Alliance Risk vs CFC Crime Insurance

Alliance Risk brokers standalone-style crime placements; CFC puts crime inside a US management-liability package with stated declines.

What Is Alliance Risk?

Alliance Risk describes itself as an independent commercial insurance brokerage serving complex businesses, including technology startups. Its offering includes technology E&O placement and review of existing policies. 1,2

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What Is CFC Insurance?

CFC provides specialty insurance through an MGA model, with technology products for startups through multinational businesses. Its U.S. technology materials describe combined liability and cyber protection, while California eligibility requires product-specific confirmation. 5,6,7,8

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What Is Crime Insurance?

Crime insurance addresses business losses from specified theft and fraud risks, such as robbery, forgery and embezzlement. 13

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Key Differences in Crime Insurance

How Crime Is Sold

Alliance Risk arranges crime placements as a brokerage and describes the coverage it places rather than an Alliance-issued policy. CFC includes crime inside its US Management Liability package; the reviewed management-liability materials do not offer that crime cover as a standalone product within the package. CFC also sells a separate fintech package that includes employee infidelity and third-party fraud, and the reviewed pages do not say whether that is the same crime wording as the management package. 3 9 11

Coverage Lists

Alliance Risk’s crime page covers employee theft and embezzlement, forgery or alteration, fraudulent electronic funds transfer, social-engineering impersonation, and burglary, robbery and safe burglary, with client-property theft by endorsement. CFC’s brochure describes company crime (employee theft, funds-transfer fraud, credit-card and currency fraud) plus client crime (fraud by clients or their staff) and on-premises and off-premises theft. 3 9

Appetite and Named Paper

Alliance Risk lists businesses that handle cash, payments or sensitive data, companies with accounting or procurement teams, nonprofits with volunteer financial oversight, and organizations in finance, retail, healthcare or logistics. CFC’s brochure lists California-domiciled business and US publicly traded companies among risks it declines for the package that carries this crime coverage. Alliance Risk’s crime page does not name an issuing insurer. CFC’s regulatory page discloses FCA authorization and Lloyd’s Syndicate 1988 but does not name the carrier or syndicate that would issue a given US crime policy. 3 9 8

Limits and Claims Routing

Alliance Risk gives typical premium ranges and does not publish coverage limits or retentions. CFC’s brochure likewise does not publish a dollar limit, sublimit or retention for crime; those figures appear on the quote and declarations. CFC provides a US claim-notification route by phone, email and online form and says a dedicated claims adjuster manages a claim from notification through resolution. Alliance Risk’s reviewed crime pages do not describe a crime-specific claims channel. 3 9 12

What to Confirm in Crime Insurance Quotes

  • Ask whether CFC is quoting crime only inside the management-liability package or through the separate fintech package. 9 11
  • Confirm you are not a California-domiciled or US public company if you are looking at CFC’s management package. 9
  • Get the issuing insurer from both Alliance Risk and CFC; neither crime-focused page names the paper for a given US policy. 3 8
  • Ask Alliance Risk whether client-property theft is endorsed and whether business-income loss from crime is added; CFC’s brochure lists client crime as part of the crime section. 3 9

Offering Details

Alliance Risk vs CFC Crime Insurance: documented features by provider

CriteriaAlliance Risk Crime InsuranceCFC Crime
Role in This Line

Alliance Risk arranges crime insurance placements as a brokerage; the crime page describes the coverage it places rather than an Alliance-issued policy. 3,4Company-reported. Crime product page and the general brokerage disclosure on the coverage catalogue page.

CFC includes crime coverage inside its US Management Liability package. The reviewed management-liability materials do not offer it as a standalone product within that package. 9,10Company-reported. Management-liability product page and brochure; package composition as CFC describes it.

Issuing Insurer

The crime insurance page does not name an issuing insurer or carrier for the coverage. 3Not publicly disclosed. Crime product page as read on 2026-09-23.

CFC's regulatory page discloses CFC Underwriting Limited's FCA authorization and CFC's Lloyd's Syndicate 1988, managed by Asta Managing Agency Ltd, but neither the regulatory page nor the management-liability brochure names the carrier or syndicate that would issue a given US crime policy. 8,9Not publicly disclosed. Regulatory information page and brochure as read on 2026-09-23.

Who It’s For

Alliance Risk lists businesses that handle cash, payments or sensitive data, companies with accounting, billing or procurement teams, nonprofits with volunteer financial oversight, and organizations in finance, retail, healthcare or logistics as common crime insurance buyers. 3Company-reported. Crime product page, Who Needs Crime Insurance? section.

