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In-depth: The evolution of digital marketing in China and its impact on insurance
At a glance: The ways businesses market to their potential audiences is rapidly changing as more consumers choose to operate within the digital environment Insurers in particular ...
How China is harnessing livestreaming in insurance: Alipay, Bihubao, and Manulife
As digital insurance platforms gain more traction among the Chinese population, insurers are looking for new ways to bring people through the door. Livestreaming is becoming ...
‘Super app’ video analysis and research deck: WeChat
WeChat, developed by Tencent, is on the face of it a Chinese messaging, social media, and mobile payment app, similar in some ways to the more basic WhatsApp. In reality it i...
Financial Times – Japan’s army of insurance saleswomen feel threat of digital revolution
Executive summary : Coronavirus has accelerated an analogue-digital showdown that Japan had hoped could be postponed for years: the clash between selling insurance online and the ...
PwC – COVID-19: Impact on the Indian insurance industry
Executive summary : The insurance industry seeks to protect a country’s people, assets and businesses. Hence, the business of insurance has always been closely linked to a ...
TDI Talks! with Thomas Dijohn, SVP, Asia-Pacific at dacadoo
TDI’s Pádraig Floyd speaks with Thomas Dijohn, Senior Vice President, Asia-Pacific at global insurance technology company dacadoo. In this 10-minute edition of TDI Talks! ...
InsurTech video analysis and research deck: DocDoc
Singapore-based DocDoc believes healthcare should be safe, transparent, and fair. DocDoc considers itself the world’s first patient intelligence company. It harnesses the pow...
InsurTech analysis research deck: dacadoo
dacadoo develops technology solutions for digital health engagement and health risk quantification. The Swiss-based company partners with insurers, as well as corporate healt...
InsurTech analysis research deck: PasarPolis
Jakarta-based PasarPolis emerged as an aggregator platform for insurance in 2015. Since then it has grown into one of Indonesia’s leading InsurTech companies, with a st...
中国深度：为什么客户终身价值是每家数字化企业都需要关注的重要模型？如何在保险业有效执行该模型?
概要 随着各个行业加快数字化，保险服务提供商须改变观念，聚焦客户终身价值（CLV），以维持有利可图的业务。 ...
Going digital: Insights to optimise consumer appetite for online insurance in Asia 2020
January 2021 featured reports: In line with the broadly regional theme of this month’s library entries, we are featuring two reports from Swiss Re on digital transformation and ...
PwC – Sri Lanka Insurance Report
Executive summary : The numerous advancements that took place within the insurance industry during 2019 contributed towards the establishment of a more competitive, coherent, ...
China’s Dynamic InsurTech Map in collaboration with Beijing Fintech Institute
Welcome to China’s Dynamic InsurTech Map produced by The Digital Insurer in collaboration with Beijing Fintech Institute. The idea of the Dynamic InsurTech Landscape Map came ...
PwC – COVID-19: Impact on the Indian insurance industry
Executive summary : COVID-19: Impact on the Indian insurance industry PwC Executive Leadership Interview Series Interview with R Chandrasekaran, former secretary general, ...
InsurTech video analysis and research deck: 123Seguro
123Seguro is an API enabled digital insurance broker in Latin America. It allows users to compare, buy, and manage policies via app, website and chatbot, from top insurers in...
Australia’s Dynamic InsurTech Map
Welcome to Australia’s Dynamic InsurTech Map produced by The Digital Insurer. The idea of the Dynamic InsurTech Landscape Map came about when we realised there was a lack of ...
InsurTech video analysis and research deck: Moonshot
Moonshot Insurance is an Insurance-As-A-Service platform offering contextual B2B2C insurance with a completely digital user experience.
The Digital Insurer (TDI) D...
InsurTech video analysis and research deck: Igloo
Igloo works with e-commerce and travel firms in Southeast Asia to offer their customers insurance products that provide protection on electronics, and coverage on accidents a...
Insurance Council of Australia : General Insurance Code of Practice
Executive summary: Life can be unpredictable. Insurance can help protect you from life’s unpredictability. Some of the ways general insurance can protect you are: for loss or ...
Strategy& : Japan’s Insurance Sector post-COVID Where to From Here?
Executive summary : As of May 2020, Japanese insurers have mobilised rapidly in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The sudden decrease in global interest rates and significant ...
