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Africa Re: The case for blockchain technology in the African insurance industry

Executive summary : Over the years, the insurance industry has been one of the late adopters of technology across its value chain. However, this has improved in the recent past ...

Blockchain: A Golden Opportunity to Transform Re/insurance in Latin America

Blockchain technology’s potential for disrupting the re/insurance industry is frequently mentioned and given the nature and volume of data which flows between the insured, ...

Institute and Faculty of Actuaries: Understanding blockchain for insurance use cases

Executive summary The Risk Management in a Digital World Working Party undertook an industry survey in December 2017 to better understand the views and activity in relation to ...

Interview: Gavin Li, CEO, Bihubao

This month we spoke with Gavin Li, CEO of Chinese insurtech Bihubao. Q1) How has insurtech changed this year in your view? This year has seen a maturity of the market and some ...

Aon, Oxfam, Etherisc agriculture insurance blockchain makes first payouts

Aon, Oxfam and Etherisc’s blockchain solution for agriculture insurance has announced its very first payouts in Sri Lanka. The solution was aimed at providing farmers access ...

Minsheng Life partners with open-source blockchain infrastructure project

Wanxiang Blockchain and the PlatON global computing network have together launched an open source blockchain infrastructure PlatONE. The platform uses cryptographic algorithm...

Insurwave onboards Xceptor to digitise speciality insurance

Insurwave which is a JV between EY and Guardtime is the world’s first marine insurance blockchain platform, built in close association with Maersk, Microsoft and MS Amlin, am...

Blockchain on the block – Interview with Prof. Dr. Sandner, Frankfurt School of Finance and Management

Blockchain technologies are promising to revolutionise the world of insurance and finance. Facebook’s announcement to launch its own cryptocurrency by the name of Libra will only...

Using blockchain to reimagine health information exchange in India: PwC

Article Synopsis : With the use cases for using blockchain for electronic billing, prescriptions, health data and a single countrywide medical record for each citizen being ...

TDI Webinar – March 2019 – Blockchain & Insurance: The end, or just the beginning?

The Blockchain & Insurance: The end, or just the beginning? webinar was held on 28th March 2019. The agenda included: How are blockchain investment levels currently tracking ...

The Digital Insurer Webinar Infographic: AI Powered Insurer

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The Digital Insurer Webinar Infographic: Blockchain & Insurance: The end, or just the beginning?

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Blockchain: Emerging use cases for insurance

Article Synopsis : Blockchain has so far failed to take root in insurtech. However, some first movers – the author calls them ‘trailblazers’ – are looking to blockchain...

Blockchain: Opportunities for private enterprises in emerging markets

Article Synopsis : This updated report first published a year ago now includes three new chapters on the potential impact of blockchain in emerging markets. The one we are ...

How Blockchain Will Transform Healthcare

Article Synopsis : Blockchain has struggled to find a viable application within insurtech, but it is likely to have a profound effect on the healthcare sector according to this ...

Everledger’s Pioneering Blockchain Work for Diamonds

Everledger, a London-based blockchain company, has applied blockchain technology to over 1.6mn diamonds effectively creating a digital twin of the object. This established re...

Blockchain – Friend or Foe? panel session – Global LIVEFEST 2018

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Nicole Mwesigwa from NiMONiKs speaks @ Blockchain – Friend or Foe? panel session – Global LIVEFEST 2018

Watch Nicole Mwesigwa from NiMONiKs speak @ Blockchain – Friend or Foe? panel session – Global LIVEFEST 2018 about their blockchain based product iCover which leverages smart, ...

Terry Shane from bIOTAsphere speaks @ Blockchain – Friend or Foe? panel session – Global LIVEFEST 2018

Watch Terry Shane from bIOTAsphere @ Blockchain – Friend or Foe? panel session – Global LIVEFEST 2018 talk about the Proof of Concept using IOTA that is grabbing attention in ...

Mark Wales from Galileo Platforms speaks @ Blockchain – Friend or Foe? panel session – Global LIVEFEST 2018

Watch Mark Wales from Galileo Platforms speak @ Blockchain – Friend or Foe? panel session at Global LIVEFEST 2018. He talks about how Galileo Platforms is using blockchain ...

