by Josh | Oct 22, 2026 | Uncategorised
On 13 October 2026, MatBlas Founder and Managing Director Dr Ana Mata PhD, ACAS, joined the African Actuarial Development Academy (AADA) to deliver an online Lunch & Learn exploring the fundamentals of non-life insurance pricing. Titled Cracking the Pricing Code:...
by Ana Mata | Oct 14, 2026 | Uncategorised
If two underwriting teams assessed a similar risk, could you explain why their technical prices differed? Would the difference reflect the risk itself, a deliberate choice of methodology or simply different assumptions in their spreadsheets? For heads of pricing,...
by Ana Mata | Sep 21, 2026 | Guides
Choosing reinsurance pricing software can feel complicated, particularly for teams that have relied on spreadsheets and established processes for many years. Providers may use different terminology, promote different features and offer different ideas about what a...
by Ana Mata | Jul 21, 2026 | Guides
Generalised Linear Models, usually known as GLMs, have played a central role in insurance pricing for decades. They help insurers understand how different risk characteristics affect expected claims and convert those relationships into practical rating factors....
by Ana Mata | Apr 22, 2026 | Guides
Many insurance professionals assume that actuarial training is only really relevant for actuaries. In reality, that is no longer the case. Modern insurance businesses rely heavily on data, technical insight and cross-functional collaboration. Pricing decisions affect...
by Ana Mata | Feb 20, 2026 | Guides
Reinsurance pricing has a reputation for being quite complex and heavily dependent on how it’s always been done in the page. To some extent, that reputation is earned. Treaty structures can be very complicated, multi-line, multi-currency and packed with contract...
by Ana Mata | Jan 23, 2026 | Guides, Presentations
Fifteen years ago, “InsurTech” was barely a phrase. Yet the frustrations actuaries felt were already familiar: too many spreadsheets, too many versions and not enough time left for judgement. Way back in 2017 I presented a teaching deck called The Role of Commercial...
by Ana Mata | Jan 15, 2026 | Guides
The insurance industry doesn’t stand still. New regulations arrive, data sources multiply and technology reshapes how work gets done. The people who progress aren’t simply the most experienced, they’re the ones who stay up to date with the constantly shifting...
by Ana Mata | Dec 18, 2025 | Guides
Every treaty season, reinsurance teams open the same sprawling spreadsheet libraries, juggle versions with names like “Pricing_v12_FINAL_final.xlsx”, and spend late nights stitching together triangles, rate changes and limits profiles. Spreadsheets have served the...
by Ana Mata | Oct 22, 2025 | Uncategorised
Did you know that in 2009 MatBlas developed the first cloud-based fully digital end-to-end reinsurance pricing platform? This was all before InsurTech was even a word! Being first to market is never easy. But being first when the market isn’t ready? That’s even...
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