It’s dinner time! Why not join friends and local peers at one of BIBA’s Regional Dinner’s for an evening to remember, filled with great entertainment, discussions, and networking opportunities? Attend your local annual dinner. Upcoming dates Yorkshire & Northern Annual Dinner – 26.04.2024 Anglia Summer Solstice Dinner – 20.06.2024 Merseyside Annual Dinner 17.10.24 South Wales Annual Dinner – 18.10.2024 West of England Annual Dinner – 31.10.2024 West Midlands Annual Dinner – 08.11.2024 Some pictures of previous dinners below; The post BIBA Invites You to Your Local Regional Dinner – 2024 ..read more

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Back by popular demand, David Sparkes, BIBA’s Regulation Director and Julie Comer, our Head of Compliance will be visiting members in the regions to discuss the current regulatory topics affecting insurance brokers. The forums provide an ideal opportunity for you to hear technical compliance matters broken down into plain English, to raise questions to confirm understanding, provide feedback to enable BIBA to lobby on matters of concern to you and to share views with other members responsible for compliance matters. Attendance at BIBA’s Regional Compliance Forums may count towards&nb ..read more

We are proud to have won the Specialist Coverage Award at this year’s National Insurance Awards for the help and support our online Find Insurance Service provides to those struggling to find insurance. The service helps connect customers with BIBA members to get the specialist help they need. To make our Find Insurance Service as effective as possible we need to ensure that the information and insurance classes you as a BIBA member can assist with are as up to date as possible. Being as accurate as you can with this will mean when contacted by potential customers that you are most likely able ..read more

As regulated firms receive FCA Top Up fee invoices over coming weeks, Premium Credit continues to provide a finance option enabling firms to pay in convenient monthly instalments instead of a single lump sum payment, helping to improve cash flow. Agreements, totalling over £650M have been funded by Premium Credit to date for this purpose. The FCA issues two invoices per year where total fees exceed £50,000 in the previous year, invoicing 50% of that fee payable by 1st April. Effective use of finance can be an efficient way for businesses to meet this cost. Premium Credit has been offering fina ..read more

On behalf of BIBA’s Greater Manchester Committee we would like to invite young brokers in Manchester to join us for a free series of four workshops aimed at Performance, Connect, Explore and Delivery presented by Premium Credit Ltd. These sessions are great way of achieving personal development. Please join us for just one or for all. 5 March 2024 BIBA Young Broker workshop – Sales Programme: Performance 4 April 2024 BIBA Young Broker workshop – Sales Programme: Connect 6 June 2024 BIBA Young Broker workshop – Sales Programme: Explore 22 August 2024 4 BIBA Young Broker work ..read more

The latest Gracechurch-BIBA Voice of the Broker summary Report is out now: the Report shows some positive news on service and identifies what brokers are seeing as the main challenges. The Report also shows regional service analysis for the first time plus coverage of how the survey is making impact and a spotlight on some of the best insurer teams in the UK.  To get the latest Report and support the survey please see the following Links: Join the Broker Panel Latest Report More information on this collaboration here. The post The latest Gracechurch-BIBA Voice of the Broker Report appe ..read more

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In January 2023 Abdul Anwar created a dating app for his fellow students at Loughborough University. Abdul explained: “I needed professional indemnity insurance as well as cyber cover to protect the app and the various data that is collected. Noone was taking me seriously at first because I’m young and a student, but BIBA’s Find Insurance Service put me in touch with LBH Insurance and I had cover within five minutes. They made it very simple”. The app LboroCircle® has now grown dramatically and has expanded to 200 other universities in a total of three countries. The post CASE STUDY: Helping ..read more

Alex Blackett set up AB Controls and Robotics a few months ago, providing freelance robotics automation for large machinery. After searching online and speaking to a provider that couldn’t help, Alex was directed to BIBA’s Find Insurance Service who put him in touch with specialist broker LBH Insurance. Alex said: “I work with large factories and it’s a must-have to get the right liability insurance in place before I can even get a foot in the door. There were some providers who just couldn’t offer cover, probably due to limited knowledge about the risks of a large automated robot. Speaking to ..read more