAs are still at the very beginning of their digital and API transformation journey. Forty per cent of leaders said...
9th January 2026
Practical AI in claims: how RDT is delivering real cost reduction for MGAs
Artificial intelligence has moved rapidly from industry buzzword to operational necessity in insurance claims. For MGAs the focus is no longer on experimentation or proof of concept, but on how AI can be applied practically to reduce claims handling costs while maintaining control, consistency and service quality. At RDT, we work closely with MGAs to...
9th January 2026
Intersys: A New Year’s Resolution for MGAs – Bring Shadow AI Under Governance Control
By Matthew Geyman, Managing Director, Intersys MGAs enter 2026 in an environment defined by contradictory forces: the promise of AI-enabled efficiency, and the escalating operational, regulatory and cyber risks that accompany it. Few innovations have permeated the market as quickly as generative AI. Since 2022, AI tools have become embedded in underwriting, triage, bordereaux cleansing,...
9th January 2026
Inari: AI Build vs. Buy – Smarter Underwriting Software Decisions for MGAs
AI has moved quickly from buzzword to boardroom priority across the insurance market. For MGAs, the real question is no longer whether to adopt AI, but where it genuinely adds real value to underwriting, and who should realistically build and maintain those capabilities, given the cost, complexity, and ongoing effort required. In practice, since AI...
9th January 2026
Encora: From Challenge to Change – AI Applications Transforming Insurance
By Marc Hollyoak, Head of AI Practice – Encora Europe The insurance industry stands at a pivotal crossroads. While approximately 75% of insurers now use Generative AI, only 13% have achieved enterprise-scale deployment. This disparity reveals the fundamental challenge facing the sector: moving beyond pilot projects to systematic transformation. Early adopters are reporting returns on...
9th January 2026
Earnix: New Research Shows AI Adoption Has Entered the Early Majority – Are MGAs Ready?
By Andrew How, Director of EMEA Insurance, Earnix Artificial intelligence is no longer an abstract or experimental concept for the insurance sector; it is now embedded in core decision-making processes and is scaling rapidly. The upcoming Earnix 2026 Industry Trends Report, drawing on the views of more than 400 global insurance executives, confirms that the...
9th January 2026
Insurance Insider: AI progress: AI’s pull is strong, but investment must focus on talent too
In this final instalment, we argue that investing in personnel is as critical to success as the tech itself. Over the summer, Insurance Insider produced its AI progress series, in which we looked at how the insurance industry is already implementing artificial intelligence, what practical gains have been made and where key concerns lie for...
15th December 2025
Go-Insur PAS from Pancentric: Broken Bordereaux, Broken Trust: The MGA Problem We Can’t Ignore
By: Simon Fenn Bordereaux reports shouldn’t be a monthly battle. Yet for many MGAs, it is. Despite years of digitisation, operational reform, and new data standards, too many bordereau reports are still late, inconsistent, queried, or corrected long after the fact—and insurers notice. It’s time to call it what it is: a systemic problem that...
15th December 2025
E-Zee Insurance Solutions: Unlocking the Potential of ProductWriter
At e-Zee, when we talk about “doing business” we mean it literally. Our followers know we’re partial to an engine analogy, so think about your own MGA and how it “runs”.
14th November 2025
Delegated Claims: The Overlooked Challenge for Smaller MGAs
By Sharon Brown, MGAA Board Director Around 90% of MGAs now use TPAs (Third-Party Administrators) to handle their claims – a figure highlighted by MGAA CEO Mike Keating in Insurance Business as part of the sector’s growing reliance on specialist suppliers. TPAs play an important role in supporting sustainable growth for MGAs by providing scalability...
29th October 2025
An E-Zee Way To The Fast Lane
Your administration platform is the engine room of your business and data is fuel. Mis-fuel and it can make for a bumpy ride. Competitors with finely tuned engines will overtake, and without proper maintenance you’ll end up with a total breakdown. So, imagine how great it feels when you know that the engine is ticking...
22nd October 2025
Regnition: New FCA Rules on Non-Financial Misconduct – Is Your Firm Ready?
The FCA has published a consultation (CP25/18) proposing new rules on non-financial misconduct that would significantly expand the scope of COCON (Conduct Rules) to non-bank SMCR firms—including MGAs, fintechs, asset managers, insurers, investment advisers and more. Around 37,000 regulated firms could be brought into scope for the new rules, and will need to ensure they...
