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CURATED INSURTECH NEWS | What’s going on in the D-A-CH region?

Healthcare and Insurance – Should we try to incentivise the ‘right’ behaviours through technology? Part 2/2

TDI Talks! with Jeremy Jawish, CEO and co-founder of Shift Technology

Portugal’s Dynamic InsurTech Map – in collaboration with Portugal Fintech

InsurTech Analysis: Alan
Alan is a digital health insurance platform that aims to revolutionise health insurance by focusing on user experience with a competitive price-quality ratio health ...

CURATED INSURTECH NEWS | What’s going on in the D-A-CH region?

Healthcare and Insurance – Should we try to incentivise the ‘right’ behaviours through technology? Part 1/2

Hiscox: Cyber Readiness Report 2020

EIOPA : Call to action for insurers and intermediaries to mitigate the impact of Coronavirus/COVID-19 on consumers

McKinsey: Scaling the impact of advanced analytics in Iberian insurance

Beyond Insurance – a nova estratégia para o sector?

Ageas INsure – Open Innovation. Speaking of innovation with Nuno Horta

Beyond Insurance – the new strategy for incumbents?

Insurance Europe: Making EU insurance regulation that works and benefits consumers

CURATED INSURTECH NEWS | What’s going on in the D-A-CH region?

How to move from an ego system to an ecosystem – In conversation with Moshe Tamir, Founder of Tel Aviv innovation builder Axell

Applied adds Geo Underwriting to personal lines panel
Applied Systems, a cloud-based solution provider has launched a new product in partnership with Geo Underwriting called Geo FlexiLet. The product is underwritten by Ageas and...

Humana and Validic partner to boost wellness through wearables
Humana Inc, a wellness company, and Validic, a health data solution provider, have teamed up to boost device connectivity and the use of data in Humana’s Go365 wellness...

Santalucia embraces agile integration approach
Santalucia which is a Spanish insurer has partnered with Red Hat to embrace agile integration and open hybrid technologies to further its digital transformation strategy.
...
Willis Towers Watson partners with eBaoTech
Willis Towers Watson (WTW) has partnered with eBaoTech, a digital insurance solution provider. The partnership will see the integration of WTW’s Radar Live rating engine with...

OPAL IS unveils protection platform for life insurers
OPAL, a Fintech developer, has launched a new protection platform called Pandora Launch for life insurers and banks. The platform is used by HSBC Life, Aviva and Lloyds Banki...

Nucoro targets insurers with wealth management technology
Fintech Nucoro has announced the extension of its wealth management focused white-labelled technology to the insurance sector.
According to Nucoro, combining insurance...

Applied Systems and Zurich announce motor partnership
Zurich Insurance and Applied Systems have entered into a technology-based motor insurance distribution partnership which will allow Zurich to connect its Insurer Hosted Prici...

Blink to Strengthen Canadian Foothold with TuGo Partnership
Blink has partnered with TuGo to boost their travel insurance proposition by offering tailor-made travel solutions to its customers. The solution is billed as Realtime Flight...

Will tech save health insurance?

Poderá a tecnologia salvar o seguro de saúde?

Flashback no Web Summit 2019

Web Summit 2019 flashback

A transformação digital dos seguros e o papel da APS – Entrevista de José Galamba de Oliveira – Presidente da APS, Associação Portu...

The digital transformation of insurance and the role of APS – An interview of José Galamba de Oliveira

Panorama Insurtech em Portugal: 2019

The four trends that define insurance in 2020

Insurtech Panorama in Portugal: 2019

CURATED INSURTECH NEWS | What’s going on in the D-A-CH region?

The dating platform for insurance – Insurlab Demo Day 2019

‘FinTech meets InsurTech’ – Breakfast with Samarth Shekahr and Karl Heinz Passler

TDI LIVEFEST 2019 Europe Startup InsurTech Award Winner – KASKO2GO

QUANTALYSE and Schönenberger Advisory Services: The automotive digital transformation and the economic impacts of existing data access mo...

