Search Menu Sharing risk to create a braver world How we deliver on our purpose Home About Lloyd's Our Purpose Lloyd’s is the world’s leading insurance and reinsurance marketplace. Through the collective intelligence and risk-sharing expertise of the market’s underwriters, brokers and coverholders, Lloyd’s helps to create a braver world. The Lloyd’s market provides the leadership and insight to anticipate and understand risk, and the knowledge to develop relevant, new and innovative forms of insurance for customers globally. It offers the efficiencies of shared resources and services in a marketplace that covers and shares risks from more than 200 territories, in any industry, at any scale. And it promises a trusted, enduring partnership built on the confidence that Lloyd’s protects what matters most: helping people, businesses and communities to recover in times of need. Lloyd’s began with a few courageous entrepreneurs in a coffee shop. Three centuries later, the Lloyd’s market continues that proud tradition, sharing risk in order to protect, build resilience and inspire courage everywhere. Delivering a braver world through partnership Everything Lloyd’s does is underpinned by one unifying purpose: sharing risk to create a braver world. This purpose speaks to the impact and aspiration of the market and is as true today as it was in Edward Lloyd’s coffee shop in 1688. The stories below symbolise how collectively, the Lloyd’s market enables innovative ideas, shares insight and creates lasting partnerships to make a tangible difference for our customers, helping to create a braver, more resilient world. Sharing risk to help deliver vaccines everywhere, Parsyl In the effort to vaccinate the world against Covid-19, developing an effective vaccine was only the beginning. We now face the daunting task of distributing billions of doses, which requires a complex and robust transportation programme… Find out more Sharing risk to create a renewable future, Oliver Litterick, Chaucer Olly believes a ‘braver world’ is one that embraces the opportunities and challenges associated with the global shift toward alternative, sustainable sources of energy. That includes enabling the companies behind the world’s renewables projects to invest in new technologies, and often presenting complex new risk considerations in the process. Find out more Sharing risk to enable braver leaders, a story by Rachel Turk, Beazely Rachel believes that if insurance can do more to serve the C-Suite, then today’s leaders will be able to focus on strategic decision-making to take their businesses further. Find out more Sharing risk to face catastrophes, GCube Although the renewable energy landscape is changing, for instance Covid-19 has presented a unique set of challenges for the supply chain of key infrastructure, there are few other industries on which humanity has placed such hope. Find out more Sharing risk for a sharing economy, Apollo From property to transportation to music, many industries are being transformed by our new-found love of sharing, a societal change that’s having a profound effect on the insurance industry too. Find out more The Braver World A braver world is a world we need to build - and protect. It will require new levels of courage and creativity, backed by collaborative insurers. And those insurers will come from the Lloyd’s market, sharing risk to create a braver world. Find a broker, syndicate or coverholder Market Directory Use our market directories to find an accredited Lloyd’s broker, syndicate or coverholder. Subscribe for the latest updates Future at Lloyd's updates Lloyd’s Futureset updates Market bulletins Risk reports Tax news & updates Support Contact us FAQs Glossary & acronyms Useful organisations Accessibility Legal Privacy Cookies Terms & conditions Modern Slavery Act Cookie Preferences Lloyd's Copyright 2021 Lloyd's and Corporation of Lloyd’s are registered trademarks of the Society of Lloyd's Lloyd's is authorised under the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000