20th October 2025
PwC: Establishing, scaling and sustaining a successful MGA – Navigating the MGA lifecycle
Specialty MGAs are becoming a critical nexus for the global (re)insurance market, beyond traditional marketplaces such as Lloyd’s and the US E&S market where they have long operated through and indeed shaped many previous underwriting cycles. PwC is working with (re)insurers, hybrid carriers, platform incubators, private equity and increasingly credit funds who are queued up...
20th October 2025
Percayso: Unlocking the power of data for MGAs
Introduction to Percayso Inform Without expert data the MGAs that support so many areas of the market simply could not exist. Data is the elixir for effective, profitable underwriting and, at Percayso we help MGAs ensure they have the most accurate, wide-ranging and up-to-date datasets to enable them to excel. Broad outline of service Our...
20th October 2025
The Importance Of Pricing To MGA’s and Automation
The price of a policy can be critical to attain the volume and profitability an MGA needs to grow. This is a field of actuarial science of great importance. Especially in the UK, pricing can be extremely competitive. Specific to MGA’s, several tactics are often used to differentiate their pricing; Data Driven Pricing By utilising...
16th September 2025
Unlocking the Power of Management Information: A Smarter Approach for MGAs
In today’s fast-evolving insurance landscape, Managing General Agents are navigating regulatory scrutiny, economic uncertainty and technological innovation. In response, many are looking to enhance their technical capabilities, improve data integrity and align more closely with strategic goals to stay competitive and resilient. Amid this dynamic backdrop and competing time pressures, the importance of efficiently producing...
16th September 2025
PKF Broking Breakfast – preparing for tomorrow: FRS 102, M&A Tax and the role of AI
Join PKF’s Broking Breakfast event, which is taking place on Thursday 2 October in the heart of the City at Events @ No 6.
15th September 2025
Driving Sustainable Partnerships: Mike Crane’s Perspective from AXA Commercial
Mike Crane MGAA blog to promote MGAA Conversations podcast
15th September 2025
Networking in Practice: MGAA Next Gen Panel Champions the Power of Connection at Annual Conference
At the Managing General Agents’ Association (MGAA) Annual Conference on 3rd July, a dedicated Next Gen session brought together early-career professionals and industry leaders for a practical and insightful discussion on the importance of building meaningful professional relationships.
5th September 2025
Wildfire Risks Reach Record Highs
Once a rarity, wildfires are becoming an increasing concern for the UK insurance industry. As temperatures rise and drier conditions take hold, fire risk is no longer a phenomenon confined to hotter parts of the world.
2nd September 2025
The History of Insurance: The Role of MGAs for Next Gen Professionals
The History of Insurance and the MGA (Managing General Agent) offers valuable context for the Next Gen in insurance, highlighting how the industry’s evolution has shaped today’s dynamic MGA landscape. Understanding this journey—from ancient risk-sharing practices to the specialised MGA model—provides insight into how MGAs continue to play a unique role within insurance.
15th August 2025
Weightmans: UK Government Ransomware Payment Ban: What Does it Mean for Businesses?
In a watershed moment, the UK government has announced that it will move forward with plans to ban ransomware payments by public sector bodies and critical national infrastructure (CNI) organisations.
6th August 2025
Sefas: The Importance of Data Security in Customer Communications
Businesses handle vast amounts of sensitive customer information, from financial transactions to healthcare records, making them prime targets for cybercriminals. Without strong customer communication data security measures, organisations risk data breaches that can lead to severe financial losses, reputational damage and legal penalties. A data breach can cost companies millions in fines, compensation claims and...
6th August 2025
Outbound: The MGAs Winning the AI Implementation Game Have One Thing in Common: Better Security
As you’re reading this, the UK Managing General Agents (MGA) sector stands at a pivotal moment. With private equity investment reaching all-time highs and carriers increasingly viewing MGAs as strategic partners rather than mere distributors, there is more opportunity than ever for agents to expand their capacity. But increased opportunity also means increased competition. With...
6th August 2025
Insurance Insider: Parametric Solutions in Cyber on the Up as SME Coverage Needs Grow
With companies growing more dependent on digital infrastructure and cloud systems for day-to-day operations, cyber insurers are looking at parametric and agreed value solutions for business interruption (BI) claims, multiple sources in the industry said.
