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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>📋 '''Franchise Board''' refers to a governance body within the [[Definition:Lloyd's of London | Lloyd's of London]] market — formally known as the Franchise Board of Lloyd's — responsible for setting and enforcing standards across the market's [[Definition:Lloyd's syndicate | syndicates]], [[Definition:Managing agent | managing agents]], and [[Definition:Coverholder | coverholders]]. Established as part of Lloyd's post-2002 reforms, the Board oversees the commercial and [[Definition:Underwriting | underwriting]] performance of the market, aiming to protect the collective brand and financial strength of Lloyd's while ensuring that individual participants operate within sound risk management boundaries.<br />
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⚙️ The Franchise Board exercises its authority through business plan approvals, performance monitoring, and the imposition of minimum standards. Each [[Definition:Lloyd's syndicate | syndicate]] must submit a detailed annual [[Definition:Syndicate business plan | business plan]] to the Board, which scrutinizes projected [[Definition:Premium | premium]] volumes, [[Definition:Risk appetite | risk appetite]], [[Definition:Reinsurance | reinsurance]] arrangements, [[Definition:Loss reserve | reserving]] assumptions, and [[Definition:Expense ratio | expense ratios]]. If a syndicate's performance deteriorates or deviates from plan, the Board can intervene — requiring corrective action, restricting the scope of business written, or in extreme cases, preventing a syndicate from continuing to trade. It also sets market-wide standards on areas such as [[Definition:Claims handling | claims management]], [[Definition:Delegated underwriting authority (DUA) | delegated authority]] oversight, and [[Definition:Capital adequacy | capital adequacy]].<br />
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💡 Before the Franchise Board's creation, Lloyd's operated with a more decentralized governance model that allowed weak performers to undermine market-wide confidence — a vulnerability painfully exposed during the near-existential crises of the late 1980s and early 1990s. The Board's establishment marked a decisive shift toward centralized performance management, and it has been widely credited with improving the market's aggregate [[Definition:Combined ratio | combined ratio]] and financial stability over the subsequent decades. For [[Definition:Managing general agent (MGA) | MGAs]], brokers, and capital providers considering participation in Lloyd's, the Franchise Board's oversight functions as both a discipline mechanism and a quality signal, reinforcing Lloyd's reputation as a marketplace of last resort for complex and specialty [[Definition:Risk | risks]].<br />
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'''Related concepts'''<br />
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* [[Definition:Lloyd's of London]]<br />
* [[Definition:Lloyd's syndicate]]<br />
* [[Definition:Managing agent]]<br />
* [[Definition:Syndicate business plan]]<br />
* [[Definition:Council of Lloyd's]]<br />
* [[Definition:Coverholder]]<br />
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