Livefest 2018 Global Session – Blockchain – Friend or Foe? – Presentation by NIMONIKS

NiMONiKs Nicole Mwesigwa @ LIVEFEST 2018 Global Panel Session – Blockchain – Friend or Foe?

Livefest 2018 Global Session – Blockchain – Friend or Foe? – Presentation by bIOTAsphere

bIOTAsphere TERRY SHANE @ LIVEFEST 2018 Global Panel Session – Blockchain – Friend or Foe?

PAL Network Pitch – LIVEFEST 2018 ASIAN & ANZ InsurTech Startup Awards

Watch Val Ji-hsuan Yap, CEO & Founder, PAL Network talk about becoming the insurance for cyber assets using blockchain technology to bring insurance into cryptospace. PAL ...

Marsh Develops Blockchain Solution for Clients in Sharing Economy

Marsh is working with Evident, a data security provider recently acquired by Palo Alto Networks to develop its first blockchain-based verification solution for clients in the...

Marsh Makes Blockchain Proof of Insurance Accessible Through Salesforce

Marsh and IBM are expanding their collaboration with industry-wide access to its first commercial blockchain solution for proof of concept tests.

The solution aims to ...

AXA teams up with Shanghai’s GRE for blockchain insurance

AXA Lab Asia and Global Risk Exchange (GRE) are developing a blockchain-based parametric insurance solution to equip agriculture producers to fight against extreme-weather ri...

Reinsurers plan to establish joint blockchain platform

China Re, Hannover Re, General Reinsurance Corporation and Zhong An have announced plans to create a joint reinsurance blockchain platform to mitigate the problems faced by i...

IBM working on blockchain with insurance broker Marsh

Marsh MacLennan is currently working with IBM to develop a commercial blockchain solution to enable in an insurance verification process. The companies have also onboarded an...

iXledger’s new platform provides insurance for companies embarcing blockchain

iXledger is a UK-based startup founded in 2017, which has launched a platform that allows companies embracing blockchain to obtain business insurance quotes based on a risk a...

World’s first blockchain platform for marine insurance now in commercial use

Willis Towers Watson, XL Catlin, MS Amlin, ACORD, EY, Guardtime, A.P. Møller-Maersk, and Microsoft have announed the launch of the world’s first blockchain platform cal...

Blocksure Goes Live with Covéa Insurance and Commercial & General

Blocksure is a London-based startup which has developed a blockchain based admin system that can work alongside or replace insurers’ legacy systems and displaces the ma...

ANZ, IBM and Suncorp Develop a Blockchain Insurance Solution in New Zealand

ANZ, IBM, and Suncorp New Zealand have developed a blockchain based solution designed to reconcile transactions between brokers and insurers.

This particular distribut...

ANZ, IBM and Suncorp Develop a Blockchain Insurance Solution in New Zealand

Insurer Beazley to launch blockchain registry with Bitfury, Lloyd’s broker and Emericon

Insurer Beazley has partnered with Risk Cooperative, an insurance broker which supports Lloyd’s London programs; in addition to Bitfury Group which is a blockchain tech...

Blockchain for Insurance

For this month’s InsurTech Insights, Rick Huckstep looks at blockchain in insurance

Blockchain Innovation in the Insurance Industry

Everybody’s doing it There are over 1,000 blockchain technology companies listed on Venture Scanner. Between them they have raised over $8bn in funding, mostly since the start of...

How blockchain is tackling insurance industry challenges

After years of excited predictions, at last we are seeing the emergence of solid blockchain use cases in banking, and other industries. Current trends show that greater blockchain ...

TDI Chaingang Webinar Aug 2018 – Blockchain applications for Insurance

The Blockchain applications for Insurancewebinar was held on 29 August 2018. The agenda includes: ‘State of the Nations’: Enterprise & Startup level perspectives on global ...

Blockchain and Smart Contracts for Insurance: Is the Technology Mature Enough?

Article Synopsis : Is blockchain technology—specifically smart contracts—mature enough for the insurance industry? This white paper from MDPI is an objective, scholarly ...