6th August 2025
DynaRisk: From Reactive to Proactive: How MGAs Can Take Control of Cyber Risk
The insurance industry has long taken a reactive approach to cyber risk, responding to incidents only after they occur. But as cyber threats become more frequent, complex, and costly, this approach is no longer sustainable.
6th August 2025
AXA UK at the MGAA Conference 2025
AXA UK has been involved in the MGA market for more than 30 years, providing capacity for niche schemes and offering long-term support to its MGA partners.
23rd July 2025
VIPR: Claims Data Processing – The Role of Automation and AI for MGAs
Managing claims data efficiently is one of the most critical operational challenges facing Managing General Agents (MGAs) today. MGAs are under increasing pressure to process claims data faster, smarter and more accurately, while also complying with ever-tightening regulations. This requires a smarter approach to data management overall – one that enables quick, actionable insights and...
10th July 2025
Sefas: The Importance of Data Security in Customer Communications
The Importance of Data Security in Customer Communications Businesses handle vast amounts of sensitive customer information, from financial transactions to healthcare records, making them prime targets for cybercriminals. Without strong customer communication data security measures, organisations risk data breaches that can lead to severe financial losses, reputational damage and legal penalties. A data breach can...
10th July 2025
Operational Support that Scales: How Software Can Empower the Ambitions of MGAs with Paracode
Managing General Agents (MGAs) sit at the very heart of innovation in the insurance market. Nimble, expert-led, and relentlessly customer-focused, MGAs are uniquely positioned to deliver specialist products with real impact. But scaling that impact—and doing so without operational chaos—is no small task. At ParaCode, we believe that the right software can act as a...
10th July 2025
Lexis Nexis: Streamlining Data Decisioning for MGAs
We understand MGAs operate in a diverse range of specialist fields and can require a broad range of insurance data to understand the risks they are managing, from the point of quote to claim. LexisNexis® Risk Solutions simplifies the complex challenge of risk assessment and ongoing policy management. This is achieved by streamlining meaningful insights...
10th July 2025
The Administration Hub: Why use a Virtual Assistant?
With today’s modern age there are often a wide array of solutions to almost any given problem. Therefore, when you’re looking at hiring help with your business, whether it be for admin, PA, finance or credit control, the question “Why use a virtual assistant?” may come up. And that’s a good question: What are the...
10th July 2025
Top tips to protect your clients from identity theft
The recent cyber attack on Marks and Spencer, which resulted in the compromise of personal customer information, have highlighted that identity protection is more crucial than ever. Although the breached data didn’t include customer payment or card details, or account passwords, there’s still a risk that hackers could combine this information with data from other...
24th June 2025
Networking for Impact: A Deep Dive Ahead of the MGAA Annual Conference 2025
As we head into the MGAA Annual Conference 2025, the buzz isn’t just about the keynote speakers or panel debates—it’s about the people you meet in between. For Managing General Agents (MGAs) and emerging professionals, this flagship event is a golden opportunity to build relationships, exchange ideas, and lay the groundwork for collaboration in the...
23rd June 2025
Geospatial Intelligence Data: The Power Behind Smarter Subsidence Risk Assessment
While many of us have enjoyed a dry and sunny spring this year, a distinct lack of rain does not bode well for the insurance sector and customers with properties prone to subsidence.
18th June 2025
The Administration Hub: Are your team specifically trained to work remotely?
As many of us are now having to work from our own homes, it has become the norm, bringing many mutual benefits to both employee and employer. Despite the surprising benefits that working in the comfort of our own homes has brought, one question that should be asked by many businesses; Have we trained our...
10th June 2025
Navigating Regulatory Complexity: How Forbes Solicitors LLP Strengthens the MGAA Community
In a sector as dynamic and regulated as the Managing General Agents (MGA) market, legal, regulatory, and compliance excellence is not a luxury — it’s a necessity. At Forbes Solicitors, we understand that MGAs sit at a critical intersection of underwriting ambition, delegated authority, and regulatory accountability. As proud new members of the Managing General...
10th June 2025
MGAA Announces Shortlist for 2025 Awards, Celebrating the Industry’s Best and Brightest
The Managing General Agents’ Association (MGAA) is delighted to announce the shortlist for the highly anticipated MGAA Awards 2025. This year’s awards continue the tradition of recognising the excellence, innovation, and impact of our members across all areas of the insurance market and offer a platform for recognising forward-thinking initiatives. With a record number of...
