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Library : Majorel – Bancassurance: How Banks Can Win and Retain Customers
Executive summary : Traditional banks and financial institutions are under great competitive pressure: the low-interest phase is causing a drop in sales, and the PSD2 directive has...
Library : Agency Nation – Learn How to Unlock the Power of Digital in Your Agency
Executive summary : There’s no question that investing in digital technology is good for insurance agencies. According to Liberty Mutual and Safeco’s Rise of the Digital ...
Library: Liberty Mutual – Rise of the Digital Insurance Agency
Executive summary: Digital adoption is reaching a tipping point in the insurance industry. To thrive in the future, agencies must adopt digital ways of doing business. Today’s ...
Library: PropertyCasualty360º – Digital services could displace $280B of traditional premiums by 2025
Executive summary : Demand for digital insurance tools and online distribution is anticipated to displace as much as $280 billion of current insurance revenue by 2025, according to...
Library: Coforge – Future Ready: Multi-Channel Distribution in Life Insurance
Executive summary : How can you differentiate your insurance business and stay ahead of the curve? The answer lies not just in developing excellent products and services, but in ...
Financial Times – Japan’s army of insurance saleswomen feel threat of digital revolution
Executive summary : Coronavirus has accelerated an analogue-digital showdown that Japan had hoped could be postponed for years: the clash between selling insurance online and the ...
Life and Health Employee Benefits – Q3 2020
Welcome to the fourth quarterly edition of Life and Health in Asia, jointly brought to you by TDI and Gen Re. In this edition we have four articles: Our in-depth explores how ...
McKinsey: Ecosystems and platforms: How insurers can turn vision into reality
Executive summary It is no longer news that digital technologies are reshaping customer expectations and redefining industry boundaries. Apple now offers a credit card; Uber ...
IBM: Insurance on the platform
Executive summary The insurance industry has never been famous for rapidly embracing change. As recently as last decade, a researcher proposing simplification of U.S. insurance ...
Coverager: The Part-Time Insurance Agent
Executive summary Evolution acts to produce function, not perfection yet insurance – as a function of product – has remained the same for all those years. And rightly so. It ...
Life and Health O2O Services – Q2 2020
Welcome to the third quarterly edition of Life and Health in Asia, jointly brought to you by TDI and Gen Re. In this edition we have four articles: We lead with an in-depth look at...
O2O services within life and health insurance
Insurers are increasingly pointing to successful O2O services in Asia as a product they aspire to recreate. For many, the region offers a roadmap for innovation as the ubiquity of ...
Assicurazioni Generali: Rise of Digital and Affinity B2B2C Marketing in Insurance – Dealing with a New World
Article Synopsis : The digital revolution is spreading with the fearsome power of the coronavirus. Insurance needs to overhaul its traditional ways of distribution and evolve its...
PwC: Assisted distribution – Changing the face of insurance sales
Article Synopsis : India’s economic development has gone hand in hand with that of the insurance industry, says this report from PwC The last decade has witnessed gross ...
KPMG: The Future of Digital Banking
Article Synopsis : The next 10 years will see more change in the banking industry than in the previous century. Technology is an influence, but it is only one of a number of ...
McKinsey: Digital health ecosystems – a payer perspective
Article Synopsis : This McKinsey report takes an interesting angle about those who pay for healthcare. It says a digital health ecosystem can allow them to take advantage of ...
The rise of digital ecosystems in Asia
This article explores what makes a good ecosystem, where the ecosystem opportunities lie, and how insurers can participate in the rise of ecosystems. It also includes a comparative...
Digital to the Core: Transforming Financial Services and Insurance in the New World of Digital Business Platforms and Ecosystems
Article Synopsis : Financial services and insurance entities must get their act together if they are to benefit from the powerful transformation that digitalisation offers. And ...
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Get the most out of your InsurTech partnership
As they search for new ways to solve businesses challenges, inspire innovation and create and seize new opportunities, insurers worldwide are increasingly teaming up with ...
中国深度：数据分析和人工智能对中国保险的影响
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Deloitte: Insurance of the future – what will it look like in 2025?
Article Synopsis : Belgium has a mature insurance market and as a result, organic growth will be limited in core products. Insurers are aware that digitalisation will have a ...
Digital Bancassurance
Bringing bancassurance into the digital era
Bank and insurance partners must collaborate better to digitally transform insurance delivery With consumers’ financial needs growing more complex – the bancassurance model ...
Hi Fintech, meet InsurTech; Bancassurance, the Friendsurance way
The past and present of bancassurance… The origins of bancassurance can be traced back to France and continental Europe. Today, European countries continue to dominate the $1.2bn...
