Determined to write delegated business better, Ben Laidlaw joined Nick Tye and Jacqui Ferrier to found Carbon Underwriting.

Carbon Underwriting is a Lloyd’s Syndicate MGU that provides shareable underwriting conclusions on its Graphene administration system.

The company has matured since its conception in 2018, and Ben discusses navigating ‘Decile 10’ to gaining approval for Carbon’s second syndicate earlier this year, which will exclusively underwrite US business.

Key talking points:

The story behind the creation of Carbon Underwriting and growth in the Lloyd’s market
The thinking behind the second syndicate
US business - why enter a competitive market?
Smart syndication
Graphene - who built it and what’s so good about it?
Plans for the rest of this year and 2025
On being Private Equity owned and waxing lyrical

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