London startup Pluto aims to simplify travel insurance purchase and claims
Pluto is a UK-based travel insurance startup that aims to help travellers get most out of their trips. It providers travellers hassle-free and transparently priced travel ins...

AXA boosts digital interactions with RingCentral partnership
AXA which has partnered with RingCentral and through the use of its digital interaction platform, RingCentral Engage Digital, has seen a 50% month on month growth in its digi...

Bank of England: Embracing the promise of fintech

Trov Launches InsurTech White-Label Insurtech Platform and Partners with Lloyds Banking Group
Trov has partnered with Lloyds Banking Group to launch a portfolio of end-to-end digital, white-labelled insurance products designed to be rapidly deployed by financial organ...

Arch Insurance invests in InsurTech Archipelago
In the UK, Arch Insurance International has invested into MGA InsurTech startup Archipelago Risk Services, which deals with personal lines to serve mid- to high-net-worth cus...

Insurwave onboards Xceptor to digitise speciality insurance
Insurwave which is a JV between EY and Guardtime is the world’s first marine insurance blockchain platform, built in close association with Maersk, Microsoft and MS Amlin, am...

WhenFresh launches big data InsurTech solutions direct to insurers
Established in 2012, WhenFresh Ltd is a Data-as-a-Service (DaaS) business which services various sectors including Financial Services and Insurance. It helps in bringing toge...

Topdanmark partners with LeakBot
Topdanmark, the second-largest insurance company in Denmark, offers a wide range of policies to customers around the country including house insurance for many Danish homeown...

The Next Chapter: AXA XL Group
In 2018, AXA acquired XL Catlin for US$15bn. The acquisition came during the time when the insurance industry was facing digital disruption and changing the regulatory landsc...

InsurTech Previsico launches solution to fill flash flood forecasting gap
Previsico is a global provider of real-time, street level flood prediction and analytical solutions using rainfall predictions. The insurtech is a spin-out from Loughborough ...

DNB: Vision for the future of the Dutch insurance sector

CURATED INSURTECH NEWS | What’s going on in D-A-CH region? – Q2 2019

Blockchain on the block – Interview with Prof. Dr. Sandner, Frankfurt School of Finance and Management

Driverless cars AI firm Humanising Autonomy gains funding from insurtech investor
Found in 2017, Humanising Autonomy envisions a future where people around the world can naturally and intuitively interact with autonomous systems. It has, therefore, created...

Generali strikes strategic technology partnership with Google
Generali and Google have entered into a strategic partnership aimed to disrupt the traditional insurance industry. The move will create and innovate a cloud-based platform of...

Ageas INsure – Open Innovation. Uma conversa sobre inovação com o Nuno Horta

Deloitte: Insurance of the future – what will it look like in 2025?

Imburse – Universal Payments Connector
Imburse, a ‘universal payments connector’, is a Swiss startup operating globally, which operates a Payment as a Service platform that makes it simpler for compani...

Protechting, um programa de aceleração ao serviço de um grupo

Portugal – Paraíso para investidores e empresas (insur)tech?

Insurtech / Fintech – Novos Ecossistemas

O Insurtech workgroup da AFIP

Popsure: Insurance made easy for people who don’t speak German
Popsure is an independent online advisory platform in Germany which helps people to understand insurance better and make a well-informed independent decision. The customers b...

The AFIP InsurTech workgroup

InsurTech/Fintech – New Ecosystems

Protechting, an accelerator program servicing a corporate group

Portugal an investor’s heaven for (insur)tech businesses?

Artificial intelligence in transport: Current and future developments, opportunities and challenges

Notes from the AI frontier: Tackling Europe’s gap in digital and AI

Visor.ai automates conversations using chatbots and AI
Visor.ai is a Portuguese startup that seeks to help companies automate their interactions, through AI and chatbots. Its technology aims to help companies respond to clients...

