@jacob_abboud

Leader and CIO in Financial Services & Insurance. Digital/AgileTransformation expert with Interest in Data, IOT, AI and Insurtech

 London, England
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Joined January 2012
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CMA to investigate Aviva’s £3.7bn Direct Line deal

The UK’s competition watchdog has begun an investigation into insurance giant Aviva’s proposed £3.7bn acquisition of Direct Line. The Competition and Markets Authority said it had commenced its phase...

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Most Popular AI Tools – February 2025 Top 5 by visits: 1.ChatGPT – 5.2B 2.Canva – 996M 3.DeepSeek – 793M 4.Google Translate – 623M 5.Character ai– 223M Not just chatbots—AI creativity, translation, and even background removal are booming. Full list below. #AI #GenAI #ProductivityTools #FutureOfWork
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Lloyd’s of London expects £1.8bn hit from Californian wildfires

Lloyd’s of London, the historic insurance market, has reported a 6.5 per cent increase in premiums written for 2024. In a trading update published this morning ahead of its full results, which are...

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'Ghost broking': Reports of scammers selling fake car insurance rise by 30% over five years

Ghost brokers often sell false policies to drivers on social media, manipulate information given to genuine insurance companies, or take out insurance and cancel it straight away. This leaves people...

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Search Engine Market Share fuelling the antitrust debate about Google
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FOS reports dip in H1 insurance claims insurancetoday.co.uk/i202410…

FOS reports dip in H1 insurance claims

The Financial Ombudsman Service received 22,489 new general insurance/protection claims in the first half of 2024. This was down on the 24,496 received in the same period the previous year. The...

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Very interesting... news.uk.cityam.com/story/227…

Government set to bring buy-now pay-later firms under FCA regulation

The Treasury is set to unveil its plans for buy-now pay-later rules tomorrow in a move that could end years of uncertainty surrounding the regulation of the sector, City AM has learned.

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Starling Bank fined £29m for ‘shockingly lax’ financial crime controls

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has fined digital challenger bank Starling £28.96m for failings related to its financial crime controls that the City regulator called “shockingly lax”.

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Good move...Axa offers digital claims notification insurancetoday.co.uk/i202409…

Axa offers digital claims notification

Axa UK has improved its online capabilities and made it possible for customers to notify claims digitally for losses on their motor and home policies. The insurer said the move would create conveni...

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Interesting but needs elaboration...
Ronald van Loon
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Top 10 Strategic #Technology Trends for 2024 by @Khulood_Almani #GenerativeAI #Technology #TechForGood #MachineLearning #ArtificialIntelligence cc: @HaroldSinnott @iainljbrown @yuhelenyu
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Citi COO relieved of responsibility for data overhaul following $136 million fine finextra.com/newsarticle/447… via @Finextra

Citi COO shares responsibility for data overhaul following $136 million fine

Citigroup is stripping chief operating officer Anand Selva of his full responsibility for data compliance after the bank was hit with $136 million in fines for its failure to address long-standing...

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Bain Capital reportedly weighing sale of Direct Line rival esure

Private equity giant Bain Capital is reportedly considering selling British motor and home insurer esure in the latest sign of M&A in the sector.

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I am attending BIG DATA LDN next week invt.io/1txbkufnz5t #BigDataLDN

I've registered for Big Data LDN 2024 at London Olympia on 18-19 September.

Register Free NOW!

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The History of #AI by @ParmidaBeigi #BigData #ArtificialIntelligence #ML #MI #DataScience #MachineLearning cc: @pascal_bornet @maxjcm @ogrisel
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Allianz highlights H1 fraud trends which are on the rise - reliance on technology/data/AI is paramount insurancetoday.co.uk/i202409…

Allianz highlights H1 fraud trends

Allianz UK says its fraud teams have seen a marked increase in fraudulent noise induced hearing loss and fake or cloned businesses claims coming through in the first half of 2024. The insurer said it...

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A big jump in the right direction news.uk.cityam.com/story/225…

Lloyd’s of London reports ‘superb’ first half but warns of digitisation delays

Lloyd’s of London, the storied insurance market and one of the world’s largest providers of reinsurance, has reported a jump in profit today but warned its landmark digitisation project was taking...

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Great #Instech event at #Google offices in London last night. Automation of ingestion of UW Workflow for commercial insurance.
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UK insurtech hits milestone insurancetoday.co.uk/i202409…

UK insurtech hits milestone

Digital broker Simply Business, which was established in 2005, has announced that its customer base has surpassed the one million milestone. The firm has more than doubled its customer base in the...

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