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We’re delighted to announce that Earnix, a global provider of AI-driven decisioning solutions for insurance, has become a Corporate Member of LMF – London Market Forums. We’re pleased to welcome the team to our thriving London Market community.

With a strong track record in personal and commercial lines, Earnix is expanding its focus in the specialty and London markets. Their platform supports real-time, data-driven decisioning across the insurance lifecycle, helping insurers navigate increasing complexity and digital change. Having Earnix in the LMF community brings fresh insight into how AI and advanced technologies can support the Market’s evolution.

We’re pleased to share that Dun & Bradstreet has joined LMF – London Market Forums – as a Corporate Member. We welcome the team to our growing London Market community and look forward to their contributions to the exchange of ideas and collaboration across the Market.

Dun & Bradstreet provides business decisioning data and analytics used by insurance companies to support activity across the insurance value chain. From market segmentation and intelligence to underwriting, pricing, and compliance, their data and solutions are used by insurers and brokers to support both everyday operations and broader transformation efforts.

We’re delighted to announce that Mark Wilding, Digital Product Development Specialist at AEGIS London, is the winner of our London Market Quiz, which featured in a recent edition of LMF Engage – our monthly publication for members.

The six-question challenge tested participants’ knowledge of EC3 and was open exclusively to professionals working across the London Market—underwriters, brokers, MGAs, Lloyd’s, and market trade associations. Everyone who got all six questions correct was entered into a prize draw, with one winner receiving a dinner for two at a top London restaurant.

We’re delighted to announce that Buckhill has become a Corporate Member of LMF – London Market Forums – we welcome the team to our thriving London Market community.

Buckhill’s award winning technology platform, which is already integrated with key market technologies including Whitespace, WCL and Fusion by Amarillo Technologies, supports the full insurance lifecycle—from underwriting through to claims—helping brokers and carriers simplify operations and improve service delivery. Their modular, API-led architecture resonates with the need for flexible and scalable digital solutions across the market. Having firms such as Buckhill, within the LMF community, brings great value to our significant practitioner membership and enriches the collaborative discussions throughout the year.

With the 8th LMF Market People Awards 2025 just weeks away, the team at LMF is working hard to make sure the night is nothing short of spectacular. The event takes place on Thursday 26th June 2025 at the beautiful Plaisterers’ Hall, and while the evening will be full of celebration and fun, we wanted to share what’s going on behind the scenes to make it an evening to remember for the 22 worthy winners and all those part of the event.

It all started last November, when Roger Oldham, LMF’s Founder and CEO, and Will, our Market Relationships Manager, began searching for the perfect venue. Finding a place that fits this year’s Great Gatsby theme — full of 1920’s style and glamour — took time, but Plaisterers’ Hall was the perfect fit.

We’re pleased to welcome Amarillo Technologies as a Corporate Member of LMF - London Market Forums.

As Delegated Authority continues to grow in the London Market, Amarillo brings valuable expertise to our LMF Community Hub members involved in this important activity. Their technology-led approach is helping insurers, MGAs, and brokers improve efficiency and manage data in smarter ways—something that resonates with many of our Practitioner Members.

At LMForums, Gen AI is the No 1 topic lighting up conversations across our Practice groups and Summits. And it’s clear why: AI isn’t just the future—it’s happening now in firms across our Market, albeit in focused areas of the business.

Our CEO, Roger Oldham, had the pleasure of joining EXL’s brilliant “AI in Action” session, diving deep into how agentic AI and EXLerate.AI are transforming specialty insurance—from underwriting & claims, to risk modelling & fraud detection. With incredible insights from Hiscox, TMK, Prudential, AWS, and Google Cloud, this was a game-changing session on how insurers can scale AI without ripping out legacy systems.

On Thursday 10th April, the London Market Forums (LMF) hosted an energising and insightful Leaders of Tomorrow (LOT) Advisory Group Workshop at Allied World’s office in the heart of EC3. The session brought together an impressive group of young professionals from across the insurance market, all with a shared ambition: to shape a future-ready educational programme that reflects the needs, challenges and aspirations of tomorrow’s leaders.

Creating a Platform That Adds Value

Facilitated by LMF’s Roger Oldham, the workshop opened with a clear goal – to co-create fresh and engaging content ideas for the upcoming LOT educational calendar, including lunchtime learning sessions and major events. Roger emphasised the value of this initiative as an opportunity to build a programme by young professionals, for young professionals, ensuring each session delivers real, actionable insight that members can take back into their day jobs.

We’re thrilled to announce that Risk Ledger has officially joined LMF - London Market Forums as a Corporate Member!

Understanding and managing supply chain security has never been more critical, when it comes to insurance and risk management professionals —and something our Practitioner Members see as a big concern, so having Risk Ledger part of LMF brings great value for everyone.

We’re excited to welcome VIPR Solutions as a LMF - London Market Forums Corporate Member!

VIPR, an award-winning provider of technology solutions for the insurance market, has joined London Market Forums (LMF) as a Corporate Member. Renowned for their innovative approach and deep market insight, VIPR supports insurers, brokers, and managing general agents with solutions that streamline delegated authority portfolio management, enhance operational efficiency, and address compliance and regulatory challenges.

In this episode of The LMF Market People Podcast, host Roger Oldham, CEO and Founder of LMF, sits down with Paul Richmond, Head of Customer Success at Novidea, to explore the critical role of data in driving customer success. They discuss how a data-driven strategy can transform customer relationships and improve efficiency within the London and specialty insurance market. Tune in to hear Paul share insights from his diverse experience, touching on the power of data to create actionable insights and improve client outcomes, and the importance of aligning business processes with data management best practices.

