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Today’s top selected digital insurance content
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| Pacific Life Re is pleased to announce the appointment of Joe Durkan
to lead their increased focus on Alternative
Distribution. |
| China's second-biggest e-commerce company, JD.com, will invest CNY537 million (US$85 million) in Allianz China General Insurance, taking a 33% stake and becoming its second largest shareholder, according to an announcement published by the Insurance Association of China. |
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| A couple of weeks ago, there were rumors of Walmart purchasing U.S. Health Insurer Humana. I’ve written about the U.S. healthcare market a few times and thought this news was rather interesting. |
| MetLife’s Chief Digital Officer Greg Baxter MIT Media Lab’s place in the context of a the insurer’s ‘comprehensive and disciplined’ approach to innovation. |
| Coverfox, one of a handful of companies aiming to digitize insurance in India, has landed fresh funding via a $22 million Series C round that will be used to push into more rural parts of the country. |
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Our latest issue of InsurTech Insights focuses on simplifying the insurance customer experience as a way to improve engagement and to help meet consumer expectations. | | This month we look at what digital insurance can do for China’s aging population. From preventative healthcare to smart home assistants, advances in sensors are lifting the burden of senior care from the
government and into the hands of senior’s themselves. | | As risk aggregators disrupt the small-to- medium-sized enterprises (SME) insurance market, insurers face tough choices. Do they take on the aggregators at their own game with an efficient, platform-based offering? This report, from KPMG’s
Global Strategy Group, offers guidance to commercial insurance players seeking to turn disruption into competitive advantage. |
The latest edition of InsurTech Insights, in partnership with KPMG, explores the impact on motor vehicle insurance due to the rise of cars that drive themselves. We have three excellent featured articles on Insurance in the age of autonomy, one by Chris Nyce & Joseph Schneider from KPMG and the other two by Rick Huckstep
& Andrew Dart from The Digital Insurer. | | This month’s China in Focus investigates the InsurTech and AgriTech efforts set to transform rural China.Swiss Re, in thought leadership, looks more closely at available livestock insurance in a country
where epidemic disease outbreaks kill and harm animals, while financially devastating ill-prepared farmers.In interview we speak with Tony Compton who is currently advising several InsurTechs in Shanghai and London. | | Insurers historically leading and optimising for risk mitigation and execution are now required to develop new products at faster rates, meet the larger financial industry’s pace in customer service, and take advantage of data analytics in
a manner far beyond what’s typical of underwriters. |
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