中国深度：在数字平台上建立有效的合作伙伴关系，其他人可以从中国的成功中学到什么？
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DBS Face Your Future – AI and nudge theory combined to improve retirement planning
New models for digital distribution of health insurance in a post-pandemic world
KEY POINTS Drawing on frameworks identified by Oliver Wyman and Accenture we present a framework for distribution of health insurance in a digital world Insurers are increasingly ...
The innovative digital distribution channels being adopted by healthcare insurers in China
Healthcare and insurance are rapidly evolving all over the world. Ageing populations are enjoying older age, with longer retirements. But longevity has its drawbacks, as more ...
InsurTech video analysis and research deck: Waterdrop
Insurer video analysis and research deck: Taikang Life
India’s Dynamic InsurTech Map – in collaboration with India InsurTech Association
Welcome to India’s Dynamic InsurTech Map produced by The Digital Insurer in collaboration with India InsurTech Association. The idea of the Dynamic InsurTech Landscape Map came ...
Why Customer Lifetime Value is the key metric every digital business needs to focus on, and how to effectively adopt it in insurance
KEY POINTS As digital adoption accelerates across industries, insurers need to shift their mindset to focus on customer lifetime value (CLV) in order to sustain profitable ...
How the Customer Lifetime Value framework is transforming insurers in China
Customer Lifetime Value (CLV) is a powerful tool that insurers are beginning to get to grips with. Making it the central plank of an insurer’s culture will greatly assist in ...
Insurer video analysis and research deck: Jun Kang Life
InsurTech video analysis and research deck: Xiaobang
InsurTech Analysis: Friendsurance
In 2010 Friendsurance introduced the world’s first peer-to-peer insurance model that rewarded staying claims-free. Since 2017, it pivoted to an additional business segment: d...
Hong Kong’s Dynamic InsurTech Map – in collaboration with the Fintech Association of Hong Kong
Welcome to Hong Kong’s Dynamic InsurTech Map produced by The Digital Insurer in collaboration with the Fintech Association of Hong Kong. The idea of the Dynamic InsurTech ...
InsurTech Analysis: Zhong An
Zhong An is China’s first online-only insurer. Founded in 2013 by three of the most successful businessmen in China from Alibaba, Ping An and Tencent. Its IPO raised US...
InsurTech Analysis: Pineapple
Pineapple brands itself as instant, fair, social insurance that returns unused premium, and uses a simple app to get quotes, take out cover, and submit claims.
The...
InsurTech Analysis: Cuvva
Cuvva claims to be radically better short-term car insurer powered by an app that aims to cut jargon, paperwork and call centre queues.
The Digital Insurer (TDI) D...
EY: How China’s insurance industry can emerge stronger after COVID-19
Executive summary : China’s insurance industry helped to mitigate the damage caused by COVID-19. How will the industry evolve further in the economic recovery? China was swift to...
Creating effective partnerships on digital platforms, what can others learn from China’s success?
This in-depth article will explore the partnerships that underpin digital ecosystems, what has worked and how insurers and startups should prepare for this era. Digital ecosystems ...
Singapore’s Dynamic InsurTech Map – in collaboration with the Singapore FinTech Association
Welcome to Singapore’s Dynamic InsurTech Map produced by The Digital Insurer in collaboration with the Singapore FinTech Association (SFA) InsurTech Sub-Committee. The idea of ...
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LIMRA & TDI Webinar – highlights
Watch the highlights of the webinar with LIMRA and TDI on blended learning for insurance in a digital world. In this short 10 minute video, Hugh Terry addresses the following ...
Oliver Wyman: COVID-19 Considerations for Insurers in Asia
Executive summary : The COVID-19 pandemic has had a major impact on almost all economic sectors, and insurers are no exception. While governments are limiting the damage by ...
McKinsey: What insurers can learn from China’s continuing COVID-19 recovery
Executive summary : COVID-19 presents unprecedented challenges for the global economy. China was the first country to shut down in response to the pandemic, and it was the first to...
Insurer video analysis and research deck: China Life
InsurTech video analysis and research deck: Hui Ze
The rise of digital ecosystems – outside perspectives and additional materials
This month China in Focus looks at digital ecosystems in-depth here, we decided to pull together some additional materials found across The Digital insurer and externally for those...
China In-Depth: AI and Machine Learning in insurance – Challenges, examples, and advice for successful implementation
Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) technologies offer exciting and far-reaching potential for insurers to improve operational processes within an insurer’s ...
