Partners' Chat - Summer Special: Robin Merttens and Matthew Grant (149)

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4.8 • 50 Ratings

🗓️ 1 August 2021

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Recorded after the InsTech London Summer Party, our first public event since Covid-19 restrictions were lifted, Matthew and Robin catch up for their quarterly partners’ chat. The conversation covers their pick of the latest insurance and insurtech news stories, reaction to our report on embedded insurance, and even Robin’s restaurant recommendations. Talking points include: Face-to-face events and our return to The Steel Yard Insurtech investment and lessons learnt from the last five years Embedded insurance opportunities The rise of the tech-enabled MGA Climate change, ESG and the demand for data The InsTech London report, Insurance: to Embed, or not to Embed, is available to download for free from the InsTech London website. If you like what you're hearing, please leave us a review on whichever platform you use, or contact Matthew Grant on LinkedIn. Sign up to the InsTech London newsletter for a fresh view on the world every Wednesday morning. Continuing Professional Development - Learning Objectives InsTech London is accredited by The Chartered Insurance Institute (CII). By listening to any InsTech London podcast or reading the accompanying transcript, you can claim up to 0.5 hours towards the CII member CPD scheme. To claim 0.5 hours for this podcast, go to the Episode 149 page of the InsTech London website, or email [email protected].

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0:00.0	Okay, are you ready?
0:02.0	No, I've just got to find that thing which I've got here and I can't get it.
0:06.0	Yeah, I've got it. Far away.
0:08.0	For those of you who are regular listeners, you will know that this is a bit different from
0:22.6	our usual interviews.
0:24.0	And if this is your first time listening, well, I am delighted you could join us.
0:27.9	This is Matthew Grant, one of the partners at INSTECH London.
0:31.5	Robin Mertens and I are back with our quarterly chat, but if this is not your thing, well,
0:35.7	we've over 150 excellent guests to listen
0:38.6	to in our back catalogue of episodes. Now, talking about back catalogs, a special mention this
0:43.9	week for Vamsi Dan Turty, listening in from Atlanta, Georgia, who contacted me to say he only
0:49.4	discovered the INSTEC podcast two weeks ago, but has been binge listening since then. Thank you,
0:54.0	Vamsey. And in fact, thanks to all of you that have been telling me you've been listening and what you think. in-stack podcast two weeks ago, but has been binge listening since then. Thank you, Vamsi,
0:54.4	and in fact, thanks to all of you that have been telling me you've been listening and what you
0:58.2	think. Well, you've got 30 minutes of Robin and I coming up, so I'm keeping today's introduction short.
1:03.3	Here we go.
1:13.6	Morning, Robin. Everything okay with you? It is today. Yesterday I was slightly hung over after our party. I got over excited seeing everyone again. But now I'm right back to my freshest best for you today.
1:25.6	Well, good. And have you had lunch yet? Because we're
1:27.9	recording this at lunchtime on a Friday and nothing worse than standing in between Robin
1:31.4	Mertons and his lunch. Well, you have made that mistake. I'll forgive you. And I've got to
1:36.8	carry tonight. So I'm holding back. Yeah, we had our party last week. I was just thinking
1:42.1	about that, we talk about talking to 200 companies a month.
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