SME Premiums Set To Rise Brokers can breathe a little easier with an increase in SME insurance premiums showing up for the first time in the past ten financial quarters. The Quarterly BizCover Small Business Insurance Index has shown that Australian SMEs may have seen the end of declining insurance premiums, with an increase of […]

Embarrassing And Desrtuctive. The Ashley Madison cyber breach was the world’s largest of 2015. All data breaches are scary, but some just have that extra scream factor.In arguably the most embarrassing data breach of the bunch, a group calling itself “The Impact Team” stole 37 million records from the adultery website , including many records that […]

Some Help From Austbrokers Terrace To Our Readers When your Google Apps account password leaks, the battle begins to minimize data loss and regain control of the account. Unfortunately, you can’t undo a password leak—once it’s out, it’s out. You must assume your account data can be exposed. Work through the following steps with your […]

We Don’t Make This Stuff Up! The Australian Cybercrime Online Reporting Network (ACORN) revealed that it received more than 39,000 reports of cybercrime throughout 2015. ACORN continues to boost law enforcement efforts as it provides an easy way for those affected by cybercrime to report their issues but cyber threats are expected to increase over […]

Telematics Isn’t Going Away The impact of telematics on the Australian industry will continue to grow in 2016 as “momentum is picking up” for the technology. A recent survey run by Insurance Business found that 42% of those surveyed believe that telematics will have a limited impact on the Australian insurance industry this year, with […]

‘The Wolf Of Wall Street Revisited? Revolutionary start-up company Zenefits has been hailed as the top insurance industry disruptor by industry commentators, and boasts a value of $4.5 billion just three years after launching. But the incredible success of the cloud-based HR software company, which makes its money on broker commissions for health insurance it […]

Aussie Brokers Breathe A Sigh Of Relief Reports indicate that Google is calling it quits on the insurance business in the United States and United Kingdom. Just over one year after the search engine titan announced it was launching an online comparison service for car insurance in the United States, partners with Google Compare say […]

The evolution continues … Austbrokers Holdings Limited (ASX:AUB) has changed its group company name to AUB Group Limited. The change was approved at the Austbrokers Holdings Annual General Meeting on Thursday 26 November, and is effective from today, Monday 30 November. AUB Group (formerly Austbrokers Holdings) CEO and Managing Director Mark Searles said “We’ve evolved […]

Speak to the team at Austbrokers Terrace in respect to all things cyber related It’s well documented that the effects of cyber bullying can take their toll emotionally, but what about financially? Extreme forms of online trolling such as swatting, where a harasser fakes an emergency to get police to raid a victim’s home, can […]

Exciting Times! To our many existing clients, any potential clients, our business partners and providers, and anyone who has played a role in the success of Austbrokers Terrace, we wish you all the best for the upcoming Christmas/ NewYear period and beyond! Much has occurred in 2015, thankfully most of it good, in what has […]