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11 hours ago ... The insurance companies of Bangladesh should start their Artificial Intelligence (AI)-empowered journey as the 4th Industrial Revolution (4IR) is knocking.

GlobalData indicates that technology using blockchain is commonly patented in insurance with insurers beginning to find uses for it.

From hashtag campaigns to government internet shutdowns, technology is now a key political risk focus according to the Willis Towers Watson Political Risk Index Winter Update

The Indonesian P2P lender plans to provide wealth and other financial services to women entrepreneurs.

This report reviews CARE's experience with microinsurance through seven case study examples across its global programmes in Bangladesh, Ghana, India, ...

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Data from MAPFRE Economics reveals that these countries have the highest insurance potential, both in the Life and Non-Life lines, in the medium- and long-term

The insurance company recently signed the micro insurance agreement with Bank Asia. Under the agreement, the borrowers of Bank Asia's Agent Banking ...

Bangladesh, home of Grameen Bank, has a large market for microinsurance, with over 25 million customers and products covering everything from loans and ...

'It also looked at mechanisms in the insurance system, including microinsurance, that can help improve financial security in these populations during a time of ...

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The company plans to use the funding to scale business & engineering teams so as to solve some of the hardest engineering challenges in Insurtech and build ...

Covid-19 is forcing the use of technology during Cyclone Amphan and other major incidents.

Imagine merging into busy traffic without ever looking over your shoulder nor accelerating or braking too hard, irritating the driver in the next lane

The Bangladesh-based mobile financial services firm will provide free healthcare benefits for its customers during the pandemic

“This is the first instance for the insurance industry in Bangladesh that a life insurance company adopted secure digital solution for end-to-end claim settlement ...

MILVIK (Cambodia) Micro Insurance Plc, a mobile-delivered health insurance provider, has been in Cambodia for approximately five years now. It uses innovative ...

While insurance is the process of sharing, transferring or assuming risk ... If the insurance industry wants to claim its rightful place within the economy, we must ...

The Bancassurance model (a partnership between an insurance company and bank where the bank sells insurance products) could be an optimal solution for ...

Why need for Specialized Seminar on Livestock Insurance? ... Livestock Insurance to next level, when India emerges as 5 Trillion US $ economy. ... This results in the sharing of...

... for emerging markets. The conference will be hosted in cooperation with the Bangladesh Insurance Association (BIA) and the Microinsurance Network.

The Landscape of Microinsurance in Africa 2018 report launched at an international conference on inclusive insurance in Dhaka, Bangladesh, is based on data ...

Behind the humble QR code is an epic struggle over payments infrastructure.

Ethereum is a blockchain technology that is designed to be universal, supporting all manner of applications and functions, says its creator, Vitalik Buterin.

A.I. is in high demand – but often fails to live up to its promises. Eberhard Schoneburg explains how it works and why A.I. doesn’t always deliver.

Financial institutions quarantine executives’ online lives while using cloud and A.I. tools for flexibility.

The 15th International Conference on Inclusive Insurance, co-organised by the Luxembourg-based Microinsurance Network, kicked off today, 5 November 2019,  ...

Privacy concerns trouble even permissioned blockchains, says Dekrypt Capital’s Howard Wu, because without privacy, digital currencies can’t be fungible.

In a recent speech, Swiss Re’s Kornelia Papp describes how data scientists combine language, technology and insurance.

Professor Rubina Hamid, first vice president of BIA, Katharine Pulvermacher, executive director of Microinsurance Network and Dirk Reinhard, vice chairman of ...

Health microinsurance, as distinguished from commercial microinsurance, is especially vital in helping poor families to cope with financial shocks arising from ...

... such as health organisations or insurance companies, so it can't be used for ... S virtual reality headsets — and introduced a new feature, Facebook Dating.

In 1988, Delta Life Insurance launched micro insurance in the country with the primary objective of reaching every household through a network of trained and ...

The takaful sector in Pakistan in recent years has increased its market share due to greater consumer acceptability and the entry of conventional insurers into the sector as win...

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As Bangladesh works towards achieving universal health coverage and access to quality health care in accordance to UN's '2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development', the current go...

Banking cooperative Swift, which runs the global network for interbank payments, has issued a new report on bank-focused cyberattacks, which shows that four out of five of all f...

Brokers have to get to grips with a range of new risks when dealing with tech firms, writes Sam Barrett

The Cabinet has approved a new insurance law, called the Insurance Corporation Act, 2018, replacing a 1973 version.

Policyholders co-operate among themselves for their common good. Every policyholder pays a part of the contribution as a donation to help those that need assistance. Losses are ...

International air travel has become remarkably safe in recent years, with deadly accidents like last month's Lion Air crash in Indonesia becoming more

The underinsurance gap in Asian countries has widened by 9.4% to $134bn today from $122.5bn in 2012, according to new research from Lloyd's, the world's specialist insurance and...

Guardian Life Insurance Limited has introduced EasyLife, the first digital term life insurance in Bangladesh.     Coverage can be...

The insurance sector in Bangladesh receives good policy support from the government, according to Mr MetLife Bangladesh General Manager Syed Hammadul Karim. He cited insurance l...

ROC and major claims take a hit as catastrophes make 2017 the costliest year for specialty insurance

Risk managers for companies transferring money outside of Canada might want to check the social media profiles of workers in their accounting departments. Criminals sometimes re...

State-owned general insurer Sadharan Bima Corporation will pay an initial US$4.2 million or BDT346 million in compensation for the ill-fated US-Bangla plane that crashed in Nepa...

The government is set to take up a BDT6.32 billion (US$76 million) project to upgrade insurance regulation with the view to developing Bangladesh's insurance sector. Of the tot...