中国深度：自然巨灾预防
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Digital bancassurance takes off in Europe
Article Synopsis : Digital bancassurance is at the leading edge of the insurtech revolution. Though its breakthrough is anticipated any time from the present moment to within the...
2019 Insurance M&A outlook: Positioning for growth
Article Synopsis : Deloitte anticipated growth in the deal flow for insurance M&A. Though it expected a couple of large $5 billion deals, most were thought to be in the sub ...
China In-Depth: Natural Catastrophe Prevention
要用中文查看此内容，请单击此处 Global insured losses from natural catastrophes in 2018 were $76 billion, the fourth highest on record. Additionally, Asia suffers ...
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Selling Bancassurance in the Digital Age
Article Synopsis : The digital and bancassurance revolution will be an exciting journey in delivering value to customers, bank partners and shareholders. So says Pacific Life Re....
China In-Depth: Ecosystems with life/health
Although Ping An and Zhong An are widely recognised for their ability to establish end-to-end operations and move upstream to secure new distribution channels, these efforts have ...
Insurers come up short for independent agents, despite critical role agents play in driving business
Article Synopsis : It may seem self-evident that the more satisfied an independent insurance agent is with a carrier, the more business they will place with that carrier. ...
Digital ecosystems: extending the boundaries of value creation in life and health insurance
中英文版都有 Technological advances have the potential to radically change the way life insurers interact with consumers and also help them better assess and price risks. The...
Competing in a world of sectors without borders
Article Synopsis : Customers are increasingly demanding products they understand that fit their own specific needs. In order to achieve this, insurers are launching many more ...
Relevance of Mutual and Cooperative Lessons learned from developed Europe and Asia
Article Synopsis : Much of the talk concerning insurtech focuses on the growth of adoption in personal lines and the need for commercial insurers to act now or regret later. ...
Insurers need to make agents the central focus of their digital strategy in order to transform the industry, according to The Digital Ins...
By adopting a “digital-first” mindset for their distribution force, insurers can transform their customer relationships at scale. Research shows that human interaction ...
Legacy-free markets in Asia are becoming InsurTech incubators – Will they transform traditional insurance delivery?
Article Synopsis : The Asian insurance market is set to bypass traditional insurance distribution models, as they will not be held back by legacy infrastructure. Legacy free ...
Insurance beyond digital: The rise of ecosystems and platforms
Article Synopsis : Insurance companies, asserts this monograph from McKinsey, have the opportunity to create new sources of revenue by rethinking their traditional roles and ...
Protected: Case study: TAL Qantas – An Innovative life insurance partnership
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The Rise of Risk Aggregators
Article Synopsis : As risk aggregators disrupt the small-to- medium-sized enterprises (SME) insurance market, insurers face tough choices. Do they take on the aggregators at ...
Changing Role of Advisors in Insurance
Article Synopsis : This whitepaper from Capgemini discusses the factors driving the change in channel usage by consumers, the challenges faced by advisors, (agents and brokers) ...
Getsafe take the Lemonade model a step further
ZhongAn proved that an automated platform can achieve massive scale. Lemonade removed the conflict of interest with their platform approach. Now we have Getsafe and their ...
Segmentation and Technology in the Digital Age: How customer expectations drive effective technology strategies
By Deno W Fischer, Principle, Advisory, Customer Solutions, KPMG in the US Automation. Bots, including chatbots. Apps. AI. Advanced analytics. As innovation advances, new “must ...
Is the rise of the Digital Advisor the new InsurTech game changer?
My-Whole-Life cover makes more sense to customers As a backdrop to this article on the digital advisor, let me take you back nearly two years. In December 2015 I made this ...
The Digital Advisor
Winner of The Digital Insurer’s European Insurance Innovation Award 2017 – Generali
Congratulations to Generali! On 19th September 2017 the final presentations for The Digital Insurer Insurance Innovation Awards were held. In this unique format four finalists ...
Finalist of The Digital Insurer’s European Insurance Innovation Award 2017 – HDI Sigorta
Thank you, HDI Sigorta! On 19th September 2017 the final presentations for The Digital Insurer Insurance Innovation Awards were held. In this unique format four finalists presented...
Finalist of The Digital Insurer’s European Start Up InsurTech Award 2017 – CBien
Thank you, CBien! On 19th September 2017 the final presentations for The Digital Insurer Startup InsurTech Awards were held. In this unique format four finalists presented online ...
RegTech startups make Compliance simple and cost effective
Automating Rules and Principles Regulatory compliance is a massive subject. Too huge to cover in this article, so I’m going to keep it simple. And I’m going to look at it from ...
