Uniquely, Polaris is 100% owned by the UK General Insurance industry. Since 1994, we’ve been supporting the UK & Irish markets to trade digitally. Our purpose is to provide core and widely used digital trading technology that enables the industry to build, control and distribute its insurance products efficiently and effectively across Personal and Commercial Lines.
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The insurance market uses ProductWriter to rate and underwrite over 250 million quotes a day, generating over £10bn GWP annually.
ProductWriter supports the most advanced rating, enrichment and machine learning requirements for over 80 insurers & MGAs.
It also provides the freedom to build any product, control and manage your distribution. Users have the flexibility to easily maintain and update products.
Join over 100 other organisations in building products quicker and sending and receiving data in a consistent manner using the industry’s digital trading Standards. The Standards are built and evolved via extensive collaboration with the industry and cover all major general insurance products.
Our widely used Commercial lines solution, that enables trading of over 550,000 policies, with over £430m GWP annually.
Insurers and MGAs can widen their distribution and reach thousands of brokers with their products via just one, secure integration.
imarket is free for brokers to use and enables them to generate comparative quotations from their back office system.
Facilitates brokers to chat digitally with insurers.
With over 30,000 chats per month Live-Chat has proved to be a popular and preferred method for brokers to clarify queries with insurers.
Chats are routed to relevant insurer departments from within brokers digital platforms so questions are answered efficiently. A transcript is sent after every chat providing insurers and brokers with better contract certainty.
Powering over 250 million quotes a day and generating over £10bn GWP annually integrate the ProductWriter rating engine into your systems to be able to receive and adopt insurer and MGA products.
You will be able to support insurers who require the most advanced rating, enrichment and machine learning capabilities already used by over 80 organisations.
Join over 2,000 brokers using imarket for comparative quotes generated straight from broker back end systems. It’s free for brokers. Register your organisation’s access below.
Facilitates brokers to chat digitally with insurers.
With over 30,000 chats per month Live-Chat has proved to be a popular and preferred method for brokers to clarify queries with insurers.
Chats are routed to relevant insurer departments from within brokers digital platforms so questions are answered efficiently. A transcript is sent after every chat providing insurers and brokers with better contract certainty.
Our high speed and trusted rating engine, powering over 250 million quotes a day and generating over £10bn GWP annually, gives you the control to receive products from insurers and distribute them through any channel.
Join over 100 other organisations in building products quicker and sending and receiving data in a consistent manner using the industry’s digital trading Standards. The Standards are built and evolved via extensive collaboration with the industry and cover all major general insurance products.
imarket can help solution providers connect Commercial Lines insurers and MGAs into wider software house distribution, accessing 2,000+ brokers through a single secure connection, enabling your customers to deploy their product
consistently and cost effectively to the market.
Join over 100 other insurance organisations in building products quicker using Polaris Standards code lists.
The industry agreed sets of values are used to build data capture forms and are also used in insurance transactions from multiple insurers. We have over 350 lists covering all major products.
We are entirely owned by leading UK insurer and broker organisations. Our Board of directors is comprised of senior representatives from some of our shareholding organisations.
Having this ownership model means that the work we do is directly driven by and for the industry to continuously improve digital trading.
From defining and delivering digital trading technology for the UK General Insurance industry to record usage of our products in recent years, see how Polaris was established and how we have evolved over the years.
Polaris sits at the heart of digital trading within the General Insurance industry.
We exist for the benefit of the industry and are trusted to support the evolution of digital trading.
We're big on collaboration. We bring together views from the industry and combine our knowledge, financial investment and technology enhancements to help the market innovate.
We are always seeking opportunities to enhance digital trading, improving outcomes for insurers, MGAs, brokers and customers. We develop and manage several proofs of concept, bringing ideas to life and encouraging digital trading advancements.
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