September 2017
Articles
Alipay free health insurance
In a bid to increase its market share in China’s burgeoning personal insurance industry, Alipay has launched a reward points based free health insurance service in collaborat...
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...
AXA, Alibaba and Ant Financial – New ecosystem
AXA, Alibaba and Ant Financial Services have agreed a global partnership to jointly explore opportunities to distribute AXA’s products via Alibaba’s global ecommerce ecosyste...
John Hancock – Ecosystem play with Discovery Vitality
John Hancock is the first US life insurance company to offer an integrated health/wellness programme bundled with life insurance component. The wellness program, offered in c...
LifeSmart – Connected home applications for China
LifeSmart is a Hanzhou based smart home appliance manufacturer that is using advanced sensors to hasten the onset of the ‘connected home’, where everyday household appliances...
Paytm – Insurance cover for the e-wallet
Alibaba-backed digital payments and e-commerce platform Paytm has recently launched a new e-wallet insurance product  to cover users of the Paytm Wallet in the event of theft...
Riskeys
Riskeys is a Shanghai based aggregator that is targeting the health and life segment with a new approach to customer acquisition. Specifically, the intensity of competition i...
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 ...
Zenefits – HR platform with benefits
Revamped Zenefits is currently putting its regulatory woes behind it and offering an all-in-one digital, cloud-based HR platform for small and medium businesses, with a parti...