By Miles – On-Demand Insurance Company Raises £5m Series A
By Miles is a UK insurtech providing pay-per-mile car insurance targeting motorists who drive infrequently. A matchbox-sized black box device called ‘Miles Tracker’ ...

Tapoly: Broker platform for on demand products
Tapoly is an insurtech that focuses on self-employed freelancers, sole traders, contractors, AirBNB hosts, and small businesses. It has also developed a new online s...

Unlocking digital competition April 2019

Digital bancassurance takes off in Europe

RSA-linked machine learning project receives government funding
In Feb 2019, Innovate UK announced that it will fund a two-year research programme which will explore machine learning to better forecast risk.
The programme will see ...

Insurtech TrackActive seeks new funding to develop AI-enabled product
TrackActive, a UK-based insurtech has partnered with Gen Re to raise £300k seed funding to develop TrackActive Me, an artificial intelligence-enabled musculoskeletal (MSK) so...

Future of Insurance Report 2019

The future of personal insurance in the UK – excellence or irrelevance

InsurTech Impact 25 2019

CUBE wins MetLife Insurance regtech project
Headquartered in London, Cube is an AI-driven regtech offering that helps insurers to navigate regulatory changes and minimize the cost and risk of non-compliance. Cube monit...

Sell policies online via Particeep plug based on API Rest
Particeep – one of France’s top InsurTechs according to Le Radar Assurtech 2018 of Olivier Wynam & policendirekt – enables banks, insurance companies, asset m...

CURATED INSURTECH NEWS | What’s going on in D-A-CH region?

Keep Warranty
Keep Warranty is a B2B2C app tackling the issue of lost warranties and purchase slips by storing them in one secure location and making it accessible at all times via the app...

Admiral Group partners with MHR Analytics
Admiral Group has partnered with MHR Analytics to improve its underwriting capabilities through better data management. The partnership aims to co-ordinate Admiral’s internat...

Active.Radar by Ibshurance
Active.Radar brings together insurers, brokers and enterprise clients through a unified and highly customisable collaborative workflow hub that automates, manages and execute...

Regulation in the times of InsurTech – Interview with Kathleen Köhn (BaFin)

MySeg – manage all your insurances in one place
MySeg aims at improving consumer’s insurance experience by allowing all insurance matters to be easily and conveniently dealt with in one place –...

Seventh Consumer Trends Report

Homelyfe launches digital insurance platform
UK based, Homelyfe launched a B2B digital insurance platform called “Aventus” which enables businesses to create a white label buying experience for any insurance line, in an...

Everledger’s Pioneering Blockchain Work for Diamonds
Everledger, a London-based blockchain company, has applied blockchain technology to over 1.6mn diamonds effectively creating a digital twin of the object. This established re...

Relevance of Mutual and Cooperative Lessons learned from developed Europe and Asia

BMS Funding announce integration with Claim Technology, introducing a revolutionary AI claims platform for digital self-serve
BMS Funding has partnered with Claims Technology to provide Claims-as-a-Service. The partnership will launch a fully digital, “touchless” personnel injury claims por...

Smart Travel Health Insurance
Unico Sigorta one of the leading insurance company in Turkey which has a vision of creating innovative insurance products. They have designed a smart travel health insurance ...

TDI LIVEFEST 2018 Europe Insurance Innovation Award Winner – Quick Sigorta

TDI LIVEFEST 2018 Europe Startup InsurTech Award Winner – TRACKACTIVE

Homelyfe launches B2B platform to enable digital innovation at start-up speed
HomeLyfe, a UK based insurtech, has launched a new digital insurance platform called Aventus which allows challenger and retail banks to integrate with any insurer t...

AXA Invests in DabaDoc
In Africa, AXA has invested an undisclosed sum in a Morrocan healthtech platform called Dabadoc. The investment will help Dabadoc to enhance its footprint in its existing geo...