Peer-to-Peer webinar recording – Poll overwhelmingly concludes that P2P will have an impact on attitudes to claims
Our February 2017 webinar had about 670 registrations from around the globe. This was our ninth webinar as part of our Digital Insurance in Action series, sponsored by KPMG. ...
TDI Webinar Feb 2017 – Peer-to-Peer Insurance & Community
The Peer-to-Peer Insurance & Community webinar was held on 8 February 2017. The agenda includes: How P2P insurance is becoming a market standard Building Insurance Communities...
Is P2P insurance a sustainable business model?
An often asked question is whether P2P will disrupt existing personal lines insurance markets? I do not believe that it will be disruptive in its own right, because I am not ...
P2P, or not P2P: that is the question!
Rick Huckstep talks with Daniel Schreiber, CEO and co-founder of Lemonade Insurance Company for InsurTech Insights It’s a little over two months since Lemonade started selling ...
Analysis of US P&C Insurance Customer-Facing Mobile Apps – Cognizant
Article Synopsis : Advancements in mobile tech and a growing array of smartphone-app toolkits present fresh options to carriers struggling with digital customer engagement. “An...
P2P, or not P2P: that is the question!
It’s a little over two months since Lemonade started selling renters and home owners insurance to New Yorkers. At the time, and to coincide with the September launch, I chatted ...
Leading Digital Engagement Strategy Driven by Mobile – IBM Case Study
Article Synopsis : Major telecom advancements combined with ubiquitous connectivity make mobile the primary point of contact with a growing number of brands. Mobile should no ...
Be Ready for Disruption – Canadian Institute of Actuaries
Article Synopsis : The sharing economy, also referred to as the on-demand economy, has gained traction in the past five years. In “The Sharing Economy – Be Ready for ...
Coming to Terms with Insurance Aggregators – Accenture Report
Article Synopsis : Insurance aggregators have grown as a result of the rising number of tech-savvy consumers who look for value, experience and self-service capabilities online. ...
Haven Life -making life insurance relevant to a digital generation
(Image courtesy of Pexels) The insurance industry couldn’t make it any harder if it tried! Buying life insurance in the U.S. is a painful process. It can take weeks, ...
Introducing Versicherix – Switzerland’s 1st P2P Insurer
P2P Insurance is all about the customer P2P Insurance as we define it today has evolved over the past 6 years. From the Friendsurance model of sharing risk with higher deductibles,...
Direct & Digital Non-Life webinar recording – Poll suggests that insurance aggregators and differentiated online propositions ...
Our second webinar for 2016 had over 300 registrations from around the globe. This was our fifth webinar as part of our Digital Insurance in Action series, sponsored by KPMG. ...
Introducing the Third Wave of Peer-to-Peer Insurance
Peer-to-Peer Insurance has moved on a lot since 2010 and the Friendsurance distribution model. Whilst the insurance world waits to see what Lemonade and Besure bring to the market,...
TDI Webinar Apr 2016 – Direct and Digital Non-Life Insurance in Asia
The Direct and Digital Non-Life Insurance in Asia webinar was held on 13 April 2016. The agenda includes: Direct Life insurance @ FWD A Reinsurance perspective Digital life ...
Can peer-to-peer insurance work in Asia?
The peer-to-peer (P2P) model holds a lot of promise for insurance. I’ll be slightly controversial here and say that it actually might be the first pseudo-innovative ...
Direct & digital life webinar recording – Poll suggests that a digital front-end model will be the most popular in Asia
Our first webinar for 2016 had over 190 attendees from around the globe. This was our fourth webinar as part of our Digital Insurance in Action series, sponsored by KPMG. If ...
TDI Webinar Feb 2016 – Direct and Digital Life Insurance in Asia
The Direct and Digital Life Insurance in Asia webinar was held on 18 February 2016. The agenda includes: Direct Life insurance @ FWD A Reinsurance perspective Digital life ...
RiskGenius – the Google of insurance policies
In the world of commercial insurance, brokers and agents are reviewing policy agreements in their evenings and at weekends. These contract reviews are consuming masses of labor, ...
Partnering for growth in the insurance sector – KPMG
Article Synopsis : Entering an era of unprecedented change in the insurance sector, the vast majority of insurance executives intuitively know they need to be more innovative. At...
Back to the future with P2P Insurance
In a two-part research note for DailyFintech.com, I reviewed the InsurTech protagonists of Peer-to-Peer Insurance. The research notes define P2P Insurance as it is today, reviews ...