We are thrilled to announce that Thrive has joined LMF - London Market Forums – as a Corporate Member, bringing some incredible domain expertise in technology, cloud, transformation and cybersecurity to our growing Market hub.

Phil Cotterill, Vice President at Thrive commented:

Our Operational Efficiency Market Roundtable, in partnership with WNS, on Wednesday 10th July at The Moniker, proved to be one of our most interactive breakfasts, ever. 20 senior Market professionals gathered to discuss one of the key topics in the operations and technology arena, Gen Ai, facilitated by LMF Founder, Roger Oldham.

With contributions and insights from WNS's SVP of Data, Analytics and Ai, Aditya, we collectively discussed the state of play and adoption in the specialty Market, when it comes to Gen Ai and we looked at the opportunities, challenges and tangible benefits. Our live polling amongst the attendees at the table revealed some interesting results, which gave everyone comfort knowing that we are more or less of a similar mindset....

London Market Forums (LMF) proudly hosted the 2024 Market People Awards yesterday, celebrating the exemplary achievements and contributions of professionals within the London Insurance Market. This prestigious event, held at Merchant Taylors' Hall, recognised the outstanding efforts of individuals and teams across various sectors of the industry.

London Market Forums (LMF) proudly hosted the 2024 Market People Awards yesterday, celebrating the exemplary achievements and contributions of professionals within the London Insurance Market. This prestigious event, held at Merchant Taylors' Hall, recognised the outstanding efforts of individuals and teams across various sectors of the industry.

The latest quarterly gathering of the LMF Cyber Insurance Practice Group on 4th June, brought together a diverse array of cyber insurance professionals from the London Insurance Market, to discuss pressing issues, share insights, and foster collaboration within the market. Held with the purpose of enhancing collective understanding and response to current cyber risks, the event was marked by engaging discussions and valuable knowledge-sharing. Thanks to Ricardo Ferreira and Kash Valji from Fortinet, for sharing their insights and experience with our Group Members and to Fortinet for supporting this meeting of the Group.

Data & Analytics professionals and those with responsibility for helping to drive their firm’s data agenda, gathered for the Spring 2024 roundtable LMF Breakfast, facilitated by our Founder, Roger Oldham.

During the two hour gathering at the beautiful Ivy City Garden, Market practitioners had an open discussion about a number of areas impacting data management and strategy:

We are thrilled to announce that Denodo has joined LMF - London Market Forums as a Corporate Member. Denodo has wide-ranging domain expertise in the data management arena and their platform is a leader in data integration, management and delivery. LMF warmly welcomes Denodo to our community hub at the heart of the London Insurance Market.

Roger A. Oldham, Founder of LMF, commented:

"Systems iO brings a wealth of both insurance industry and technology expertise to the LMF - London Market Forums community hub and its growing membership. The support of firms like Systems iO, along with the domain knowledge they bring to our roundtables, summits, and publications, is much welcomed and appreciated. Our Corporate Members benefit from being at the heart of the insurance discussion, alongside our Practitioner Members. We really look forward to working with Angus, Daniel, and the team at Systems iO."

Over 70 young professionals gathered this week for the annual LMF - London Market Forums Leaders of Tomorrow conference. Our key themes for 2024 were inclusion and diversity, data and innovation and essentials for personal growth.

LMF - London Market Forums is delighted to announce that DataTick has become a Corporate Member. We welcome them to our growing London Market community hub and look forward to their participation and engagement with our Practitioner Members throughout EC3.

DataTick are a specialist, high performing Data, Analytics, and AI advisory, which transforms organisations around the world.

London Market Forums was delighted to bring so many of it’s leading Practitioner Members together for our Winter Social Drinks Party, at the exquisite Ten Trinity Square Private Members Club – thanks to the Club for accommodating us. A big thank you to WNS, a much valued Corporate Member of LMF, for supporting the evening. We really appreciated it.

Every year, LMF nominates with a charity to support and we are delighted to be working with MIND in 2023. This amazing charity was a key component of this year's Market People Awards and during this incredible evening, thanks to the generosity of the London Market Joint Ventures and of all attendees from across the Market, we raised over £10,000 for this charity.

Season's Greeting to all our friends, members and partners in the London Insurance Market and beyond, from the team at LMF - London Market Forums

During 2022 we were delighted to be able to bring so many great people together again, from almost every function across the EC3 Market, face to face and in the usual LMF way - with tons of engagement, great hospitality and with that eye for detail, only possible due to our decades of insurance knowledge.

The second meeting of the new LMF Business Architects Practice Group took place at Lloyd's and proved to be a most interesting session. Each LMF Practice Group has a blend of educational content, delivered from a subject matter expert of some kind, as well as our popular roundtable discussion, where we address a topical matter impacting the professionals around the table or the Market as a whole.

LMF is delighted to announce that NCC Group, has become a Corporate Member. We welcome them to our active London Market community hub and look forward to their participation and engagement with LMF members.

LMF Founder, Roger Oldham, was proud to be part of the Operation London Bridge project, following the sad passing of HM Queen Elizabeth II.

Practitioners from a number of Market firms gathered at One Moorgate Place for an LMF Underwriting Special Breakfast looking at the emerging use of Ai and Machine Learning in the underwriting process. Attendees heard initially from Andrew Collins, Head of Business Solutions at Earnix, who talked about some of the applicability of Ai in the insurance sector, so far, and the direction of travel. We then heard from Dr Bogdan Vrusias of Amazon Web Services about the ethics and decision making beyond the application of Ai and ML in the design of modern business systems.

LMF is delighted to announce that ACORD, the global standards-setting body for the insurance industry has today become a Corporate Member of our popular community hub. Furthermore, LMF has become a Member of ACORD.