Deep dive: Japan’s InsurTech boom
Japan is a place of contrasting fortunes for life insurers. As the world’s third-largest economy, and a country of 120m with an average lifespan of 84 years, Japan is blessed ...
Osborne Clark: The future of insurance in Asia-Pacific
Executive summary : Insurtech in the digital era: the growing investment and opportunities in Asia Like many sectors of the economy, the insurance industry is affected by ...
Pulse by Prudential: The future of healthcare
Human beings may crave the trappings of wealth, but ultimately place greater value on good health in order to enjoy it. The world’s population is living longer than ever before. ...
PwC: Reimagining DDO as more than just compliance
Executive summary : Reimagining DDO as more than just compliance At first glance, the design and distribution obligations (DDO) could be seen as compliance boxes to tick. But a ...
InsurTech Analysis: 4Paradigm
Video: Swiss Re’s Yannick Even on AI in insurance, paths to adoption, the Coronavirus crisis, and more
Yannick Even, Data Science Analytics Head, Swiss Re APAC, speaks with The Digital Insurer’s Padraig Floyd about the future of AI and machine learning in insurance. This ...
Swiss Re: COVID-19 Consumer Survey – Financial anxiety grows, demand for insurance products accelerates across APAC
May 2020 featured report: More than a quarter (27%) of consumers feel overwhelmed and anxious about their financial futures, according to new research from Swiss Re. The research, ...
PWC: Transforming health insurance in India via a digitally enabled Ayushman Bharat
Executive summary The global health insurance industry is in a state of rapid transition owing to multiple factors such as an increased focus on healthcare by governments across ...
Assicurazioni Generali: Rise of Digital and Affinity B2B2C Marketing in Insurance – Dealing with a New World
Article Synopsis : The digital revolution is spreading with the fearsome power of the coronavirus. Insurance needs to overhaul its traditional ways of distribution and evolve its...
China In-Depth: Coronavirus
It has long been said about economic performance that when the United States sneezes, we all catch a cold. Yet it might be said, that when China gets sick, other parts of the world...
InsurTech focus: Pet City
Pet insurance has been available in China since around 2004. However, low demand, a small market and relatively small bills, meant it never really gained much of a foothold. As a ...
Asian insurers respond to Covid-19
The response of the Chinese National Medical Insurance Bureau to ensure those afflicted by COVID-19 have their costs met without delay will have calmed the nerves of an ...
TDI PoV: The future of personal lines insurance
In this TDI Point of View (PoV), which is a mini whitepaper series where industry experts present their point of view on a subject related to digital insurance, Frederik Bisbjerg ...
Gojek launches GoSure digital insurance service
Gojek which is an Indonesian ride-hailing app, has collaborated with InsurTech called PasarPolis to launch a digital insurance solution for its users. The range of offerings ...
PwC: Assisted distribution – Changing the face of insurance sales
Article Synopsis : India’s economic development has gone hand in hand with that of the insurance industry, says this report from PwC The last decade has witnessed gross ...
Infosys: Ping An – China’s insurance innovator
Article Synopsis : Ping An is the biggest insurance company in China with 184 million retail customers and 538 million registered internet users. Its operating profit grew by 19%...
InsurTech focus: Shui Di Chou
Shui Di Chou has made a name for itself for offering its members financial relief should they be diagnosed with serious illnesses. However, it is not a critical illness ...
China In-Depth: Healthcare funding ecosystems
The last five years have seen something of a cultural revolution in China. Technology has transformed society and extended protection to those who could never have afforded ...
Qingsongchou
Qingsongchou, literally meaning ‘easy fundraising’, was founded in September 2014, by CEO Yang Zheng and COO Yu Liang. The Beijing based company created a crowdfunding website ...
Swiss Re: Digital transformation in China- on the crest of a wave
Article Synopsis : Digitalisation, and e-commerce in particular, has become the main engine of China’s economy. The move to digital has introduced new risk pools, such as ...
FWD goes open source with Red Hat
FWD Insurance has embraced open source technology by partnering with Red Hat to face growing traditional and non-traditional competition. With this, it wants to break its rel...
AIA Vitality partners with Virgin Active, Grab and Singtel
AIA Vitality’s solution has expanded its fitness experiences for users. AIA Singapore announced enhancements to its AIA Vitality program with the inclusion of Virgin Ac...
China In-Depth: Online Reciprocal Communities
If there was a theme for the Chinese insurance sector in 2019, it would have to be consolidation. Peak investment categorised 2017, followed last year by cooling of startup ...