InsurTech start-up InsQuik make life insurance simple, quick and convenient
The life insurance industry is antiquated in how it writes business. It takes too long, is too involved and too inefficient…and that is just the insurer’s perspective! This ...
Insurance Aggregators in Asia – Set to grow rapidly – review the webinar
Our recent webinar on the theme of Aggregators was very well attended, thank you to all of you who attended live. This was our first webinar in our Digital Insurance in ...
TDI Webinar Sep 2015 – Aggregators in Insurance
The Aggregators in Insurance webinar was held on 29 September 2015. The agenda includes: Go Bear a new aggregator in Singapore The Digital Insurer InView – CoverHound Compare ...
Why Mobility Matters to U.S. P&C Insurers – Cognizant Report
Article Synopsis : Product differentiation has become increasingly difficult in insurance. As a result insurers are striving for service differentiators such as convenience and ...
Changing social values is driving the Green and Sustainability agenda for Insurers
There is little doubt that the insurance industry has at least one eye firmly focused on the impact of technology. Across all segments of the global insurance market, the key ...
Sales Mobility for Financial Services – Softelligence
Article Synopsis : 42% of the global population will own a smartphone by the end of 2015. The financial sector – insurance specifically – has to catch up with this trend. In ...
Mobility Strategies For Insurers – A WEST MONROE White Paper
Article Synopsis : Mobile devices are increasingly becoming the preferred medium of communication for insurance customers. ‘Mobility’ is no longer a niche or boutique area of...
When insurance is simply a guessing game!
Throughout the last century, the significant majority (90%+) of general insurance products were distributed through intermediaries who represented the insurance company in front of...
Erste Digital’s quest to be the Paypal of Annex Insurance
When you work with start-ups, as I do, it can be truly inspiring to see the determination, ingenuity and adaptability that defines them. And when you’ve spent 35 years in the ...
The Role of Ecosystems in Insurance – Boston Consulting
Article Synopsis : The emergence of ‘ecosystems’ could threaten insurers all along the value chain. A digital ecosystem is a network of companies, individuals, institutions...
Digital touchpoints for Financial Services – Capgemini
Article Synopsis : As most digital innovation is happening outside insurance, this survey on digital touchpoints in banking, wealth management, and retail (as well as insurance) ...
Accenture Technology Vision for Insurance 2015
Article Synopsis : Carriers that embrace the new collaborative economy have an opportunity to enable and monetize disruption, placing them on a path to higher growth. The leaders...
Google Insurance – has it crossed the line?
As the world’s most successful search engine, Google has played a major role in giving anyone with an internet connection easy access to the world’s sum of knowledge…or more ...
Mobile Insurance – Are you well positioned for this emerging channel? – Capgemini report
Article Summary : With the skyrocketing number of customers using mobiles and smartphones, insurers are exploring and investing in ways to deliver services through innovative ...
Google Insurance – ready to launch in the United States?
Google is expanding its insurance distribution capabilities Following some excellent primary research by Forrester analyst Ellen Carney it is becoming clearer that Google is close ...
Insurance Industry Asia 2015: Strategic Priorities for profitable growth – 2 December 2014 in Hong Kong
Strategic Priorities for Profitable Growth The Digital Insurer is pleased to be speaking at the Insurance Com conference on December 2nd 2014 in Hong Kong. The...
Mobile Technology in Insurance: Performance measurement-E&Y
Article Synopsis : Metrics and measurement play a key role in aligning performance with key objectives and enabling companies to stay on course. Insurers are increasingly ...
5 Mobile Opportunity Areas for Insurers – [x]cube LABS Report
Article Synopsis : The pace with which smart phones have risen to prominence has rendered mobility adoption an indisputable choice for insurance carriers. As smart phones ...
Mobile Applications in Life Insurance and Pensions-Capgemini
Article Synopsis : The rapid adoption of mobiles and smart phones by customers poses a challenge for insurers to provide a consistent, integrated omni-channel customer ...
Empowering Agents to Employ Digital – Accenture Report
Article Synopsis : Today’s digital world comprises of many delivery channels, interconnected devices and data streams distributed throughout the enterprise. Empowering agents ...
Winning insurance aggregators: understanding the psychology of consumer choice
In this short article consumer behaviour specialist Philip Graves takes a look at how insurance aggregators can use the psychology of choice to improve their businesses. The ...
Leveraging Mobile Ecosystem to Transform Insurance – Cognizant
Article Synopsis : A growing number of customers are using smart phones to find more information about products and premiums they have to pay in order to buy insurance. Using a ...