Legal & General launches digital platform for brokers
In the UK, L&G has launched a new digital broker platform that delivers greater efficiency by enabling online client management for Group Income Protection and Group Life...

TDI Talks! With Martin Spengler, Insurance and Work Automation Lead @ Appway

iXledger’s new platform provides insurance for companies embarcing blockchain
iXledger is a UK-based startup founded in 2017, which has launched a platform that allows companies embracing blockchain to obtain business insurance quotes based on a risk a...

FloodFlash an InsurTech startup focused on properties at risk of flooding raises £1.9m seed
FloodFlash is a London-based startup specialising in flood insurance. Founded in 2017 and was developed by a team that spent decades by modelling and structuring of parametri...

Blocksure Goes Live with Covéa Insurance and Commercial & General
Blocksure is a London-based startup which has developed a blockchain based admin system that can work alongside or replace insurers’ legacy systems and displaces the ma...

Travelers Europe Launches Cyber Insurance in UK and Ireland
Travelers Europe has launched a first standalone cyber insurance for businesses in the UK and Ireland. The policy is named as CyberRisk and it provides:
– Liabil...

Global LIVEFEST DIGITAL INNOVATOR Paul Prendergast – How to partner with InsurTechs – A low-risk and low-cost approach to del...

Global LiveFest Digital Innovator Gareth Eggle – Is Insurance really broken?

SoSafe – Combining phishing prevention and cyber risk coverage
The SoSafe founders have developed a learning suite to prevent phishing attacks from occuring in companies. For this purpose, they have put together a curriculum that combine...

Insurtech Coya receives license from German Regulator
Found in 2016, Coya is a Berlin-based P&C Insurtech which has been granted a BAFIN license by the German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority. Coya recently raised a f...

AIG to snap up life specialist Ellipse from Munich Re
AIG is acquiring Ellipse, a group life insurer previously run by Munich Re. The transaction is subject to regulatory approval and will be closed in Q1 2019.
Launched...

Zurich working with Apple on new broker app
In Q4 of this year, Zurich and Apple will jointly launch a broker app in the UK. The app has been integrated with Zurich systems to automatically supply useful information ab...

Aegon invests in German pension startup fairr.de
Aviva takes majority stake in startup Wealthify
Aviva’s recent acquisition of a majority stake in Wealthify, a robo-advisory platform, will further accelerator its ambition to disrupt its legacy operating model.
Wea...

Wrisk is rethinking insurance for the connected generation
Wrisk is a UK-based InsurTech that offers content insurance for phones, laptops and devices whilst planning to extend its offering to cars, health, home etc. ...

Carpenters launches MyClaim app for insurers
Carpenters, a UK based claims service provider has launched MyClaim app for insurers, enabling them to receive real-time communication and submit...

Flock launches pay-as-you-fly drone insurance solution
Flock is a London-based startup that has launched Europe’s first pay-as-you-fly drone insurance, underwritten by Allianz.
As an o...

Concirrus – Behavioural intelligence software for motor and marine insurance
Working with leading London and global insurers, Concirrus have proven that behaviour is a better indicator of risk than demographics, and they’re on a missio...

VW connected mobility: P&V Assurance partners with D’Ieteren and Amodo
P&V Assurance has partnered with Amodo (a connected mobility platform provider) and D’Ieteren (a car dealership based in Belgium) to launch a ‘conne...

BNP Paribas and Amodo partnership explores shareable economy insurance
BNP Paribas and Amodo are continuing their ongoing partnership to evolve traditional insurance products from pure coverage to preventative, customer-oriented,...

Zeeno – Digital Wellness Platform for corporates and insurers
Zeeno started out with the idea to use pattern recognition as a means to improve the impact of wellness programs delivered by corporates and insurers for thei...

Bought By Many launches travel insurance product
In Europe, Bought By Many has launched an Urgent Medical Travel Insurance policy specifically tailored for people suffering from serious health issues.

