Aon has unveiled plans to launch the Aon Digital Placement Exchange (Aon DPX), a new digital trading platform that will modernize the placement of Follow Line businesses in the London market by using structured data and algorithmic trading to more effectively connect brokers, capital and risk.
The platform plans to go online in the second half of 2026 for U.S. real estate risks.
Aon explained that it will allow insurers to digitally express and deploy their underwriting intentions, helping to speed execution, improve placement consistency, reduce friction in the placement lifecycle and provide more predictable outcomes for brokers and clients.
Joe Peiser, CEO of Aon Venture Capital, commented: “Follow Line’s business has not been structured in a way that keeps pace with the scale and complexity of today’s risks.
“Aon DPX introduces a more efficient, data-driven approach to connecting risk and capital, designed to provide clients with greater clarity, choice and control.”
Aon DPX is expected to integrate with Aon Broker Copilot, Aon’s integrated placement, analytics and brokerage technology, to embed digital trading into brokers’ workflows to support more consistent execution and access to capacity.
DPX is built on Aon-designed logic and configurable parameters that reportedly allow insurers to digitally express their risk views.
Aon continued: “Each participating insurer retains full control over the definition and deployment of its underwriting preferences, and Aon has no visibility into individual preference profiles. Powered by advanced transaction analytics, Aon DPX will be a useful tool to help insurers improve their competitiveness and service as customer needs and market conditions change.”
Clyde Bernstein, global head of Aon Broker Copilot and Aon DPX, concluded: “Aon DPX offers insurers a progressive way to maintain control of risk and underwriting strategies while delivering a rapid, sustainable capital deployment model.”
