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🏛️📋 '''Lloyd's of London''' is the world's oldest and most recognized specialistdistinctive [[Definition:Insurance market | insurance marketand reinsurance marketplace]], operatingtracing notits origins to Edward Lloyd's coffeehouse in the City of London in the late seventeenth century. Rather than functioning as a single [[Definition:Insurance carrier | insurance company]], Lloyd's butoperates as a marketplacemarket where multiple [[Definition:Lloyd's syndicate | syndicates]] — each backed by theircorporate ownor [[Definition:Capital provider |individual capital providers]] — comecompete togetherand collaborate to underwrite risk.risks Foundedbrought into Edwardthem by [[Definition:Lloyd's coffeehousebroker in| theLloyd's Citybrokers]]. ofThis Londonstructure inhas themade lateLloyd's seventeenthuniquely century,suited theto marketplacing hascomplex, evolvedlarge, overand moreunusual thanrisks three— centuriesfrom into[[Definition:Marine ainsurance global| hub for complex, specialty,marine]] and [[Definition:SurplusAviation linesinsurance | surplus linesaviation]] business.to Lloyd's[[Definition:Cyber occupiesinsurance a| uniquecyber]], structural[[Definition:Political position in therisk insurance industry:| itpolitical is simultaneously a market, a regulatory frameworkrisk]], and a brand, governed by the Corporation of Lloyd's under the oversight of thebespoke [[Definition:PrudentialSpecialty Regulationinsurance Authority| (PRA)specialty]] |coverages Prudential— Regulationthat Authority]]conventional andinsurance themarkets [[Definition:Financialmay Conductbe Authorityunwilling (FCA)or |unable Financialto Conductabsorb Authority]]on their own.

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* [[Definition:FundsBinding atauthority Lloyd's (FAL)agreement]]

* [[Definition:CoverholderSpecialty insurance]]