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COVEA INSURANCE

“ If you don ' t put the hard yards in , if you don ’ t take that fight and that mantle forward , then nothing , nothing ever changes ”

GRAEME HOWARD CHIEF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY OFFICER , COVEA INSURANCE
spot that I felt was ripe for disruption and I felt it was massively underserved from a digital perspective . There wasn ' t really a huge amount of change going on . You could see what happened within the banking industry and , and how much
the digitization of banking had made an impact . So I was keen to try and find a role in an insurance company .”
That was when Graeme first encountered Covea Insurance : “ We had a discussion and I think it was interesting that they were of the right sort of size to be able to implement a strategy . The leadership team were keen to do something different and it fitted with my aspirations and desire to drive forward .”
Policy API and pushing for insurance-as-a-service Howard is very excited about the potential of Covea Insurance ’ s policy platform and the benefits it can bring to the sector as a whole .
“ You can see where kind of open banking has gone with the data share and capabilities , So we are - particularly Neil Walker , our Head of Technology - helping
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