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Insurance and reinsurance technology related news, focused on the wave of interest in InsurTech start-ups, investing in insurance technology initiatives, as well as reinsurance tech start-ups or ReinsurTech.
Beazley to leverage Guidewire’s Cyence analytics solution
11th September 2019
Specialist insurer Beazley has selected Guidewire Software’s Cyence product to help improve underwriting, capital and pricing efficiencies. Cyence offers a data listening and risk analytics solution that combines curation of external data with machine learning and risk modelling. Beazley will implement Cyence data models to augment its existing data modelling applications for ... Read the full article
Munich Re announces new risk analysis services for wildfire & hurricane
8th September 2019
Munich Re has announced two new risk analysis and claims settlement services for wildfire and hurricanes, which aim to accelerate indemnification for policyholders. The reinsurer’s Wildfire Risk Score will support clients in evaluating wildfire risks in North America and in estimating damages following an event. The solution combines loss data from past ... Read the full article
Aon to introduce auction capability for 1/1 renewals
8th September 2019
Global re/insurance brokerage Aon is set to implement an auction capability for the January 1 renewals, as the company looks to leverage new technology in order to speed up the process of pricing negotiations and contract certainty. Aon says the technology, offered as part of its suite of services, enables pricing ... Read the full article
Prudential set to acquire insurtech Assurance IQ
8th September 2019
US insurance and investment firm Prudential Financial has agreed to acquire Assurance IQ, an insurtech firm that matches buyers with customised insurance solutions. The transaction includes a total upfront consideration of $2.35 billion, plus an additional earnout of up to $1.15 billion in cash and equity, contingent upon Assurance achieving certain ... Read the full article
AIG to back new media finance vehicle by fintech firm FastPay
6th September 2019
Global insurer American International Group (AIG) is to provide funding and trade insurance for a new receivables securitisation program launched by financial technology firm FastPay. The program will offer significant capital to the media and technology sector and allow FastPay to open the door for larger, global media and tech clients ... Read the full article
Tremor reaches $1bn of reinsurance quotes, adds new investors
4th September 2019
Tremor Technologies, the programmatic risk transfer platform, has passed $1 billion of total reinsurance quotes and lines bound of nearly $500 million, and has announced $10 million in financing from new investors. The company has now completed six reinsurance placements, with quotes from more than 70 reinsurers, ILS funds, and Lloyd’s ... Read the full article
SCOR to invest €250m in tech-focused ‘Quantum Leap’ strategy
4th September 2019
Global reinsurer SCOR has launched its new 'Quantum Leap' strategy, a two-and-a-half year plan which emphasises the integration of technology, as the company looks to create the "reinsurance company of tomorrow.” This new strategy is SCOR’s seventh since 2002, and follows the ‘Vision in Action’ plan implemented in 2016. Over the period ... Read the full article
China’s Ping An to develop nationwide ‘innovation platform’, reports
30th August 2019
Ping An Insurance, China’s largest insurer by market value, has been selected by the country’s Ministry of Science and Technology to build a nationwide innovation platform to help bolster the development of Artificial Intelligence, according to reports from China Daily. The National Open Innovation Platform for Next Generation Artificial Intelligence will ... Read the full article
China’s digitisation opening up previously uninsurable risks: Swiss Re
30th August 2019
The digital transformation currently taking place across China is expanding the boundaries of re/insurance and facilitating the development of solutions for previously uninsurable risks, according to a new report from Swiss Re. Swiss Re describes digitisation as the main engine of China’s economy and expects to see exponential sector growth over ... Read the full article
Munich Re-backed insurtech INSHUR raises further $1.5m
29th August 2019
INSHUR, a 100% digital provider of commercial auto insurance, has raised a further $1.5 million to its Series A funding round from Viola FinTech, part of the Israel-based technology investment group Viola. Backed by global reinsurer Munich Re, INSHUR is a mobile-first provider of commercial auto insurance for private hire ... Read the full article
Insurtech Kin raises $47m to fund carrier in Florida
28th August 2019
Kin Insurance, an insurtech startup focused on matching US homeowners to insurance policies, has raised $47 million in additional funding. Kin plans on using the capital to launch Kin Interinsurance Network, a Florida insurance carrier that is expected to expand and serve other states in the near future. Using a customers’ home ... Read the full article
Manulife partners with insurtech Blink on parametric flight insurance
27th August 2019
Canadian multinational insurer Manulife has signed an agreement that will see a suite of parametric travel disruption insurance solutions, provided by travel insurtech Blink, to its customers. Blink's solutions offer a real-time service designed to ease the stress of a flight delay or cancellation by providing instant payment when a flight ... Read the full article
Insurtech funding rises nearly 280% in Q2: CB Insights
23rd August 2019
A handful of very large insurtech funding deals in the second-quarter of 2019 helped to take the total amount of fundraising for the quarter to almost $1.4 billion, which is almost 280% up on the prior year. Data from CB Insights shows that insurtech funding was down slightly on Q1 of ... Read the full article
China Pacific Insurance invests in B3i
22nd August 2019
The China Pacific Insurance Group (CPIC) has joined firms such as AXA, Munich Re, SCOR and Swiss Re in becoming a shareholder of the Blockchain Insurance Industry Initiative (B3i). B3i believes this investment from CPIC extends the breadth of the shareholder community and strengthens its representation across the global insurance market. GU ... Read the full article
Axinan first Southeast Asian insurtech to secure Labuan license
21st August 2019
Singapore-based insurtech Axinan has become the first Southeast Asian company of its kind to secure a combined general and reinsurance license from Labuan FSA, the financial regulator for Labuan International Business and Financial Centre. The license, obtained via its subsidiary Axinan Labuan Limited, will allow the firm to underwrite general and ... Read the full article
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