Point of Sales Tablet Toolkits – The Digital Insurer
Article Synopsis : In 2013, The Digital Insurer published a one of its kind research based magazine highlighting issues that are pertinent to Asian Digital Insurers. The ...
Insurance Mobility Business Strategy – Cognizant Insight Paper
Article Synopsis : As Mobile and smartphone usage is rising dramatically, the mobile platform is going to overhaul the way insurers do business. Digital customers are spending ...
The Insurance Aggregator in Singapore – Solution Providers
Article Synopsis : Digitisation is gaining ground as a long term solution for the problems that plague the insurance sector. Insurers have traditionally relied on hard selling ...
Digital Insurer Magazine on Tablet Point of Sales Toolkits
In 2013 The Digital Insurer published a magazine highlighting the potential for tablet based point of sales toolkits. The magazine outlines the strategic context for tablet point ...
Digitisation of intermediated insurance distribution – Roland Berger
Article Synopsis : This report from Roland Berger and Efma looks at the digitisation of intermediary based insurance models in Europe. The report makes the following observations ...
Agents of the Future: The Evolution of Distribution – McKinsey
Article Synopsis : The emergence of digital technology and platforms like smart phones, tablets, and cloud-based systems are going to significantly impact the distribution channel...
Dialling in Your Mobile Strategy – Forrester Research
Article Synopsis : Insurers who are still sitting on the fence and analysing the role of mobiles and smart phones in their digitisation strategy have some compelling reasons to ...
Growing Smart phone Use – Opportunity for Insurers in Asia – HAKUHODO
Article Synopsis : Use of smart phones is on the rise and this trend is here to stay. Through its Global HABIT survey, HAKUHODO presents an analysis of smart phone ownership, ...
The Digital Insurer S[email protected] Vietnam – November 2013
The Digital Insurer is looking forward to talking and meeting delegates at the Vietnam Insurance Conference in Ho Chi Minh on 28-29th November. The conference has a good ...
Breaking away from ‘new norms’ – The Digital Insurer @ Asian Insurance Congress – September 11 2013 Singapore
The Digital Insurer is pleased to be a speaker and panellist at the upcoming IDC Financial Insights Congress in Singapore on 11th September 2013. You can view a summary of...
Interview Case Study : Lifebroker – a focused digital specialist
This is the first in what is likely to be an ongoing series of interview based case studies by The Digital Insurer on business models that have incorporated digital thinking. Chris...
The Digital Advisor Business Model: A Transformation Opportunity
In this article we outline a business model, we call it the Digital Advisor, that is intended to equip face-to-face advisors for the opportunities presented by digital technology. ...
The Digital Insurer presents at Allianz Regional Conference
The Digital Insurer was pleased to be invited to talk to Allianz CIO’s and COO’s at a regional conference they held at Sentosa Resorts in May 2013. This was one ...
The Digital Insurer @ Next Bank Asia in Hong Kong – video
The Digital Insurer was pleased to be speaking at the Next Bank Conference in Hong Kong in April 2013. watch the video An extract of the slides is also available (see below)
The Digital Insurer @ APAC Bancassurance Conference in KL – April 2013
The Digital Insurer was please to speak on the impact of digital thinking on bancassurance models in Asia at the Bancassurance & Affinity conference organised by Fleming ...
The Digital Insurer speaks : Next Bank Asia Conference in Hong Kong – 16&17 April 2013
The Digital Insurer is pleased to have been invited to present at this leading conference on how digital thinking can help to transform bancassurance. The talk is titled ” ...
Tablet Toolkit Design: The connectivity debate
This short article looks at one of the “hot” design factors that all insurers need to consider when designing a tablet solution. We examine the issue through the lens of a life...
Barbarians knocking on the digital gates of the insurance industry? – two interesting corporate transactions
Are we starting to see the entry of non financial services players into insurance with new digitally based insurance models? I picked up on two pieces of corporate news last month ...
Digital Advisor Tablets – Increase Sales Effectiveness
At the heart of the Digital Advisor business model is an investment in tablet devices and supporting software. Improve your pre-sales processes including fact-finding, quotation ...
Implementing Tablet Sales Toolkits : Great interface design is a critical success factor
In this article Charles Gregory of Mobile Insurance Solutions, explores the importance of interface design and looks at some of the key design factors that help to ensure high ...
Online Life insurance in Asia : Review of Celent Report
Celent published a report “Life Insurance e-Business : Trends and Best Practices in September 2012. The report starts by outlining the well documented macro trends in the ...
The Digital Insurer speaks : APAC Bancassurance Conference in KL – 9&10 April 2013
The Digital Insurer is pleased to have been invited to present at this conference on the topic of digital insurance. The talk is titled ” Think digital – and transform ...
