Sabre reports 26.2% profit growth as GWP dips

Sabre Insurance Group reported a 26.2% increase in profit before tax to £25.5m, despite a decline in gross written premiums, according to its 2025 half-year report. GWP topped £100.3m on 30 June 2025, down from £125.7m for the same period last year, with combined operating ratio dropping by 3.4 percentage points to 82.6%. Broken down … Read more

What is HDMI (High-Definition Multimedia Interface)?

HDMI (High-Definition Multimedia Interface) is a proprietary specification designed to ensure compatibility between video and audio devices over a single digital interface. The specification is used for consumer electronics — including high-definition and ultrahigh-definition TVs, DVD and Blu-ray players, game consoles, streaming devices, soundbars, laptops and PCs — as well as for automotive and commercial … Read more

Rakuten selects Cisco, Nokia, F5 as partners for 5G SA network

Rakuten Mobile has selected Cisco, Nokia and F5 to support its 5G SA network in Japan offering cloud-native, artificial intelligence (AI)-driven systems to simplify operations, reduce costs and deliver better customer experiences. The move comes in response to the global acceleration of 5G standalone (SA) and cloud-native in a bid to drive business transformation, cut costs and pursue modernisation … Read more

Could the MGA explosion be slowed down by an indifference to claims?

MGAs have become all the rage, with a growth predicated by a rise in fronter and insurer capital/capacity and broker belief that they offer greater front-end service. However, are strains starting to show at the back end when it comes to the moment of truth, the claim? Saxon East investigates. Source link

Euro regulators approve satellite to low-power device comms standard

In a move that the industry’s technical trade association says will reshape the non-terrestrial network (NTN) landscape, the Electronic Communications Committee (ECC) of the European Conference of Postal and Telecommunications Administrations (CEPT) has officially confirmed the regulatory framework enabling satellite-to-low power device communication with satellites (LPD-S) communications in the short-range device (SRD) 862-870MHz frequency … Read more