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Executive summary : Key findings New consumer protection laws resulted in 8.3 million fewer covers Covers in force this year reduced by 20% compared to 2018–19 (down from 40.9 ...

Executive summary : Around the world, restrictions that were put in place to contain the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19) have started to relax. For many businesses, including ...

Article Synopsis : The insurance industry value chain is undergoing profound and rapid change, driven by new customer expectations, emerging technologies and sustained downward ...

By Martin Werth, CEO, UnderwriteMe. Life Insurance needs to go digital. Digital is more than technology, it’s about strategy and a new way of thinking. Digital is rewriting the ...

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  To spearhead the development of insurance industry, Clariden Global is proud to host the 3rd InsurTech, Big Data Analytics & Disruptive Innovation Forum in Sydney and ...

Australian primary insurance giant Suncorp reported its fiscal year 2022 results to June 30th this morning, revealing that its natural hazard losses ran

Zurich Australia has wrapped up the transfer and integration of the life insurance business of OnePath Life.

Global reinsurance company Hannover Re has continued its strong growth through the first-half of 2022, with the firms gross premiums written growing by

Hannover Re benefited from an increased recovery under its long-standing capital markets backed mortality swap arrangement by the end of the first-half of

Coverage is underwritten by AIG.

Allianz Partners has reported that travel insurance purchases by Australians have almost doubled each month since January, as international departures rise by 34 per cent since ...

PartnerRe, the Bermuda headquartered reinsurance company, has retained an important investment into its third-party capital vehicles from former owner

A series of winter storms in Europe, unprecedented flooding in Australia and South Africa as well as a high number of thunderstorms in the US and Europe, resulted in US$35 billi...

Liberty Mutual Insurance has completed the acquisition of Malaysian insurer AmGeneral Insurance Berhad, which is expected to make Liberty Mutual the

Aviso Broking, a part of Aviso Group, has acquired eastern Sydney-based Macquarie Insurance Brokers for an undisclosed amount.

Liberty Mutual Insurance has concluded its previously announced acquisition of Malaysian insurer AmGeneral Insurance (AmGeneral).

Cover Genius, the insurtech for embedded insurance, has acquired Booking Protect, a company specialising in embedded ticket protection for ticket sellers,

InsTech’s Tara Allsopp spoke to Ben Laidlaw, Chief Technology Officer and Syndicate Portfolio Manager at Carbon Underwriting, to discuss the benefits of using technology to make...

Private automobile loss ratios surged from 55.6 year-end 2020 to 72.2 in the first three quarters of 2021, the highest level in a decade. At the same time, prices for new vehicl...

ANZ is acquiring Suncorp Bank from Suncorp Group.

Tractable provides an artificial intelligence (AI) solution for assessing vehicle and property damage, improving the claims process for both the insurer and policyholder. Accord...

JAVLN’s leadership and development team will continue to be based in its new premises in Grey Lynn, Auckland.

Chubb has appointed Amy McKellar and Michelle O’Dowd as the new joint leadership team for its Australia and New Zealand (A&NZ) Consumer Division

Holibob is a B2B travel company backed by an insurance executive.

Specialty re/insurance intermediary McGill and Partners has tapped CyberCube to leverage its cyber risk analytics platforms.

SYDNEY, 13 July 2022 – Chubb today announced joint leadership of Chubb's Consumer Division, Australia & New Zealand (A&NZ). Amy McKellar, currently Consumer Manager for A&NZ, ha...

The Asia InsurTech Podcast spoke with Chris Borrett, the Chief “Everything” Officer at flip, about how flip is targeting younger demographics with new insurance products and how...

Australian bank Westpac has introduced travel insurance coverage for epidemics and pandemics such as Covid-19, as a benefit for its credit card customers

André is responsible for the strategy and execution of direct venture and fund investment, in addition to establishing partnerships in the reinsurance business space that genera...

Founded in 2016, Tensorflight automates commercial property inspections for underwriting and risk assessment. According to PitchBook, the company has raised almost $9 million to...

Weaving regulatory compliance seamlessly into the high-end service of private wealth management requires a delicate touch.

KPMG says a bounce in collective investment in Australian fintechs to $3.6 billion last year was back near pre-covid levels and provides “optimism for 2022…

The acquisition of the Paris-based SaaS software provider is aimed at expanding Duck Creek’s global footprint across EMEA and APAC.

AXA Climate has teamed up with Hailios to expand its parametric hail insurance product to new locations across the globe.

AXA Climate, the parametric specialist risk transfer managing general agent (MGA) unit of global insurance and reinsurance company AXA, has partnered with

Discover the top 50 private insurtech companies globally, from early-stage startups to unicorns, that are using tech to improve the insurance experience.

CHICAGO, IL, JUNE 14, 2022/insPRESS/ – Envista Forensics (“Envista”), a leading global provider of forensic consulting services, announced the hiring of Neil Goodrich as Chief I...

What’s the best cloud architecture for insurance core technology?By David Kuhn, Deployment Strategist at Socotra. A version of this article appeared in

Australian insurance group QBE is planning to set up a branch in the Netherlands in a bid to expand its European operations.

The switch to the cloud will enable Hollard to work with its other technology ecosystem partners using low-code tools and established integrations to rapidly bring to market inn...

McCathron Succeeds Founder Wand as CEO Home insurer Hippo reports it has appointed Richard McCathron as chief executive officer. McCathron has served on

Duck Creek Hollard Insurance Selects Duck Creek OnDemand to Enable and Optimize Its Business Transformation. We are a leading provider of comprehensive P&C insurance software an...

Two years into the Covid-19 pandemic, a Swiss Re Institute survey among 11,000 consumers worldwide shows that the pandemic has led to a greater focus on health and financial sec...

Greenlight Re Innovations (GRI), a unit of Greenlight Capital Re, has made an undisclosed investment in insurance startup Garentii.

AIA Group’s subsidiary AIA China has received nod from Chinese regulator to launch new branch in Henan province in China.

The U.K. government has confirmed it will move forward on a major ex ante competition reform aimed at Big Tech, as it set out its priorities for the new parliamentary session ea...

Usage-based insurance means ‘pay-how-you-drive’ and provides a way for motor insurance companies to set premiums based on individual driving habits. This blog provides a brief o...

Here is our pick of the 3 most important Stablecoin news stories during the week. The Humpty Dumpty of stablecoins! This last week was all about the Algo stablecoin Terra, which...

According to a 2020 MDRT study, 85% of Americans would be more likely to trust recommendations from human advisors who demonstrate emotional intelligence, or EQ.

UK-based specialist insurance and reinsurance broker BMS has opened a new unit in New Zealand called BMS Risk Solutions.

Insurance has been managing through uncertainty for centuries (and some historians would argue, for even longer). These times also call for us to continue innovating so that we ...

TORONTO, ON, MAY 11, 2022/insPRESS/ – Carbonzero and BioSweep Canada Corporation are excited to announce a partnership that will see the companies work together to measure a cor...