2nd June 2025
Confident insurance decisions built on Ordnance Survey Data
For a specialist insurer like Hiscox, understanding the location of valuable assets is essential for confident decision-making. As an insurance provider for high net-worth customers, understanding the location of assets such as precious artworks iscrucial to offer policies that bring both cost-savings and peace of mind for customers, as well as competitive premiums.
20th May 2025
Stand Out to Succeed: Differentiation in a Crowded Market
MGAs are often touted as the home of innovation in the insurance industry. They are not beholden to legacy technology, can act quickly to implement change, and offer a service to their capacity providers by giving access to something unique – a niche vertical, a new product, or a previously untried market.
16th May 2025
Prevent and protect – why AXA Commercial is putting the emphasis on education
Prevent and protect – why AXA Commercial is putting the emphasis on education
13th May 2025
The Future Broker: Embracing MGA Partnerships for Service, Quality, Speed, and Tech Innovation
As the insurance landscape continues to evolve, a trend is emerging among brokers, particularly those from the next generation. More and more brokers are turning to Managing General Agencies (MGAs) for their insurance needs, drawn by the promise of superior service, quality products, swift transactions, and innovative technology solutions. This deep dive explores the driving...
5th May 2025
Surviving BIBA – tops tips from AXA Commercial’s Director of Schemes & Delegated Authorities
Surviving BIBA – tops tips from AXA Commercial’s Director of Schemes & Delegated Authorities By: Joel Markham With the BIBA conference fast approaching, I thought I’d share some tips and advice on how to survive the two-day marathon. It’s the biggest general insurance event in the UK calendar and is always worth attending, but for...
28th April 2025
PFAS claims in the UK: what might insurers expect
PFAS claims in the UK: what might insurers expect Developments around per- and poly fluoroalkyl substances – PFAS – are being very closely observed by insurers at the moment. Human activity has given rise to widespread PFAS contamination in our environment and those that have played a role in creating this state of affairs and/or...
21st March 2025
Why climate change is more than just a weather issue
Author: Dougie Barnett, Director of Commercial Customer Risk Management and Sustainability, AXA UK It’s hard to ignore the growing frequency of extreme weather in the UK. Already there have been five named storms in the current season, which began in September 2024, and the previous 12 months saw a dozen storms batter the UK. The...
18th March 2025
Showcase Your Membership with the MGAA logo
We’re happy to share our refreshed MGAA logo - designed to help you proudly showcase your membership and demonstrate your commitment to industry excellence. Displaying the MGAA logo reinforces your organisation’s credibility, highlights your alignment with industry best practices, and strengthens your position as a trusted partner in the MGA sector.
26th February 2025
History of the MGAA
This webinar provides a fascinating exploration of the UK MGA sector, starting with Reg Brown, founder of the Managing General Agents’ Association (MGAA) and representative of the Insurance Museum, who shared insights into the MGAA's origins and its early vision.
12th November 2024
Legacy Builders: The Importance of Leaders Passing Down Wisdom to the Next Generation
In the fast-paced world of insurance, where change is constant and complexity is the norm, the role of experienced leaders cannot be overstated. These seasoned professionals, particularly within Managing General Agencies (MGAs), not only drive their companies forward but also play a crucial role in shaping the future of the industry itself.
1st October 2024
The Importance of Networking in the Insurance Industry: Deep Dive Focusing on MGAs and Next-Gen Professionals
The Importance of Networking in the Insurance Industry: Deep Dive Focusing on MGAs and Next-Gen Professionals
28th August 2024
The Power of Partnerships: Strengthening the MGA Ecosystem for the Next Generation
MGAs and Insurance Carriers: The relationship between MGAs and insurance carriers is fundamental. MGAs bring specialised expertise and a focus on niche markets, while carriers provide the necessary underwriting capacity and financial backing.
3rd July 2024
Next Gen Insights Series
The Next Gen Committee launched the first session in their Insights Series, which aims to delve into different topics the next generation are interested in. The first session, hosted by Next Gen’s sponsor AXA XL, dove into the world of War and Terrorism insurance.
2nd May 2024
Empowering the Next Generation of Insurance: The Impact of Mentoring
Launched last March, MGAA NextGen initiated its mentoring program and has just announced its second cohort. In the fast-paced realm of insurance, supporting new talent isn't just beneficial – it's essential for long-term success. That's why organisations like the Managing General Agents' Association (MGAA), through its NextGen initiative, are turning to mentorship as a key strategy to empower the next generation of insurance professionals.
15th April 2024