South Africa

“La transformación de las compañías de seguros en la era digital, desde una perspectiva de la atención de siniestros, son menester para nosotros en la actualidad y debe ...

Ante todo, nos debemos preguntar ¿qué es un seguro on-demand? El seguro “on-demand” o “seguro a demanda” o “seguro switch” es un concepto nacido hace varios años con...

El COVID-19 creó una crisis mundial que está desafiando nuestra forma de vida porque la pandemia restringe la movilidad y la interacción entre las personas, y esto lo cambia ...

Executive summary  Governance and Individual Accountability Hiding behind the Accountability veil Conduct regulation was recently introduced into South Africa. It manifests itself...

La industria aseguradora no es fácil, altamente regulada, anticuada en muchos procesos, sistemas antiguos, burocrática y solo por mencionar algunos; sin embargo, nada de esto ha ...

English Hablamos con Hilario Itriago sobre big data y transformación digital. Hilario es un ejecutivo internacional, con experiencia en procesos de transformación operativa y ...

English En la década de los 1800s un líquido negro, que hoy conocemos como petróleo, empezaba a brotar desde el interior de la tierra. En ese momento poco se conocía de sus ...

English Las tecnologías digitales están transformado al mundo, y con él, a las personas y las empresas que diariamente interactúan entre sí.  Estos cambios han hecho que las ...

English Antes de empezar la conversación sobre la disrupción digital y las Insurtechs en América Latina, es importante conocer las características del mercado asegurador en la ...

Español Digital technologies are transforming the world, and with it, the people and companies that interact daily with each other. These changes have created disruptions in many...

Español Before we start the conversation about the digital disruption and the Insurtech landscape in Latin America, it is important to understand the characteristics of insurance...

Antes de empezar la conversación sobre la disrupción digital y las Insurtechs en América Latina, es importante conocer las características del mercado asegurador en la región....

Before we start the conversation about the digital disruption and the InsurTech landscape in Latin America, it is important to understand the characteristics of the insurance ...

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INSTANDA has worked closely with Standard Bank Insurance to enable them to ... of bancassurance, focused on wealth management and financial wellbeing.

Customer and policy management platform INSTANDA has launched its first insurance market product in Africa, collaborating with Standard Bank.

The two will work together to attract new graduate talent by promoting the insurance profession amongst students

A few recent developments in health insurance are noteworthy. Two of these were sizeable fund raises, distinctive from general trends. The third saw a large ...

The African Risk Capacity (ARC), a provider of parametric disaster insurance products to countries and now other entities in Africa, is also planning to

The African Risk Capacity Limited (ARC Ltd), a commercial subsidiary of African Risk Capacity Group (ARC Group), has signed a partnership agreement with

Following our recent coverage of Brit's Ki, Munich Re's Parachute Insurance, State Farm's Sundial Labs, and Indiana Farm Bureau's Peril Protect, we thought it was time to look a...

Team Sønr interviews Andrew Leal, the Co-Founder & CEO of Waggel, a fully digital pet insurance startup offering instant quotes.

Partnership introduces AI-enabled image identification, automation and analytics to personal property insurance buyers in Texas

Sasria, the South African short-term special risk insurer to individuals, business and government institutions, and Guidewire Software, Inc. (NYSE: GWRE), the platform general i...

On-demand insurance for 'weekend warriors'. Sanlam reports rapid uptake of SA's first 'pay-as-you-go' accident cover. By 7 Feb 2017 11:00 ...

CFI has core operations in mobile money, social payment services, digital banking, international remittances and mobile micro insurance. Read the original ...

South African telecom operator Telkom has reportedlyforayed into financial services by launching a life insurance business.

COVID-19 reinforces the urgency to make life insurance purchasing simpler and more digitally enabled.

“In recent years Telkom has made a strategic shift to digital distribution, which puts it in an ideal position to distribute insurance products using its considerable  ...

Being a last minute addition to two Digital Insurance Innovation Conference Africa 2020 panels has proven the Flat Earthers’ hypothesis- the earth is not a spherical barrier to ...

SSP's chief technology answers questions on the big issues of the day

BOSTON, MASS. – July 16, 2020 – UDoTest, a Massachusetts-based software company focused on B2B, at-home, health screening, today announced...

Healthcare cost and availability, and business interruption cover litigation- strange bedfellows with commonality- overarching need within economies for resolution for each mult...

