Press Releases

POP Group Holdings is delighted to have been recognised in The Australian Financial Review’s Fast Global list as Australia’s second highest achieving company for international growth.   Fast Global celebrates Australian companies that are delivering real commercial growth in international markets, calculated on growth in revenue generated overseas over the past three years.   Read an […]

Today, POP Group Holdings celebrates its five-year anniversary! In this time, we’ve developed from a start-up company to a growth-stage global boutique M&A and specialist insurance group, enabled by data and technology, with our first external investor joining the share register recently.   We managed to achieve a few firsts: Fusion was the 1st APAC […]

Experienced C-Suite leader will spearhead the Group’s vision to revolutionise the M&A and specialty insurance marketplace SINGAPORE, 1 June 2023: Pop Group Holdings (“POP”), a leading investor in M&A and specialist, data & technology-enabled insurance businesses, today announces the appointment of Sergei Korol as Chief Operations & Finance Officer. Based in Singapore, Korol will be […]

George Apperly – io.insure Josh Cowen – Fusion   The world of mergers and acquisitions is constantly evolving. The process, speed of execution and complexities of transactions has only increased over time. Few young M&A practitioners now would believe that a data room was not so long ago an actual physical room full of boxes […]

London, 13th February 2023 M&A tech and InsurTech firm io.insure, the world’s first online mergers and acquisitions (M&A) insurance marketplace for SME transactions, today announces its launch in the UK with the appointment of George Apperly as managing partner. Based in London, Apperly will be responsible for the platform’s growth in the UK SME M&A […]

Experienced FinTech and M&A leader to guide firm’s growth in APAC Singapore, 31 Jan 2023 – M&A Tech and InsurTech firm io.insure – creator of ‘Mio’, the world’s first online mergers and acquisitions (M&A) insurance marketplace for small and medium-sized business (SME) transactions – has appointed Ian Hutchinson as Senior Partner in Asia-Pacific (APAC). Based […]

David Rogers, Co-Founder and Executive Partner of POP Holdings (including Fusion and io.insure), spoke to Seyfarth Shaw LLP in its “Into the Breach” podcast about an innovative approach to underwrite Representations and Warranties Insurance (RWI). With an emphasis on technology and efficiency, io.insure recently launched Mio© – the world’s first online M&A insurance product for […]

Sydney, London, New York, Chicago, December 7, 2022: Fusion Specialty, a leading specialist M&A managing general agent (MGA), and io.insure, the M&A tech pioneer, today announced the global launch of Mio, the first M&A insurance online for small- to mid-sized businesses, to address the significant risk protection gap in the SME market. Backed by A […]

POP Holdings Group is honoured to be recognised as one of Australia’s fastest growing young companies on the Australian Financial Review’s Fast Starters list for 2022.   This award win reflects POP Holdings’ organic journey of growth from the Australian headquarters in 2018, expanding across Asia, the UK, the EU and the US. POP, which […]

M&A activity is on the rise across the U.S. Check out the article linked above to learn how Representations & Warranties coverage can help protect your clients’ M&A deals. io.insure Managing Partner, Nate Stortzum, recently contributed his expertise for a timely CRC Insurance Services article, which discusses the rise in M&A activity across the U.S. and provides […]

Co-founders Killian McDermott and David Rogers are thrilled to announce that io.insure, part of Pop Holdings, is the ‘FinTech of the Year Winner’ at the prestigious 2022 Technology Scale-up Awards, with reputable sponsors such as Hamilton Locke, Grant Thornton and Ansarada, among others. The awards celebrate disruptive Australian technology businesses that demonstrate high rates of […]

  Chicago, 1st June 2022 InsurTech firm io.insure, the world’s first online mergers and acquisitions (M&A) insurance marketplace for SME transactions, today announces its launch in the US with senior level hires Nate Stortzum joining as Managing Partner – ioPartners and Gregory A. de Keersmaeker joining as Managing Partner – ioCustomer Success. The firm, part […]

Sydney, 31 January 2022 – io.insure, the world’s first online mergers and acquisitions (M&A) insurance marketplace for small and medium-sized business (SME) transactions, today announces it has launched in Australia. The io.insure marketplace is designed to bridge the significant risk protection gap in the niche M&A segment for SMEs, where there is a scarcity of […]

Katherine Simmonds appointed Managing Partner at Fusion
The M&A insurance specialist joins at a time of unprecedented growth

• Strategic partnership servicing clients in the People’s Republic of China (“PRC”) and Hong Kong
• Partnership offers warranties and indemnities (“W&I”) insurance solutions serving the Private Equity and Corporate mergers and acquisitions (“M&A”) marketplace
• Admitted W&I policy form has been pre-approved by the China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission (“CBIRC”)
• PRC W&I market is seeing an accelerated increase in demand with premium volume expanding significantly over the last three years in particular.

International private equity firms drive M&A transaction rebound in China and Hong Kong in wake of favourable regulatory changes. Demand for warranty and indemnity (W&I) insurance in China and Hong Kong was rising in the three years leading up to the coronavirus pandemic, which brought an abrupt but temporary halt to merger and acquisition (M&A) activity in the region.

The rapid recovery of M&A activity in Asia and the rise in intellectual property rights litigation are encouraging carriers to reassess their risk appetite and product offerings.

• Expansion of partnership with Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty in Asia servicing clients in Hong Kong and the PRC, Singapore and South East Asia, Korea, India and Japan.
• Partnership will offer Warranty & Indemnity (W&I) solutions serving the Private Equity and Corporate M&A marketplace
• Asian W&I market seeing increased demand with premium volume expanding significantly over the last five years.

HDI Global Specialty SE – Australia (“HDI Global Specialty”), Fusion Specialty MGA Solutions Pty Ltd. and its Authorised Representative, Fusion Specialty Insurance Pty Ltd. (collectively “Fusion”) 
HDI Global Specialty and Fusion have today announced a new underwriting agency partnership to offer additional capacity in the mergers and acquisitions (M&A) insurance market in Australia. 

Fusion Specialty MGA Solutions Pty Ltd. and its Authorised Representative, Fusion
Specialty Insurance Pty Ltd. (collectively “Fusion”), a specialty insurance MGA Platform
headquartered in Sydney, Australia, has announced that Damian Lynch has joined as
Managing Partner, Fusion Financial Lines MGA (“Fusion FL”) with immediate effect. Lynch
has also been appointed as a Partner in Fusion’s M&A Insurance MGA.

POP Insurance Holdings (POP), a specialist insurance group headquartered in Sydney, Australia, and its MGA subsidiary Fusion Specialty Insurance (Fusion), have launched a worldwide partnership with Fractal Industries, Inc., an analytics and insurtech software provider that applies artificial intelligence to solve complex, real-world problems headquartered in Reston, Virginia, USA, with operations also in the UK.

Insurers are beginning to look at the risky cross-border mergers and acquisition insurance market, particularly in the Asia-Pacific region, to gain an edge over the competition.

Zurich Australia Insurance Limited (“Zurich”) has today announced a new underwriting agency partnership that will boost its capacity in the mergers and acquisitions (M&A) insurance space.

POP Insurance Holdings (“POP”), a specialist insurance group, headquartered in Sydney, Australia, and its subsidiary Fusion Specialty M&A MGA (“Fusion M&A”), have launched a strategic partnership (“the Partnership”) with Rakuten General Insurance Co. Ltd (“Rakuten”), focused on Mergers and Acquisitions transactions in Japan, and supporting Rakuten’s growth across APAC.