Insurtech on the move ‘19: Bihubao
Insurtechs tend to focus on a specific part of the industry they operate within, but there will always be some exceptions. Beijing-based Bihubao is one such company and it is ...
Commercial ORC – a B2B distribution model
Online reciprocal communities (ORCs) first emerged in 2015 and were designed as a way to generate leads that did not rely on search engine traffic. Since then, ORCs have become a ...
Interview: Gavin Li, CEO, Bihubao
This month we spoke with Gavin Li, CEO of Chinese insurtech Bihubao. Q1) How has insurtech changed this year in your view? This year has seen a maturity of the market and some ...
Axinan是一家全栈的InsurTech公司
Axinan是一家全栈的InsurTech公司，致力于为数字经济提供智能的数字保险。 ...
值得关注的创业公司: 悟空宝和百度的阿波罗
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本月，我们与Blink首席执行官兼联合创始人Paul Prendergast进行了交谈。
Blink是一项航班取消保险技术公司，致力于实时无缝解决索赔。 Q.1 Blink创立的灵感是什么？ ...
中国深度：参数化未来
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中国人寿/健康应用生态系统概述
本月，我们将探讨中国一些领先的医疗应用程序，该行业正在通过技术的帮助改变消费者接触和参与医疗保健的方式。 微医 ...
中国平安保险
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中国深度：数字生活解决方案（技术支持的死亡率解决方案）
人寿保险在全球范围内下降了几年。许多经济体在2008年后长期陷入衰退，这使它成为一种奢侈，有些人认为他们可以做不到。 ...
NZ InsurTech JRNY partners up with NTUC Income
In Singapore, NTUC Income has partnered with NZ-based JRNY to develop an AI insurance agent. The project is at a nascent stage and will be completed in four months.
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Kyobo Life Insurance rolls out AI-based underwriting system
In Korea, Kyobo Life has announced the launch of its new AI-based underwriting platform called Best Analysis and Rapid Outcome (BARO). The platform employs machine learning t...
Aon, Oxfam, Etherisc agriculture insurance blockchain makes first payouts
Aon, Oxfam and Etherisc’s blockchain solution for agriculture insurance has announced its very first payouts in Sri Lanka. The solution was aimed at providing farmers access ...
TAL launches Claims Hub to demystify the claims process
In Australia, TAL, which is a life insurance carrier, has announced the launch of Claims Hub.
The platform has a dual role. Firstly, it guides and supports customers t...
China In-Depth: Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent
The Chinese InsurTech market is dominated by three key players – Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent, otherwise referred to as BAT. But what has been the development of each within the ...
InsurTech focus: Guan Aitong
Times are changing and with it the expectations of employees. Organisations in China have a rapidly growing need for human resource management and technological innovations have ...
Interview: Nick Luo, VP, Yuanbao Tech
Q.1 What role do you think the BAT has had on the development of digital insurance in China? A: They play a leading role in digital insurance in China. As we know, Alibaba has the ...
BAT Health efforts
China faces a healthcare crisis. Medical resources are scarce and unevenly distributed. The ratio of doctors in China to 1,000 citizens is only 2.2. While this is roughly equal to ...
Dr. Schanz, Alms & Company: Emerging Asia Life Insurance Pulse
Article Synopsis : What is good for insurance isn’t usually good news for the individuals who are purchasing it. And so this is the case in emerging Asia, according to research...
TDI LIVEFEST 2019 Asia and ANZ Startup InsurTech Award Winner – EVARI
Congratulations to EVARI! After listening to presentations from four Digital Insurer Startup InsurTech Awards finalists, and taking part in a Q&A panel session, purely virtual ...
IEEE Network: When Internet of Things Meets Blockchain: Challenges in Distributed Consensus
Article Synopsis : The internet of things (IoT) is here and is disrupting now. It is seen as one of the most disruptive technologies of the century, offering individuals ...
China In-Depth: Digital life solutions (tech enabled solutions for mortality)
Life insurance has been in global decline for some years. The protracted recession post-2008 in many economies has made it a luxury that some have decided they can do without. This...
Overview of China Life/Health App Ecosystem
This month we consider some of the leading medical apps in China, a sector which is changing the way that consumers approach and engage with healthcare and through the aid of ...
InsurTech focus – Ping An
Insurtech is gradually being implemented within the Chinese insurance industry, overhauling inefficient processes and allowing the development of new and better products that ...