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 ...

Inmediate signs MOU with MSIG Insurance to spearhead new insurance ecosystem

MSIG Singapore has signed an MoU with Inmediate, a smart insurance network founded by Insurance Market Group to expand the creation of a new insurance ecosystems.

MSIG...

MetLife demos health parametric insurance

In Singapore, Metlife’s LumenLab showcased a demo of Vitana – a new parametric insurance app that aims to be Singapore’s first gestational diabetes protection for expec...

India – Life insurers work to develop industry-wide blockchain solution

In India, Cognizant has teamed up with a consortium of life insurers to develop a blockchain solution to facilitate cross-company data sharing. The distribute...

Unblocking Blockchain

Article Synopsis : Blockchain remains a raging hot topic in financial services. Over $1.9 billion has been invested in over 800 blockchain startups. Some of the largest players ...

Growth Opportunities for Blockchain in Healthcare

Article Synopsis : This presentation from Frost & Sullivan evaluates the application potential of blockchain for three healthcare stakeholder groups: Medical Devices ...

Blockchain: A Catalyst for the Next Wave of Progress in the Life Sciences Industry by Cognizant

Article Synopsis : “Blockchain: A Catalyst for the Next Wave of Progress in Life Sciences,” from Cognizant, explores how by applying shared ledgers, smart contracts and ...

中国在保险领域的数据区块链部署

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中国展望：为何数据区块链对保险而言不仅仅是炒作的10个理由

To view this content in English click here 本月瑞士再保险公司的Paul Meeusen与Jags Rao认为数据区块链技术对保险行业而言是一个游戏规则改变者。 ...

监管科技（Regtech）内的数据区块链

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区块链铅笔公司（BlockchainB）的James Gong谈数据区块链

To view this content in English click here 区块链铅笔公司（BlockchainB）的James Gong谈数据区块链 ...

本月保险科技推荐公司：公证通（Factom）

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China Insight: Realising the potential of distributed ledger technologies in insurance

中英文版都有 In the last 2 years, I’ve been working on Blockchain at Swiss Re. In my work on the technology, my interest and focus has been on investigating ...

Smart contracts, blockchain and distributed ledger technologies – a legal overview for insurers

Article Synopsis : Investments in blockchain and smart contracts have been gathering pace in the financial services and insurance industries, and this report, “Smart contracts,...

AIA launches Hong Kong’s first blockchain-enabled bancassurance

AIA has launched a new blockchain-enabled bancassurance solution in partnership with its bank partners – a first for the bancassurance channel. This platform is based on the ...

Allianz’s captive insurance blockchain prototype

Allianz Global Corporate & Speciality (AGCS) division has developed a blockchain prototype for captive insurance policies as blockchain advisory service provider, digital...

InsurTech of the month: Factom

中英文版都有 For a wider overview of blockchain technology see Rick on InsurTech here Factom is a Shanghai/Texas based startup that provides 3rd party compliance and audit ...

China In-Depth – Blockchain’s breakthrough

中英文版都有 For a wider overview of blockchain technology see Rick on InsurTech here Few technologies stir such feverish debate among insurance executives as blockchain. In ...

China Spotlight: In conversation with James Gong of ChainB

中英文版都有 For a wider overview of blockchain technology see Rick on InsurTech here This month we speak to the CEO of ChainB, James Gong, China’s leading blockchain ...

China Spotlight: Blockchain in Regtech

中英文版都 For a wider overview of blockchain technology see Rick on InsurTech here Although the need to regulate the use of blockchain is an interesting paradox, distributed ...

Blockchain technology as a platform for digitization – EY

Article Synopsis : The insurance industry is built on trust between clients and insurers. If there is a breach in the transaction chain, from, say, the increased use of ...

Ruschlikon – Blockchain consortium aims to speed claims processing by 30%

Named after a town in Switzerland where a group of insurance practitioners first met to discuss the use of distributed ledger technology, Ruschlikon is an industry wide initi...

Blockchain will transform the insurance industry value chain – by BearingPoint

Article Synopsis : “Blockchain will transform the insurance industry value chain” by BearingPoint, asserts, as the title suggests, the revolutionary possibilities of ...