Fintech, regtech, wealthtech, proptech – it feels like every industry is looking to ... For example, we see companies in the insurance sector use drones to assess ...

The key resource for accurate, insightful and reliable coverage of Asia’s insurance and reinsurance market.

Mauritian insurance company (MUA) has reportedly completed the acquisition of Nairobi-based Saham Assurance company for a sum of Sh1.23 bn.

The company has a partnership with Old Mutual Alternative Risk Transfer to offer credit life insurance and funeral insurance.

MATRIX Greece, a Howden Group company and the largest insurance & reinsurance broker in Greece, has selected leading broker platform provider Novidea as its...

To find out why, we looked at how insurance is sold in different regions, broken down by distribution channel - digital direct, intermediated or aggregated. In the ...

With an array of digital insurance distribution solutions, Neutrinos is helping insurers rapidly build applications on disruptive technologies, cater to customer ...

BOSTON, MASS. – June 26, 2020 – UDoTest, a Massachusetts-based software company focused on B2B at-home health screening, recently launched...

As part of our efforts to scale distribution of our index-insurance, we have benefited from the support of aggregators such as Casa do Agricultor, ECA, Phoenix, ...

Agronomic operations platform developer Agritask has partnered with Hollard Mozambique to expand digital agricultural insurance platform in South Africa.

Agritask Expands Its Digital Agricultural Insurance Platform in Southern Africa by ... As part of our efforts to scale distribution of our index-insurance, we have ...

Cross-industry partnerships are building insurance customer trust during the COVID-19 crisis. Ivo Weterings shares examples and insights.

... home will decrease, and the cost of insurance, and running and maintenance ... gamification or simple creative executions, these strategies will all form part of ...

For this week's podcast we had Christina Lomazzo, Blockchain Lead within the ... Ep. 83 – Addenda – a blockchain motor insurance subrogation ecosystem in ...

Survey shows Covid-19 inspiring innovation in SA short-term insurance sector ... increased the use and efficiency of virtual meetings, and promoted the use of ...

This catalysed a need for a new kind of short-term insurance cover as well. With business unusual taking precedent, many are seeing the benefits of on-demand  ...

SSP is the first insurance technology vendor to make use of the new AWS Africa (Cape Town) Region, which they will utilise for all their African deployment.

Consulta noted that the life insurance industry, like most financial services, face ... “Bancassurance – the process of selling insurance products through banking ...

Let’s be frank. Of Lemonade, Root and Metromile, only the latest figures from Root show the trajectory expected for a startup in growth phase.

The top three insurtechs on the list were US insurtech Lemonade, China's WeSure and ZhongAn Insurance. Tautona was founded in 2017 by John Holdsworth ( ...

South African insurtech startup Inclusivity Solutions has raised US$1.3 million in the second tranche of its Series A funding round to help it expand within its ...

Africa needs to look at intermediate strategies like micro-insurance to ramp up this sector. Healthcare has the ability to make a large percentage of the ...

... rate of insurance in Tanzania in 2020, says Geofray Masige, chief financial officer of Sanlam General Insurance Tanzania. Bancassurance “has the potential to ...

The new funding deal comes off the back of CompariSure's first external investment deal concluded in August 2019 with 4Di Capital, an early-stage tech VC firm. “ ...

Insurance in a Digital Age: Adapting to Change ... Also, almost 50% of Old Mutual customers/brokers today register their own claims digitally. The next step in our ...

Built as a digital start-up in Singapore, Budget Direct Insurance is part of a ... principal businesses are engaged in insurance underwriting, direct insurance ...

Extremely high levels of customer word of mouth and low-cost digital distribution. Bizcommunity What's the biggest challenge you are facing during this pandemic?

Leading Multi-Experience Development Platform, Neutrinos has launched its Digital Insurance Sales Distribution Suite. With the growing COVID19 pandemic, ...

Insureds across Africa have been warned to start talking early to their brokers about upcoming renewals, in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic. James Battersby, chief broking off...

For the highs: stop and celebrate! Further reading. [August 2019] Startup snapshot: Nigerian AI-driven platform helps reduce health insurance fraud

South Africa's first peer-to-peer insurer has set out to reinvent the way insurance is done, with a decentralised peer-to-peer model that aims to reintroduce affinity ...