AXA partners with Mynt and MicroEnsure for digital insurance app
In the Philippines, AXA has partnered with Mynt and MicroEnsure to provide digital insurance coverage through GCash Insure. GCash Insure is an extension of Mynt’s GCash app w...
Minsheng Life partners with open-source blockchain infrastructure project
Wanxiang Blockchain and the PlatON global computing network have together launched an open source blockchain infrastructure PlatONE. The platform uses cryptographic algorithm...
Interview: Paul Prendergast, Blink insurance
This month we speak to Paul Prendergast, CEO and co-founder of Blink, a flight cancellation InsurTech that focuses on real-time seamless resolution of claims. Q.1 What was the ...
InsurTechs to watch: Wu Kong Bao and Baidu’s Apollo
Following on from the main feature that looks at the effective establishment of parametric insurance and autonomous vehicles (AVs) into the psyche of the Chinese insurance market, ...
China In-Depth: Parametric future
In a sense, there is nothing new about scenario-based insurance, but the proliferation of sensors and internet-enabled devices has allowed products to be developed that were simply...
InsurTech focus – Axinan
Axinan is a full stack InsurTech firm focused on enabling the delivery of smart, digital insurance for the digital economy. Its focus is embedded within its name – taken from ...
McKinsey: Life insurance in China – Four priorities
Article Synopsis : The agency channel in China is seen by some [Reinventing Life Insurance Agency Distribution Globally] as being an exemplar of digitalisation. It has embraced ...
ORF: Towards a Cyber-Security Roadmap for Digital Payments- Best Practices and Recommendations
Article Synopsis : The Indian government’s desire to create a US $1-trillion digital economy by 2025 is going to take some doing. To be fair, India processed some 20.7 billion ...
Handdii secures $1.5 million in seed funding
Handdii an InsurTech in Australia which offers customers access to contractors for repairing property claims has recently secured $1.5 million in seed funding. The InsurTech ...
Singapore’s Pand.ai AI engine powers Great Eastern Life’s chatbot
In Singapore, Panda.ai has partnered with Great Eastern Life to power its chatbot proposition. Panda.ai is an AI chatbot developed for financial services, which serves Fortun...
医疗保健资金生态系统
小额保险的出现促使数百万消费者开始采取措施保护自己的资产。投保的资产从智能手机到健康和生命一一不等。 ...
中国深度报告：新冠病毒
关于经济表现，如老生常谈的那般：一旦美国打喷嚏，我们都会感冒。 ...
中国深究-保险与人工智能和机器学习 — 挑战、案例以及如何成功实施
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线上互惠社区
如果要给2019年的中国保险业定个主题，那一定是“整合”。 ...
The Digital Insurer & InsureTech Connect Partnership for ITC Asia
World’s largest digital insurance platform and the world’s largest Insurtech event are coming together for a standout event in Asia in June 2020. TDI is thrilled to ...
China In-Depth: Ageing Asia
Annuities and retiree care for an ageing Asia Longer lifespans are generally seen as a positive outcome of economic growth. Yet, the Chinese face the double challenge of rising ...
Earthquake detection, mitigation and insurance
Asia is no stranger to natural catastrophes. Of all those that affect the continent, earthquakes are the most destructive and the deadliest. An infamous earthquake in 2008 in ...
InsurTech of the month: Bihubao
Most InsurTechs choose to focus their efforts on a specific part of the industry, be it aggregation, claims or vertical-based customisations. There are, of course, some exceptions....
Halodoc completes strategic funding round, as it continues to expand portfolio of services
Halodoc was founded in 2017 in Indonesia with an aim to merge two separate business units which catered to teleconsultation with healthcare professionals and pharmacy deliver...
MSIG’s industry-first video interaction technology brings convenience and speed to motor claims process
In Singapore, MSIG has teamed up with Merimen and Wavecell to co-innovate a video chat survey to speed up the motor claims process. The video is called TrueSight Interactive ...
中国深度：数据分析和人工智能对中国保险的影响
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本月InsurTech：需求保
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采访：Ricky Chung，智能放映
拥有清华大学理科学位的Ricky Chung于2000年加入汤森路透，担任互联网技术顾问，之后前往加拿大追求成为数字艺术家的梦想。 ...
生命/健康分配中的AI计划
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AI initiatives within life/health distribution
Artificial intelligence, IoT and big data have become inescapable buzzwords but the notion that software will perform functions typically associated with the human mind is fast ...
