Barbican is wholly committed to supporting Lloyd’s priorities in terms of underwriting discipline and sustained performance over the insurance cycle. We therefore focus unwaveringly on underwriting discipline and make it our goal to achieve and exceed Lloyd’s minimum standards and guidelines.

By doing so, we can respond quickly to market-turning events, manage our aggregate risk exposure and ultimately, ensure that our policyholders are well-protected. At the same time, our Divisional Managers take an analytical approach to managing their portfolios with the ultimate objective of minimising their combined ratio and underwriting for profit.

Barbican has put in place a top-level underwriting management team to guide and back up our underwriting divisions. Mark Harrington, the Chief Underwriting Officer and Active Underwriter for Syndicate 1955, is joined by John Pilkington as Deputy Active Underwriter.