Non Life is going online in Asia : Review of Celent Report
Celent have published (November 2012) an interesting report on this topic with the title “Property & Casualty Insurance e-business in Asia : Trends and Best ...
BBC Article : existing banking models at threat from digital trends. What can insurers learn?
The BBC article, see link at the end of this post, published last week give a lovely high level analysis of why current banking models are at risk from changes in consumer ...
Book Review : Life Insurance in Asia – Sustaining Growth in the Next Decade
Life Insurance in Asia – Sustaining Growth in the Next Decade By Stephan Binder & Joseph Luc Ngai Published by Wiley (September 2012) Summary Binder & Ngai don’t ...
Implementing a Tablet Sales Tool for Advisor Salesforces : an Implementation Guide from The Digital Insurer
In this article we address the main implementation issues that you can expect as you look to implement a tablet sales tool. The article is developed with a life insurance sales ...
The Digital Advisor Business Model – Presentation from The Digital Insurer
The Digital Insurer was pleased to present at the recent CIO Conference in Singapore – see press coverage. The presentation looked at the digital advisor business model ...
Best Practices For Advisor Portals
In this article we explore how insurance companies can develop and execute an effective Advisor portal that can enhance sales effectiveness, improve customer servicing and make ...
Insurance Technology
The Digital insurer maintains close relationships with insurance technology solution providers New insurance business models cannot be developed in isolation of the technology ...
Asia 2017 Session Review – Digital Insurance Around The World
The Digital Insurer Asia Annual Conference 2017, held in Singapore in November, was a one-day flagship digital insurance innovation event that brought our community in Asia ...
Asia 2017 Session Review – Digital Distribution
The Digital Insurer Asia Annual Conference 2017, held in Singapore in November, was a one-day flagship digital insurance innovation event that brought our community in Asia ...
Ace partners with Vivo, a Brazilian Telecom Company
Aegon Life focuses on D2C digital distribution
Aegon Life, a joint venture between global insurer Aegon and Bennett Coleman & Co of India, is diminishing the role the agency and Bancassurance channels to focus exclusi...
Ageas Financial Needs Analysis tool, Hong Kong
AIA and Citi reinforce partnership with digital insurance solution
In Malaysia, Citi and AIA have collaborated to launch an end-to-end digital channel that allows Citi customers to purchase AIA’s suite of insurance products and solutio...
AIA Interactive Digital Platform
AIA Singapore introduces AIA Vitality
AIG Asia-Pacific distribution focused policy fulfilment platform
AIG to snap up life specialist Ellipse from Munich Re
AIG is acquiring Ellipse, a group life insurer previously run by Munich Re. The transaction is subject to regulatory approval and will be closed in Q1 2019.
Launched...
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...
Allianz BCG launch an app for expectant Chinese mothers
Allianz declares strategic partnership with American telehealth platform
A Boston-based telehealth platform called American Well has received US$59.2m investment from Allianz X, the digital investment unit of Allianz. The partnersh...
Allianz1 – Insurance customisation in real time in Italy
Allianz1 is a new initiative from Allianz Italy. The platform essentially allows consumers to design and tailor policies based on “building blocks” from P&C, life and hea...
Arch Insurance invests in InsurTech Archipelago
In the UK, Arch Insurance International has invested into MGA InsurTech startup Archipelago Risk Services, which deals with personal lines to serve mid- to high-net-worth cus...
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...
TDI Webinar – June 2019 – Digital Bancassurance
The Digital Bancassurance webinar was held on 11th June 2019. The agenda included: Why is digital bancassurance on the agenda What is the infrastructure needed for the digital ...
Asia rising – the hothouse for insurance innovation? panel session – Global LIVEFEST 2018
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Young Yang from ZhongAn speaks @ Asia rising – the hothouse for insurance innovation? panel session – Global LIVEFEST 2018
Watch Young Yang from ZhongAn speak @ Asia rising – the hothouse for insurance innovation? panel session – Global LIVEFEST 2018 about how ZhongAn is offering solutions for ...
Frank DesVignes from AXA Labs speaks @ Asia rising – the hothouse for insurance innovation? panel session – Global LIVEFEST 2018
Watch Frank DesVignes from AXA Labs speak @ Asia rising – the hothouse for insurance innovation? panel session – Global LIVEFEST 2018 about a unique global innovation ...
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...
AXA’s Health Keeper Platform
Axieme – Peer-to-peer insurance in Italy
Peer-to-peer (P2P) insurance is a popular business model right now within digital insurance. From Lemonade – the carrier, to Friendsurance – the broker and Tongju...
