News analysis: Why are brokers offshoring to South Africa?

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Complete Cover recently became the latest personal lines broker to offshore some of its operations to South Africa. Saxon East explores the attraction for intermediaries in outsourcing to a country over 6000 miles away from the UK

These are tough times for personal lines brokers.

First came the Covid-pandemic, knocking sales as motorists went into lockdown.

Then the Financial Conduct Authority hit them with a demand for fair value on products, with lucrative premium finance set to take a big hit (see pages 6 to 10).

Amid this storm, one broker thinks it has the answer.

As revealed by Insurance Age, Complete Cover Group is making a ‘significant reduction’ in the UK workforce with a chunk of customer-facing activities

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