Smart insurance contracts – by Pinsent Masons and Applied Blockchain

Article Synopsis : “Smart insurance Contracts” from Pinsent Masons and Applied Blockchain is a discussion paper on the application of blockchain, distributed ledger ...

China Spotlight: 访问安盛创新实验室（亚洲）AXA Lab Interview

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Blockchain accelerates insurance transformation – KPMG Report

Article Synopsis : Four years ago nobody had heard of blockchain. Now major insurance carriers are investing, consortiums are forming, and venture capital is pouring in. Why? The...

Kevin – The insurance of the sharing economy

Kevin, Traity’s new chatbot, provides micro-insurance for P2P transactions online. Created in collaboration with Australia’s financial services conglomerate, Suncorp, Kevin s...

YoCoin Insurance – Blockchain based insurance platform

YoCoin is a bitcoin alternative that has just announced its intention to enter the insurance industry. Specifically, this infrastructure will deploy various features of block...

Is blockchain ready to replace the quill pen in the reinsurance markets?

The early use cases for blockchain mimic the way the industry works today. It is far too early to know if blockchain tech will, one day, enable a fundamental redesign of the ...

Rick Huckstep looks at the impact of blockchain technology in the wholesale and reinsurance markets

The Promise of Blockchain

Ready to take advantage of blockchain? Overwhelmed by constant disruption and facing what has been a prolonged low interest rate, low margin, and low underwriting return ...

The Future Of Blockchain In Health Insurance

Blockchain technology is set to transform health insurance. But what is blockchain? And what are the potential upsides and downsides of the innovation? Let’s take a look. ...

KPMG Interview wtih Vitalik Buterin – The Co-Founder of Ethereum discusses Blockchain in Insurance

Watch the video interview with Vitalik Buterin, Co-Founder of Ethereum. Hosted by Simon Phipps of KPMG China, Vitalik shares his views on the use of Blockchain in Insurance, from ...

Blockchain in the Insurance Sector – PwC Report

Article Synopsis : Blockchain offers more reliable and secure transactions faster and more cheaply whilst reducing risk and fraud. Quite the value proposition. In “Blockchain ...

ZhongAn’s Blockchain Initiative

With the recent announcement that the Chinese government is planning to utilise blockchain for elements of social security payments such as unemployment benefits and pensions...

Want to get an insurer’s attention? Blockchain – Willis Tower Watson

Article Synopsis : With increasing investments in blockchain-related startups focused on insurance we can expect to see new methods of measuring and pricing risk as well as ...

Blockchain in Insurance – Opportunity or Threat – McKinsey

Article Synopsis : Blockchain is a distributed ledger technology with huge innovation potential in all areas of financial services. Most blockchain use cases have been identified...

Getting Smart Contracts on Blockchain – IIF Paper

Article Synopsis : As blockchain principles enable Bitcoin to eliminate payments fraud they also enable Smart Contracts–self-executing contractual arrangements which nobody...

The Insurance Blockchain webinar recording – Poll suggests that majority find smart contracts that speed-up claims settlement / mat...

Our September 2016 webinar had over 650 registrations from around the globe. This was our seventh webinar as part of our Digital Insurance in Action series, sponsored by KPMG. ...

TDI Webinar Sep, 2016 – The Insurance Blockchain

The Insurance Blockchain webinar was held on 6 September 2016. The agenda includes: Blockchain Basics Blockchain technology for insurance Blockchain – an insurer’s perspective ...

TDI Webinar Sep 2016 – The Insurance Blockchain

The The Insurance Blockchain webinar was held on 6 September 2016. The agenda includes: Blockchain Basics Blockchain technology for insurance Blockchain – an insurer’s ...

Blockchain Primer

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Civic – Take control of your identity

Civic is a Blockchain-based identity management tool which aims to reduce identity theft and fraud online. Civic uses Blockchain technology to protect user identities throug...

DYNAMIS – Ethereum-Based DAO for Distributed P2P Insurance

Dynamis is an Ethereum-based “distributed application”, meaning that the authority to validate or rescind transactions between participants is distributed evenly across...