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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Integration of Sapiens ReinsuranceMaster aims to streamline, simplify and enable more efficient, less manual management of Old Mutual Insure’s complex reinsurance contracts.

One of the largest core transformations in APAC, the implementation includes more than 90 products across personal and commercial lines, integrating more than 50 third-party sys...

13 hours ago ... Sapiens' extensive industry experience, together with its comprehensive range of insurance products for the bancassurance sector, will empower the client to ...

Sapiens’ IDITSuite enables one of South Africa’s top five banks to align with the latest, market-leading trends and to better serve its digitally empowered consumers.

10 hours ago ... South African insurtech startup Naked, a fully digital insurance platform offering comprehensive and instant cover for cars, homes, contents, and standalone ...

South African insurtech platform Naked has raised $11 million in a Naspers-led round. Existing investors, Yellowwoods and Hollard, also participated in the funding round. This c...

Naked offers car, home, renters, and single-item insurance

AXA Group reported higher revenues across its business, driven by improving pricing and market conditions, with its AXA XL business on-track for its

24 hours ago ... Pineapple, a car insurance insurtech startup based in Johannesburg, South Africa, has received US$5.3mn in a Series A funding round secured from investors.

3 hours ago ... CEO of Allianz Insurance, Darlington Munhuwani, has called on African innovators aiming to provide insurance services to focus more digital distribution.

Founded in 2017, Ctrl is "South Africa’s first independent digital short term insurance advisor".

11 hours ago ... Naspers, the internet group, has put R34 million into the insurtech sector in digital insurance advice platform, Ctrl, as part of the group's R1.4 billion commi...

The promotion is part of several leadership appointments across Europe, the Middle East and Africa region

That study found that drivers who opt into telematics-based auto insurance ... The report also describes a creative approach to lowering risk: gamification, which ...

TORONTO, MAY 28, 2021/insPRESS/ – PLATFORM Insurance Management Inc., (“PLATFORM”) a forward-looking Specialty Lines insurance brokerage, recently announced the appointment of T...

Lami, a Kenyan digital insurance technology (insurtech) startup has raised $1.8 million to ... Low insurance uptake is partly due to the traditional distribution and ...

The main change noted is that the startup let go of its mobile app. Also, it seems they stopped offering travel and bike insurance. 

To get a quote, shoppers are asked to enter their name, contact details, ID, and number plate or VIN number. 

Africa Specialty Risks, a pan-African focused reinsurance group, has announced the launch of a new parametric underwriting division with two key hires

Content services platforms help companies to drive and succeed in their journey to achieve true digital transformation.

The future of UBI products includes AI-supported solutions, connected cars, car-sharing providers, and more!

Join CB Insights Principal Insurance Analyst Mike Fitzgerald and Head of Telematics, Ilan Ossin, from Discovery Insurance on April 8th and 11am ET for a conversation on what the...

2020 hits a new high for the insurtech world: global investment in the sector hit $7.1 billion, a 12% increase. Property & Casualty and Life & Health the leading sectors 

A new hail catastrophe risk model has been launched by Willis Re, to quantify the risk from damaging hail events across South Africa. Developed in collaboration with Willis Rese...

Launched in 2019, TymeBank offers a transactional bank account with zero or low monthly fees and a savings product.

Howden is to rebrand South African broker Matrix, following last year’s acquisition of the company. It will take the parent company’s name. In the past seven years, Matrix MIRB,...

Exploring the current digital shift in insurance in South Africa & how changing ... transformation characteristics in common: Differentiated, digital distribution, ...

LifeQ's unique combination of longitudinal, high coverage, high resolution tracking of numerous lifestyle and physiological signals enables the development of ...

Insurance is provided exclusively by 1Life Insurance, the life insurance company established in 2006 and owned by Telesure Investment Holdings.

The top risks concerning businesses in Africa are pandemic outbreak (first with 36% of responses), business interruption (moves from first to second with 36%) and cyber incident...

Insurtech ThingCo has garnered £3m ($4m) investment from BHL(UK) Holdings to boost its telematics solutions after an eventful year.

We sat down with Matthew Elan Smith, Founder of Pineapple, a peer-to-peer scheme serving the short-term insurance market.

The pandemic forced businesses to increasingly rely on digital technology to enable workers to work remotely. For the insurance industry, it entailed online claim ...

The article by Jacobs et al focuses on the important, but understudied, topic of peer-to-peer support for older adults. As the world's population ages, we need.

A multifactor risk tool, developed by the Gen Re team, considers psychosocial factors, as well as selected questions from the self-efficacy scale, in the terms offered.

South African insurtech startup OneSpark, which says it is providing tech-based insurance products for the main market, has launched operations and secured a  ...

By Regtech Africa 11 mins ago 8 views. 0. virtual card blog ... Cyber insurance grows in popularity as ransomware attacks become more frequent. By Regtech ...

IoT.nxt and partner Gilela Business Innovations have developed a fire control panel monitoring solution, now live at 25 sites across SA.

Micro-insurance is key in driving transformation and inclusion as it addresses financial inclusion and promotes the formation and development of regulated and  ...

Tia’s market presence expected to help Sapiens improve its position also in South Africa and the Baltics markets.

Trend #1 Claiming Digital Distinction. The focus in 2020 will be on the claims experience, and how insurers are leveraging in-house and third-party tech and data ...

An insurance company with operations in Australia, South Africa and New ... of engaged employees Youi has long embraced gamification which provides points  ...

The Role of InsurTech in microfinance penetration. Colorful and busy Lagos in Balogun Market. Nigeria has been identified as a country with tremendous potential ...

Disruption taking place through isolated digital innovations are a thing of the ... digital marketing to onboarding, and underwriting through to claim payments?

The study assessed the impact of microinsurance on the household welfare measured as household income per capita. The analysis draws on the nationally  ...

Could telemedicine be the solution to a lack of mental health assistance in Africa?

“We are targeting to offer bancassurance services in all 15 branches across the country by the end of this year. The insurance solutions span across motor ...

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.