Igor Best-Devereux: chief executive, eReinsure

Mr Devereux believes that the US based eReinsure has a lot to offer the London market because of what it has achieved elsewhere. He says that his platform already works with a number of US companies to bring business into Lloyd’s

The short history of insurance and reinsurance electronic processing platforms, which began in the early nineties with projects like LIMNET, has up to now been dominated by one theme: the struggle to survive. It is, not surprisingly, a history littered with casualties: FacWorld, Myreinsurance, eFac, Smartfac, ifac, Reway, Risk2Risk, Elrix, Risk Transfer Exchange and, much more recently, Inreon and Kinnect.