{"id":60490,"date":"2026-05-05T17:21:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T17:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/60490\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T17:21:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T17:21:07","slug":"cbns-equity-play-meets-insurers-ar-awakening-and-brokers-are-in-the-middle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/60490\/","title":{"rendered":"CBN&#8217;s equity play meets insurers&#8217; AR awakening &#8211; and brokers are in the middle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On one side, there is Community Broker Network (CBN) doubling down on equity investment in its ARs through an expanded partner model, pitched as a way to &#8220;back brokers to achieve their business ambitions&#8221; with capital, capability and shared expertise. On the other, insurers are rapidly upgrading how they service the AR segment, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.insurancebusinessmag.com\/au\/companies\/zurich\/53097\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Zurich<\/a>&#8216;s recently launched AR-only underwriting and distribution team the latest and clearest signal that ARs are now treated as a strategic channel rather than a broker sub-category.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On one side, there is Community Broker Network (CBN) doubling down on equity investment in its ARs through&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60491,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[128],"tags":[33481,33482,244,219],"class_list":{"0":"post-60490","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-zurich-insurance","8":"tag-ar-network","9":"tag-cbn","10":"tag-insurance","11":"tag-zurich-insurance"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/116523125037967061","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60490\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}