{"id":167249,"date":"2025-09-29T03:24:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T03:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/167249\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T03:24:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T03:24:07","slug":"chris-lay-to-become-next-chair-of-the-london-market-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/167249\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Lay to become next chair of the London Market Group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-end=\"1866\" data-start=\"1435\">McGovern\u2019s tenure as chair coincided with a period of heightened engagement between the insurance sector and government. Under his leadership, the LMG played a central role in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.insurancebusinessmag.com\/uk\/news\/breaking-news\/industry-responds-to-uk-captive-insurance-reforms-542681.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">driving initiatives<\/a> such as the introduction of a UK captive regime, a long-awaited development for corporate risk financing. The group also sharpened its focus on attracting future talent, an area seen as critical given the market\u2019s ongoing skills gap.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"McGovern\u2019s tenure as chair coincided with a period of heightened engagement between the insurance sector and government. Under&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":167250,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[75626,59,57,58,75625,75624,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-167249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-captive-regime","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-lay","tag-lmg","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}