China In-Depth: The impact of data analytics and AI on China’s insurance industry
Although AI has become the inevitable answer to a range of distribution, product development, and operational questions, the ability to extract insights from new data streams does ...
InsurTech of the month: Xuqiubao (需求保)
This month we feature an agency management startup called Xuqiubao (需求保) which is merging traditional agency management apps with an AI based assisted decision tree. By doing...
Interview: Ricky Chung, Smart Screening
Ricky Chung, who has a science degree from Tsinghua University, joined Thomson Reuters as an internet technical consultant in 2000 before going to Canada to pursue his dream of ...
Grab raises $300m from Invesco to move beyond ride-hailing
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Grab , a ride-hailing company in SEA has raised $300 million from Invesco to further boost its drive to become a “super-app” offering a plethora of ...
Prudential powers up PRUWorks for SMEs with HælthTech technology
In HK, Prudential has entered into a regional agreement with HælthTech, a provider of technology solutions and operating platforms for insurers. PRU leverages HælthTech’s OMN...
Using blockchain to reimagine health information exchange in India: PwC
Article Synopsis : With the use cases for using blockchain for electronic billing, prescriptions, health data and a single countrywide medical record for each citizen being ...
Parametric Insurance within Agritech
Shouguang, known as the vegetable basket of north China, recently suffered a devastating flood that caused the evacuation of hundreds of farms. While flooding in Shouguang is not ...
InsurTech of the month: 2019 update
This month we revisit several Chinese InsurTechs previously featured in The Digital Insurer in order to assess their ongoing development. 1. Bihu Technologies Bihu is a Beijing ...
Interview: Lex Tan – CEO of MotionsCloud
Lex Tan is the CEO of MotionsCloud. MotionsCloud provides an intelligent claims solution for property and motor insurers to streamline and automate claims processes. Q.1 The fact...
China In-Depth: Agritech
Amidst rapid urbanisation along with China’s eastern sea board, it’s easy to forget its agrarian hinterland. Yet China’s farms have managed to feed its giant cities, ...
Great Eastern launches three-generation critical illness term plan
Great Eastern Singapore has launched GREAT Family Care, a critical illness term plan that protects three generations in a family within a single policy. The solution comes at...
UOB renews bancassurance deal with Prudential for S$1.15b
Prudential Plc and United Overseas Bank (UOB) have renewed their bancassurance agreement for S$1.15bn. The partnership is 15 years old and started when UOB sold its life insu...
AIA and Citi reinforce partnership with digital insurance solution
In Malaysia, Citi and AIA have collaborated to launch an end-to-end digital channel that allows Citi customers to purchase AIA’s suite of insurance products and solutio...
Modernising the insurance value chain: Top three digital imperatives
Article Synopsis : Insurance is undergoing massive change. The industry is being forced to adopt technology not simply to modernise, but in order to survive. Incumbents are also ...
Zurich Partners with The Makeover Guys to Protect Newly Renovated Homes
Zurich General Insurance has partnered with The Makeover Guys, (a property investment solutions provider) to launch a new insurance solution known as ‘The Make...
Interview: Haifei Li, Sino Conflux Life
This month we speak to Haifei Li of Sino Conflux Life, a regional life insurer in China’s North Eastern province of Liaoning. Q.1 In the face of increasing competition in the ...
Online Reciprocal Communities
The success of low price/low limit health insurance platforms on WeChat has fulfilled some of the hopes around P2P insurance in China. However, despite answering the customer ...
China In-Depth: InsurTech impact on Chinese insurance
China’s digital insurance landscape has been popularised by the success of Zhong An and followed by hundreds of startups working in the knowledge that a growing middle class and ...
InsurTech of the month: Kaopubao
The traditional role of life insurers is to deliver financial planning products in addition to protection that reduces the need for large amounts of liquid assets. However, the ...
5月采访: 李海博
To view this content in English click here Q.1面对中国保险业日益激烈的竞争，西方保险公司如何与百度，阿里巴巴和腾讯（BAT）竞争？ ...
在平安交叉销售
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中国深度：自然巨灾预防
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本月InsurTech：获客宝
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Cross Selling at Ping An
要用中文查看此内容，请单击此处 Ping An is China’s undisputed digital insurer with a 90 billion dollar market cap and a range of standalone units that includes ...
InsurTech of the month: Hukebao 獲客宝
要用中文查看此内容，请单击此处 Hukebao is a Beijing based agency management tool that is equipping agents with WeChat based lead generation, O2O consultation ...