Baobei – B2B inurtech provider from China
Baobei is a B2B inurtech provider that equips traditional brokers and insurance startups with quote generation, fulfillment and transaction capabilities. With more and more o...
Simon Phipps from The Digital Insurer speaks @ Digital Insurance around the world panel session – Global LIVEFEST 2018
Watch Simon Phipps from The Digital Insurer speaks @ Digital Insurance around the world panel session – Global LIVEFEST 2018 about PingAn as Global challenger based on ...
Andrew Dart from The Digital Insurer speaks @ Digital Insurance around the world panel session – Global LIVEFEST 2018
Watch Andrew Dart from The Digital Insurer speaks @ Digital Insurance around the world panel session – Global LIVEFEST 2018 about Cover Genius as Global challenger providing ...
Generali signs deal to acquire majority stake in Indian JV
Italian insurance major Generali has signed agreements to acquire a majority stake in both its life and P&C joint ventures in India.
Tokio Marine backs May Mobility
May Mobility is a self-driving shuttle startup.
Clear Group buys Ashford-based broker
Clear makes first acquisition of the year as it snaps up Kent Insurance Brokers.
High Street Insurance Partners buys US-based Insurance Se...
High Street Insurance Partners has closed the acquisition of US-based Insurance Services Group , a full-service insurance brokerage firm.
Howden bolsters Italian reach via Tower deal
UK-based insurance broker Howden has taken over peer Tower to strengthen its footprint in the Italian market.
HawkSoft and vipHomeLink Partner on Proactive Home Mainte...
Independent insurance agents can leverage vipHomeLink to enhance the protection they offer their insureds, expanding the care beyond coverage and into proactive home maintenance.
Appulate forms alliance with AllDigital Specialty
American digital insurance platform Appulate has joined forces with AllDigital Specialty to facilitate the expansion of the digital network.
One80 Intermediaries buys Pearl Insurance
Speciality insurance broker One80 Intermediaries (One80) has acquired Pearl Insurance for an undisclosed sum to expand its presence.
Tarmika Announces Integration with Central Insurance for ...
Tarmika is thrilled to announce a Central Insurance as a new carrier partner. With this partnership, agents appointed with Central will be able to quote
Saudi Arabian insurer Walaa taps eBaoTech for digital tra...
Walaa Cooperative Insurance Company (Walaa) has selected eBaoTech’s digital insurance solution to enhance its capabilities.
CPP Group UK buys travel specialist Alpha Underwriting
The deal includes Alpha’s general insurance broker network and broker portal, and CPP says it is set to add more products to the portal within the next quarter.
Jackson Lee updates Sports Travel Plus policy
The scheme is now available for groups and teams competing and training overseas and includes cover for Covid-19.
Highland Capital Brokerage acquires Hallett Financial Gro...
Hallett Financial is a full-service, multi-carrier independent brokerage agency focusing on life, annuity, disability and long-term care products.
Westland acquires brokerages in Ontario, Alberta
Westland Insurance has announced its first brokerage acquisitions of 2022 — Bunnell Hitchon Insurance Brokers in Ontario, and Rigby Insurance in Alberta. Bunnell Hitchon, in Bra...
Nubank launches new insurance product
Coverage is provided by Chubb.
Coterie Insurance Announces Next Class of Insurance Schol...
Two insurance scholarship programs help agents continue their education efforts Coterie Insurance today announced its next class of insurance scholarship
Aviva and Prestige Underwriting agree fresh panel deal
The fresh motor and van agreement runs until 2026 and sees Prestige re-enter the non-standard motor space.
Holmes Murphy Live with Fraternal Program on Nexsure Insu...
The XDimensional Technologies platform will enable the super-retional broker to streamline the processing and management of the program.
GloveBox pioneers the “CXP” as a next-generat...
The Client Experience Platform, or "CXP", is a system that provides agencies with an efficient way to deliver client services. The platform includes tools
Markerstudy buys BGL Insurance
The transaction is expected to complete during the first half of 2022 and follows hot on the heels of Markerstudy's deal for Lloyd's broker Clegg Gifford.
Aston Lark makes first deal of 2022
Consolidator buys Mainstay Insurance, a commercial broker headquartered in Hove.
Next Insurance launches mobile app
The app is available for existing customers.
MAPFRE to Invest €171M from Bankia Transaction to Acceler...
The insurer will use the funds to accelerate transformation in Spain and Italy, optimize financial structure, and dedicate €100M to a voluntary retirement program over the next ...
