Willis Towers Watson and SSP partner to optimise insurance pricing

Insurance software provider SSP and Willis Towers Watson will work to optimise real-time pricing and time to market for insurance companies.

Broker Willis Towers Watson’s has partnered with insurance software provider SSP to optimise real-time pricing and time to market for insurance companies.

SSP will join WTW's global Radar Live collaborator programme to improve its capability to derive insights from various data sources and to deploy machine learning models from a single platform.

The programme will also allow SSP customers to benefit from the faster implementations of Radar Live .

Adrian Coupland, managing director, customer and marketing at SSP, said: “Our SSP Insurance Platform is a cloud native platform comprising a single suite of modules and components which support our Broking, MGA and Insurer customers globally. As an open platform, we provide APIs or 'connections' to a wider ecosystem so that our customers benefit from a 'best of breed' approach. SSP was the first software vendor in the UK to connect its multi-award winning rating, pricing and data enrichment module SSP Intelligent Quotes to WTW Radar Live for the benefit of our mutual customers.”

Andrew Harley, director, insurance consulting and technology, Willis Towers Watson, said: “We are delighted that SSP has joined our global Radar Live collaboration programme. With data and advanced analytics as the frontiers of change in the insurance sector, companies must migrate their operations to connected, flexible and agile systems capable of creating competitive advantage and providing a greater understanding of the business they write. SSP’s international success in delivering a flexible open platform for insurers, MGAs and intermediaries will mean this collaboration will drive significant value to our mutual customers across the world.”