Ep259 Mark Allan Ki: A chance to stand out from the crowd

As the global subscription market digitises, the roles of market
leaders and followers are becoming much more clearly demarcated.
There are businesses designed to be leaders with large
investments in class-specific expertise and specialist
distribution relationships who are looking to align followers and
consortium partners behind them. There is also a parallel class
of follow-only underwriters looking to support and amplify those
same leaders. It’s a modern twist on the oldest symbiotic
relationship in the subscription market. Ki is an example of a
wholly digital business that is looking to become the ultimate
following market and this expansive conversation with its CEO
Mark Allan sketches out much of what the future of London
underwriting is going to look like. Ki has been a first-mover in
the world of algorithmic underwriting and has built a
billion-dollar business that has matured, become independent and
is now offering to share its expertise as a tech partner for
underwriters and brokers alike. Mark knows more than any of his
peers about what is achievable and what is likely to change in
the London Market of the future. On the basis of this
conversation, the future of the market should be very bright, as
it  becomes much faster, more agile and responsive to
brokers and clients, while at the same time becoming much more
efficient and productive and a genuine alternative home for the
sort of business that has traditionally only been accessible to
local market underwriters around the world. It’s fascinating and
invigorating stuff. Mark answers all the big questions and many
more besides. You’ll learn a lot and the time will rush past.
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