<p>In today’s update: Biden joins forces with business leaders to tackle cyber crime, T-mobile reports data breach and people moves at Chubb and Aon.

Simon Waller, Executive Chair at JBA Risk Management, explains changes in the insurance industry to help manage flood risk and how global warming plays a part in increasing the risk. JBA Risk Management is a leading provider of flood risk data that uses pioneering science to stay at the forefront of flood modelling innovation.

In this update: Willis chooses its next CEO, AXA sells its business in Singapore and Fidelis makes ESG hire.

In this News update, Jenna Dagenhart discusses Marsh's team up with Amazon, more than 2.5 million American’s sign up to cheap health insurance and Zurich reports strong results for the first half of 2021.

Jim Dart, Managing Director at dart Compliance discusses the biggest challenges with the new regulations and how it could affect smaller brokers.

How can you build relationships and explain complex risk in a remote world? Video has become the most powerful tool for businesses to showcase their expertise and engage with clients. But how do you best use video as an MGA?

The Aon/Willis merger is off. Both parties have agreed to go their separate ways after reaching an impasse with the US Department of Justice. Aon announced that the $30bn deal had collapsed in a statement released on Monday the 26th of July. The broker confirmed that it will be paying the $1bn dollar break-up fee to Willis Towers Watson.

In this update: flooding causes devastation in Western Europe, UK pub leader takes insurers to court, and reduced Covid restrictions leave the UK vulnerable to terrorism.

On today’s update: Zurich joins The Hedron Network, a telling off for Lloyds Banking Group and a positive development for the Aon/Willis merger.

Paul Donnelly, Executive Vice President, EMEA, Munich Re, discusses any dangers in oversimplifying underwriting, who is responsible for the underwriting itself and whether new technologies may impact jobs.