CFC's brochure lists California-domiciled business and US publicly traded companies among the risks it declines for the package that carries this crime coverage. 9Company-reported. Brochure's 'What we decline' list; underwriting still applies to any individual business.

Coverage Features

Alliance Risk's crime insurance page covers employee theft and embezzlement, forgery or alteration of checks or documents, fraudulent electronic funds transfer, social engineering fraud and impersonation, and burglary, robbery and safe burglary, with theft of client property available by endorsement. 3Company-reported. Crime product page, What Does Crime Insurance Cover? section; actual policy structure depends on the carrier and the policy as issued.

Alliance Risk says its crime coverage excludes business income loss from crime unless endorsed, cyber breach or hacking (which it says falls under a cyber policy instead), losses not discovered during the policy period, and dishonest acts by company owners or partners. 3Company-reported. Crime product page, What Doesn't Crime Insurance Cover? section.

CFC's brochure describes company crime cover including employee theft, funds transfer fraud, and credit card and currency fraud. 9Company-reported. Brochure's 'Crime cover' description; the issued policy wording determines the actual insuring agreements and any sub-limits.

The brochure also lists client crime, meaning fraud by clients or their staff, and on-premises and off-premises theft, as part of the crime section. 9Company-reported. Brochure's 'Crime cover' description.

CFC separately sells crime coverage for employee infidelity and third-party fraud within its fintech package. The reviewed pages do not state whether that fintech crime coverage is the same crime coverage sold inside the management-liability package. 11,9Company-reported. Fintech product page compared against the management-liability brochure; both accessed 2026-09-23. This does not establish overlap or difference in wording between the two products.

Limits and Retentions

Alliance Risk's crime page gives typical annual premium ranges ($500-$2,000 for small businesses up to $10,000-$50,000+ for large enterprises) but does not publish specific coverage limits, sublimits or retentions. 3Not publicly disclosed. Crime product page as read on 2026-09-23.

The reviewed brochure does not publish a dollar limit, sublimit or retention for crime coverage. Those figures appear only on the quote and declarations. 9Not publicly disclosed. Brochure as read on 2026-09-23.

Claims Support

Not described in the reviewed sources.

CFC provides a US claim-notification route by phone, email and online form, and says a dedicated claims adjuster manages a claim from notification through resolution. 12Company-reported. Claims page as read on 2026-09-23; not specific to crime claim outcomes or timing.

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Sources

Alliance Risk

  1. About Us. Alliance Risk; Our Story. Accessed 2026-09-16.
  2. Tech E&O Insurance. Alliance Risk; Opening placement description; Get Your Tech E&O Risk Review; What We Need for Your Quote; Policy Review. Accessed 2026-09-16.
  3. Crime Insurance. Alliance Risk; What Is Crime Insurance?; Who Needs Crime Insurance?; What Does Crime Insurance Cover?; What Doesn't Crime Insurance Cover?; How Much Does Crime Insurance Cost? Accessed 2026-09-23.
  4. Alliance Products. Alliance Risk; Footer brokerage disclosure: "Alliance Risk is an insurance brokerage focused on providing clients with commercial insurance across a wide array of industries.". Accessed 2026-09-23.

CFC

  1. About CFC. CFC; Matt Taylor biography: independent MGA and Syndicate 1988. Accessed 2026-09-16.
  2. Technology. CFC; Introduction; Technology key features; Digitally traded. Accessed 2026-09-16.
  3. Technology — United States product brochure. CFC; Page 1: coverage sections, including Products and services liability; Response app highlights; Limits and deductibles. Accessed 2026-09-16.
  4. Regulatory information. CFC; CFC Underwriting Limited; CFC Lloyd's Syndicate 1988. Accessed 2026-09-23.
  5. Management liability — United States product brochure. CFC; Crime cover; At a glance: What we like; What we decline; What else is in the policy? Accessed 2026-09-23.
  6. Management liability. CFC; Our management liability products: Management liability, Side A DIC. Accessed 2026-09-23.
  7. Fintech insurance. CFC; What does CFC's fintech policy cover? Crime coverage for employee infidelity and third-party fraud. Accessed 2026-09-23.
  8. Claims. CFC; Notify a claim or cyber incident; We're in it with you. Accessed 2026-09-23.

Crime Insurance Guide

  1. Commercial Insurance Guide. California Department of Insurance; Crime. Accessed 2026-09-16.

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