Interview: Gavin Li
要用中文查看此内容，请单击此处 This month we speak to Gavin Li of Bihu Technologies, a Beijing based InsurTech. Q.1 In the face of increasing competition in the ...
China In-Depth: Natural Catastrophe Prevention
要用中文查看此内容，请单击此处 Global insured losses from natural catastrophes in 2018 were $76 billion, the fourth highest on record. Additionally, Asia suffers ...
Digital India: Technology to transform a connected nation
Article Synopsis : If you were to consider which could be the next big connected market, where would you say? Somewhere in Europe? Southeast Asia? Perhaps. But would India make ...
Solidier.ly, a digital health related solutions
Soldier.ly is an Australian tech startup which has developed a stress detection app for smartwatches that provides users with real-time assistance when it detects stress. The...
SCOR teams up with Garmin Health to improve underwriting process
SCOR Global Life has announced a partnership with Garmin Health, a wearable technology startup, with the aim of improving its underwriting in the Asia Pacific region.
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Specialty insurer SiriusPoint is now live
The company has over $3 billion in initial capital.
AIP News RoundUp – Episode 37 – Theresa Bliss...
For a while now, we have been looking for a way to make the AIP News RoundUp more interactive. That’s why we have joined Clubhouse! On Clubhouse we will discuss the latest news ...
The Art of Hiring – Agency Nation
Art and hiring are similar when you think about the process. Changing and perfecting will lead to the perfect masterpiece.
SiriusPoint launches with more than $3bn in initial capital
SiriusPoint, a newly formed specialty insurance and reinsurance company, has launched its operations with more than $3bn in initial capital.
AXA launches enhanced business protection plan for SMEs &...
The policy covers fire and other insured perils, such as burglary, public liability, ...
solution platform · AXA teams up with peer-to-peer funding platform for SMEs.
India’s IRDAI directs insurers to offer standard personal...
The IRDAI has issued new guidelines asking the insurers to offer a standard personal accident insurance policy to the customers by 1 April 2021.
Genworth Financial sells ownership in Genworth Mortgage I...
Genworth will continue to prepare for a potential partial IPO of Genworth's U.S. Mortgage Insurance business, subject to market conditions as well as the satisfaction of various...
Metromile Appoints Junna Ro as General Counsel
The former AAA insurer chief ethics and compliance officer and Symantec corporate counsel oversees a growing team of legal, regulatory and compliance professionals at Metromile.
Using Insurance Data to Better Tackle Ransomware – ...
Since the early 2000s, many companies have purchased cyber insurance to
protect them when data is stolen, networks are breached, regulatory agencies
levy ...
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It has a stake in micro-insurance specialists, UK-based Micro-Ensure Holdings
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American Family backs AnswersNow
AnswersNow recently raised $1.8 million.
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India Insurtech Landscape And Trends
This report captures the Indian and global Insurtech landscape, trends focusing
on the innovations being enabled by Insurtechs and methods to increase ...
Would your client actually buy a pandemic risk product?
Even if insurance products were available for pandemic risk specifically, several businesses say they wouldn’t anticipate becoming more dependent on risk financing or insurance ...
Simply Business Boosts Agent Engagement with Noble Gamifi...
Simply Business, one of the UK's largest business insurance providers, has
chosen Noble Gamification to drive agent engagement.
HDFC Life Insurance Management Team – Leaders Profile
Under their leadership HDFC Life has consistently focused on setting
benchmarks in all aspect of insurance business. Ms. Vibha Padalkar. Managing
Director ...
Chubb launches MY Smart Car Insurance
The product includes three different plans offering cover within the annual mileage limits of 5,000km, 7,000km and 10,000km.
Innovating in insurance – one (digital) step at a time
The Efma-Accenture awards recognise insurance innovation. January’s winner was Azur with its impressive broker self-service solution called Smart Home.
PHYD and PAYD: UBI most popular product models
Read all about the most popular UBI product models: pay-how-you-drive and pay-as-you-drive and learn about insurer and customer benefits.
Meet Zurich’s new chief risk officer for Canada
Sonia Kundi is Zurich North America’s new chief risk officer for Canada. She has joined the Zurich North America group risk management team, effective immediately, and reports t...
Chubb and Travix partnership to personalise travel insurance
Global insurer Chubb has launched a new travel insurance partnership with global online travel company Travix
Baidu reboots fintech bid with blockchain
China’s internet giants have used payments as a gateway to something else. What’s Baidu’s goal for fintech?