Insurance Institute of Ontario- Condominium Insurance
Condo insurance is an often misunderstood product. Misconceptions are common and many stem from confusion about coverage provided by the Condo Corporation’s insurance vs. the un...
Ardonagh to buy MDS Group
The deal furthers the broker’s plan to expand its worldwide reach after revealing fresh investment from the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority earlier this month.
Tarmika Announces Partnership with Combined Agents of Ame...
Tarmika is thrilled to announce a new partnership with Combined Agents of America (CAA) to bring an enhanced quoting solution to their network of
Now Open: AIA Vitality Hub – the first health and wellnes...
Hong Kong’s WeLab is “going big in Indonesia”
WeLab’s Jessica Lam explains how the group is building an Indonesian digital bank alongside its H.K. one.
Herald raises $8 million in seed funding to build digital...
Herald, a digital infrastructure that connects developers to insurance carriers through a single API announced $8 million in new funding. The round was led by Lightspeed Venture...
Agentero expands offering for agents adding 4 new persona...
Agentero, the digital insurance network, has expanded its personal and commercial offerings for independent agents, announcing new integrations with four leading insurance marke...
MoneyLion to acquire Even Financial
Even Financial is backed by MassMutual.
Matic partners with HSBC
Matic’s insurance marketplace of over 40 A-rated carriers will be integrated into HSBC Wealth and Personal Banking offerings.
Insurance fintech Bestow signs first enterprise deal with...
The direct-to-consumer startup will power an entirely digital policy only available through the insurer’s agents and advisors.
Verisk’s Sequel launches new distribution solution
Insurance software specialist, Sequel a Verisk Business, has announced the development of a new solution designed to simplify the distribution of
BRP launches AlphaRoot, targeting Cannabis industry
AlphaRoot's management liability insurance program is calibrated to the cannabis industry.
Goosehead Insurance Offers Life Insurance Via Partnership...
The agency has broadened its offering though integration between its Digital Agent platform and Ethos life to provide a seamless way for clients to shop for life insurance.
Build your open insurance ecosystem
An open insurance ecosystem can help you connect with partners to build valuable relationships with your customers. Read this content to learn about some key considerations for ...
Sequel Launches Hub to Enable Greater Efficiency in Speci...
The Verisk subsidiary reports that Sequel Hub has launched with over 10 carriers and two of the top three brokers.
Hubb buys insurtech provider Digital Fineprint
Broker says the deal will enable it to expediate the quotation process, provide a more bespoke service for its customers, and offer risk insight to quoting
Westland makes two more acquisitions
Westland Insurance Group Ltd. has announced the acquisition of two brokerages in the Canadian Prairies: Church Eaton Insurance of Calgary and Hook Lafrance Insurance in Regina. ...
Specialist property insurance and debt advisory broker la...
Co-founders Jack Bristow, Johnny Leadsom and James Mole say they aim to make it quicker and more effective for property developers to get both the insurance and
Exploring the implicit impact of distribution channel M&#...
The high volume of distribution channel M&A transactions among brokers, MGAs, aggregators, and other producers has been a driving force of change for the insurance industry. Thi...
Understanding similarities and differences is key to succ...
If P&C brokers are to succeed in the employee benefits space, both sides of the business need to fully understand the similarities and differences between them, a P&C group bene...
AbbeyAutoline strives for growth in commercial
Jackie Elliott talks to Insurance Age about her new role as commercial director and gives insight into the state of the market and the company’s plans for the
Swiss Re Corporate Solutions Launches Workers’ Comp for M...
With coverage by Swiss Re Elevate, the offering initially targeting the U.S. hospitality, manufacturing, professional services, real estate and wholesale/retail segments through...
Motor insurer ERS launches API trading with Verex
Specialist motor insurer ERS has announced the launch of a new digital, full-cycle API trading capability called Plug in to ERS, alongside Verex, a
BrokerUnion Opens New Barrie Branch, Replicating Their OT...
TORONTO, ON, NOVEMBER 24, 2021/insPRESS/ – BrokerUnion is excited to announce the opening of their new branch located in Barrie, Ontario. Following in BrokerUnion’s business mod...
New Branch Manager and Vancouver office expands West Coas...
VANCOUVER, BC, NOVEMBER 23, 2021/insPRESS/ – CHES Special Risk today announced that it has significantly strengthened its West Coast presence with the appointment of a new Branc...
GRP’s Alan & Thomas buys Aquilla
Alan & Thomas is the southern hub business for Global Risk Partners.
New Head of Revenue joins Semsee
Semsee, the automated small commercial quoting platform for agents and carriers, announced today that Zack Yurch has joined the company as Head of
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