Bupa strikes digital health partnership with HealthTap
Bupa has entered into a partnership with US based HealthTap, which styles itself as a ‘healthcare operating system’ powering the largest network of interactiv...

HiThere advanced analytics
HiThere is a Dutch startup founded in 2016 as a spin out of Kleynen Consultants and based on advanced analytics that was originally conceived as a back-office platform for in...

Customer Engagement webinar recording – Poll concludes that the most important customer initiative is building an omni-channel capa...

Covéa taps new tech to streamline auto claims
UK based Covea Insurance is partnering with Audatex, a claim solutions provider, to streamline Covea’s auto claims experience.
The partnership involves the advan...

Sanagate’s SanaHealth app
Swiss health insurer Sanagate AG and Dacadoo, a digital healthcare startup, have launched an app called SanaHealth. Although there are several similar health apps already ava...

Espire Infolabs Customer Engagement Hub (CEH)
Espire Infolabs (a global CRM provider) and Pitney Bowes (a logictics firm) have launched the Customer Engagement Hub, to help insurers and intermediaries implementation, ana...

Getsurance launches first digital disability insurance
With a population of 80m and the highest number of insurance policies per capita in the world, Germany is ripe for InsurTech. Getsurance is one of these and the first digital...

Co-op Insurance Facebook chatbot
Co-op Insurance is a UK-based general insurer operating within the motor and home segments. Recently, it launched the UK’s first ever car insurance chatbot that allows ...

Innovation & Transformation by Pega

Winner of The Digital Insurer’s European Insurance Innovation Award 2017 – Generali

Finalist of The Digital Insurer’s European Insurance Innovation Award 2017 – Healix

Finalist of The Digital Insurer’s European Insurance Innovation Award 2017 – HDI Sigorta

Finalist of The Digital Insurer’s European Insurance Innovation Award 2017 – Zurich

Winner of The Digital Insurer’s European Start Up InsurTech Award 2017 – Aerobotics

Finalist of The Digital Insurer’s European Start Up InsurTech Award 2017 – Shift Technology

Finalist of The Digital Insurer’s European Start Up InsurTech Award 2017 – NuvaLaw

Finalist of The Digital Insurer’s European Start Up InsurTech Award 2017 – CBien

Simplesurance – Simple access to insurance
Founded in Germany in 2012, Simplesurance offers a unique platform with transparent and efficient insurance services to connect people and business, anywhere and anytime. It ...

Aviva – New Alexa skill
Aviva has become the first UK insurer to launch an Alexa Skill on Amazon’s Echo. Specifically, the Aviva assistant gives users voice-controlled access to a glossary of over 3...

On Demand Insurance webinar recording – Poll concludes that majority of insurers will have an on-demand insurance offering for cust...

By Miles – Pay-per-mile car insurance
By Miles is a UK based startup that offers pay-per-mile car insurance using a black box and mobile app. By Miles members just pay a small subscription fee t...

Neosurance – Contextual insurance through push notification
Italy based Neosurance has created a platform which enables insurers to deliver scenario based tailored policies. Neosurance provides a virtual sales agent for insurers that ...

Flock – Pay as you fly Drone insurance
Allianz and Flock, a UK based InsurTech, are set to launch the first pay-as-you fly drone insurance later this year for the UK market. The coverage can be tailored to each fl...

Zego – Flexible insurance for delivery drivers
Zego, previously known as Tego, is a London-based on-demand insurance provider which is making insurance flexible and more accessible for customers, and to manage their own p...

Back Me Up – App-based and on-demand
Back Me Up is a subsidiary of Ageas Insurance, providing usage based property insurance for millennials, irrespective of time and place.
Essentially, the core differen...

Digital Risks – Shaking up business insurance
Digital Risks is a rareity amongst InsurTechs as it focuses solely on the needs of digital businesses. Specifically, Digital Risks offers coverage against the rising threat o...

