Google Tanslate

Select Language

Sign up and be the first to know

About Hugh Terry & The Digital Insurer

Hugh Terry & The Digital Insurer Video

Contact Us

1 Scotts Road
#24-10 Shaw Centre
Singapore 228208

Write an article

Get in touch with the editor Martin Kornacki

email your ideas at [email protected]

Pre Registration Popup

itcasia2020 Registration Popup

Share Popup

Prime Member: Find out more

Access a unique programme!
  • 56 pre recorded lesson of online content from industry experts over 7 courses
  • The best in digital insurance for practitioners and by practtioners
  • Online MCQ after each lesson
  • Join the discussion forum and make new friends
  • Certificate upon completion to show your expertise and comitment
  • 3 months to complete
  • Normal price US$1,400 Your Prime member price is US$999
  • Access to future versions included in your Prime membership!
Become a member

Prime Member: Contact Us

Reach out to us. Please fill up the form below
Let us know how we can help. You can expect a response within 24 hours
Services of interest
Untitled

Arthur D. Little

Arthur D. Little has been at the forefront of innovation since 1886. We are an acknowledged thought leader in linking strategy, innovation and transformation in technology-intensive and converging industries. We enable our clients to build innovation capabilities and transform their organizations. ADL is present in the most important business centers around the world. We are proud to serve most of the Fortune 1000 companies, in addition to other leading firms and public sector organizations. For further information, please visit www.adlittle.com

Blockchain accelerates insurance transformation

Article Synopsis :

Though we’re still ‘early days’ for blockchain in the insurance sector, clear evidence from across the financial services industry strongly suggests blockchain technologies are capable of delivering greater efficiency, growth and competitive advantage. This paper from KPMG explores how blockchain is working its way into the insurance mainstream.

 The Digital Insurer reviews KPMG’s Report on Blockchain accelerates insurance transformation

Insurers are beginning to take blockchain seriously for internal and external use cases

What is blockchain?

Blockchain is essentially a permanent and immutable record of transactions within a network. At the root of the blockchain are ‘digital ledgers’ distributed amongst all network participants to serve collectively as a common source of truth. When a transaction is conducted, it is recorded in sequence in the digital ledger and these ‘blocks’ are then tied together into a ‘chain’.

Since the system relies on references to other blocks–cryptographically secure within the digital ledger—it’s almost impossible to falsify. Most observers therefore believe the system to be immensely more trustworthy and transparent than traditional approaches to sharing data across a value chain or even within an enterprise.

While blockchain technology can be applied within virtually any industry, financial services organizations have been the most active innovators. In fact, since early 2014, more than 40 financial services firms (or their strategic investment arms) have invested in a blockchain or related startup.

How is the insurance sector responding?

AXA, USAA, Lloyd’s, Allianz, AIA, New York Life, MSIG, SwissRe, John Hancock, and Manulife are all testing blockchain applications. Blockchain use cases typically fall into two broad categories:

  1. Internal use cases: These do not rely heavily on network effects but typically aim to improve internal efficiency in order to reduce cost to serve. These initiatives can also deliver significant top-line revenue growth. Top-line growth generated by internal process simplification may in fact exceed expected operating cost reduction.
  1. Industry use cases: These typically rely more on network effects and require wider industry or cross-industry buy-in. Within insurance, the most influential blockchain consortia is currently B3i, announced by Allianz, Aegon, Munich Re, Swiss Re and Zurich in October 2016. This initiative is aimed at sharing ideas, testing use cases and pursuing concepts related to the wider insurance sector.

More specifically, popular insurance use cases include:

  • Travel and life insurance: Develop a ‘pay as you travel’ insurance model that provides immediate payouts in the event of delays or cancellation
  • Personal accident insurance: Create a transparent and seamless claims journey that dramatically improves customer satisfaction
  • Record keeping: Leverage blockchain to create, organize and maintain company records in a single, reliable and accessible repository
  • Digital identities: Use blockchain data and digital ledgers to digitize and validate customer information and improve compliance
  • Claims management: Automate the verification of coverage and streamline claims settlement to improve operational efficiency and remove costs
  • Reinsurance claims: Allow for the automation of straightforward claims triggered by smart reinsurance contracts and models
  • Surety insurance: Create a ‘golden source’ of information on surety bonds that is available in real-time to all participants
  • Peer-to-Peer insurance: Build a peer-to-peer network to establish smart contracts without the need for an intermediary or administrator

Over time, blockchain is likely to significantly impact the following insurance processes:

  • Claims management
  • Reserve calculation
  • Reinsurance
  • Underwriting
  • Fraud, risk determination

There are many ways insurers can start preparing for the disruptive impact of blockchain. The report suggests five specific actions executives can take today to pursue value with this potentially game-changing technology:

  1. Educate yourself, your executive team and your decision makers about the disruptive potential and threat posed by blockchain.
  2. Develop a strategy and roadmap for implementing blockchain within the enterprise and with other third parties.
  3. Nurture, foster, incubate, partner, invest or acquire blockchain and digital ledger skills and capabilities.
  4. Get involved in industry blockchain and digital ledger partnerships, consortia, standard setting bodies and other collaborations as early as possible.
  5. Identify and qualify specific blockchain use cases based on a 100% focus on ROI and robustness of business case.

Link to Full Article:: click here

Digital Insurer's Comments

What makes blockchain so potentially disruptive is that it’s a foundational technology, not just an app or a peripheral tool. You can build entirely new structures from blockchain fundamentally redefining how work gets done.

For example, JP Morgan Chase moves $7 trillion around the globe each day and they’re using blockchain for the $4 trillion transferred between their own bank branches. It’s conceivable blockchain becomes the industry standard for inter-bank transfers within the next ten years. We’re not saying it’s going to happen, but we are saying it can happen, and the massive potential scope of the shift tells you why you need to think seriously about blockchain technology now.

Link to Source:: click here

Comments

Livefest 2019 Register Popup Event

Livefest 2019 Already Registered Popup Event

Livefest 2019 Join Live Logged-in Not Registered

Livefest 2019 Join Live Not Logged-in