Chubb Launches Travel Insurance Partnership with Travix
Chubb has today announced the launch of a new travel insurance partnership with global online travel company Travix. The collaboration sees the offer of Chubb's comprehensive tr...
Partners Life Selects the FINEOS Platform for Claims –
FINEOS Corporation, the market-leading provider of group and individual core systems for life, accident and health insurance, today announced that Partners Life, following a com...
Fixing accident and disaster recovery, with AI – Th...
Accidents and disasters affect hundreds of millions of people every year. And every incident – from a minor scrape of a car bumper, all the way up to a full-scale catastrophe – ...
Chubb partners with Travix
Customers using Travix websites when making their travel arrangements will be offered Chubb's travel insurance plans.
Aviva to exit Turkey
The transaction is expected to complete this year, but is subject to closing conditions and regulatory approval
COVID-19 to drive stronger reinsurance growth & posi...
France headquartered global reinsurance firm SCOR noted this morning that the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic is creating the conditions for stronger
Stablecoin News for the week ending Wednesday 24th Februa...
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More Insurer Partnerships, Tech Investments, Divestitures...
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Chubb Launches MY Smart Car Insurance for Low Mileage Dri...
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Safe drivers could save nearly one-third at renewal with ...
Latest renewal data from telematics pioneer, insurethebox shows that drivers can save more by simply being safe behind the wheel. Find out more!
Travel insurance industry set to see growth
The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and the quest for more travel security will spur sharp growth in the travel insurance market over the next seven years, according to Research...
How life insurers can transform into a new-age digital hy...
V. Viswanand, Deputy Managing Director, Max Life Insurance, shares in this
article how life insurers can transform into a new-age digital hybrid sales
distribution ...
Top firms increasing global I.T. spend to next-gen tech
Financial services firms that invested in emerging technologies profited in 2020, new Broadridge study finds.
Chatbots take on more customer service tasks at Progressi...
More data feeding algorithms allows AI 'agents' to do more than ever.
AIA Hong Kong Launches “AIA Voluntary Health Insurance Pr...
Whatfix: Helping businesses on their digital journey R...
Whatfix offers a unique digital adoption platform – in-app walkthroughs, videos,
and guides for using new software solutions and features.
E47 – Growth of Actuarial Science Through the Lens ...
How insurers are using data analytics and techniques of data collection to better
serve their customers. Role of the reinsurer in the insurance industry. How ...
Part 4: What changes can we expect in future? – Dai...
Politicians and media are all over this story like a cheap suit. Much change will come from all of this. Here is my rating (high, medium, low) on 8 possible changes: Front runni...
We asked Europe’s biggest tech investors to pick th...
More than $7 billion was invested in insurtech startups globally last year.
TymeBank raises ~$109 million
Launched in 2019, TymeBank offers a transactional bank account with zero or low monthly fees and a savings product.
This Kenyan insurtech startup is eyeing Asia and Latin Am...
The new financing will scale up operations in its existing 13 markets across Africa
, where it has insured over 4.3 million farmers. They include Senegal, Ghana, ...
TPL Insurance to offer travel insurance policies online
TPL Insurance, Pakistan’s first direct insurance company, has entered into a strategic partnership with Let’s Compare
Progressive Acquires Protective Insurance Adding To Its &...
Protective Insurance is a P&C insurer based out of Carmel, Indiana. ...
Progressive will fund the purchase through liquid investments on hand. The per
share ...
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The only podcast dedicated to InsurTech in Asia and how technology is reshaping the insurance industry.
Chubb Life Vietnam launches new medical rider “Bảo hiểm C...
Ho Chi Minh City, February 21, 2021 – Chubb Life Insurance Vietnam Company Limited (“Chubb Life Vietnam”) has launched the new medical rider “Bảo hiểm Chăm sóc Sức khỏe – Chubb...
Hong Kong’s virtual banks primed to disrupt insurance
The key resource for accurate, insightful and reliable coverage of Asia’s insurance and reinsurance market.
Megha Prakash – Earthmiles • Accelerating insurance...
This week we interview Megha Prakash, Founder and CEO of Earthmiles, which rewards employees for improving their wellbeing, be it physical, mental, financial or social.
Technology will continue to drive M&A – Clyde and Co
The law firm says that technology will continue to be a key feature of deals in the coming year
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