Fuelling Digital Innovation in Insurance webinar recording – Poll overwhelmingly concludes that we are just at the start of a lengt...

Worry+Peace Pouch – Amazon like marketplace for insurance
Worry+Peace is a UK based insurance broker re-imagining the entire insurance process by building tools to deliver an all encompassing insurance experience rather than mere po...

XL Innovate – Venture Capital Initiative by XL Group
XL Innovate is a corporate venture fund focused on the P&C vertical and investing in startups that are addressing emerging and underserved risks. XL Innovate is also seek...

Aviva Ventures
Aviva Ventures is the wholly owned venture arm of Aviva, investing in a range of early stage InsurTech startups. It provides investment, and access to Aviva’s global op...

Allianz Ventures
Based in Munich, Allianz Corporate Ventures is the strategic venture arm of Allianz, which supports startups focusing on ideation, growth and success by leveraging the expert...

Helvetia Venture Fund
Helvetia, a Swiss insurer, has set up the Helvetia Venture Fund to invest in next generation InsurTech startups, which will contribute to the digital transformation of its ex...

Smart car, smart business model – KPMG Report by Alec McCullie

API Driven Insurance-As-A-Service Can Learn From Banking ...

Croatia osiguranje Launches New Digital Brand LAQO with S...

GB Underwriting joins Specialist Risk Group

Amanda Blanc succeeded by Crawford’s veteran for insurtec...

Insurtech: the new accelerator for startups by CDP Ventur...

Specialist Risk Group buys construction sector MGA

Supervisors should support insurers in helping to facilit...

Inflexion plans to build another “powerhouse”...

Vizion takes broking director from Gallagher

New Dawn Risk’s UK division to serve ‘clear demand’ for b...

Cybersecurity Risk Management – Part I — Internet Lawyer ...

Jersey fintech company integrates with insurance underwri...

Plaid, now on its own, will find Asia harder to enter

What technologies should insurers bet on in 2021? –...

Curve raises $95 million as it plans US launch

The strength (and the message) of startups – Insura...

Willis Towers Watson unveils new cyber risk assessment se...

Juggling Act – Part 4: Modernising core platforms for lif...

AxonIQ raises a €6 million series A led by AVP

BLW takes director from Gallagher as it expands into Scot...

Insurers call for regulatory clarity on outsourcing and t...

Gallagher buys Bollington Wilson

CLARK raises $85 million

Uinsure adds Covéa Insurance to its broker platform

Uinsure boosts its platform with its seveth member Covéa ...

Adrosonic, Instanda to accelerate digital transformation ...

New Dawn Risk targets regional brokers

Belgium-Based Regtech B.Fine Raises €1 Million Through Fi...

Shell Ventures backs British insurtech startup Humn

New Chairman for Dialogue

Dawn Risk launches UK division as alternative to big brok...

Allianz vies with Liberty Mutual to grab slice of BBVA in...

Marsh Launches UK & Ireland Sharing Economy & M...

Marsh introduces new sharing economy group – New Finance ...

Blockchain for healthcare data management: opportunities ...

ThingCo secures $4.2 million

Thousands of UK financial services firms at heightened ri...

This Week in Fintech ending 8 January 2021 – Daily ...

Peter Høngaard Andersen and Jacob Hahn Michelsen proposed...

Seventeen Group reports rising turnover and Ebitda

HX Group Augments Underwriting with expert.ai

Pen Underwriting extends £165m Zurich capacity deal

Pen Underwriting Extends Long-Term Partnership with Zuric...

PIB reveals its first deal of 2021

Tennessee-Based Sedgwick Names Fisher Chief Data Officer

Marsh forms new sharing economy expert group – Comm...

RGAX launches cloud-based underwriting engine UWPal

“Digital Fiat Currency” Trials Make A Debut I...

Charles Taylor buys third-party claims administrator Aegis

Marsh unveils sharing economy and mobility group for the ...
