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| China's largest insurance group by market capitalisation Ping An Insurance is considering buying UK-headquartered Prudential's Asia business, people familiar with the matter said... |
| Think: a Tel-Aviv-based insurance startup, established in 2017 and led by
Simon Schwall, to provide smallholder farmers with tools to protect their crop. |
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| At first glance, an insurance company's investment in a staffing company might seem, well, a little off-base. But according to principals at American.. |
| Klara, a NYC-based digital health startup, raised $11.5m in Series A round led by FirstMark Capital with participation from Project A, Lerer Hippeau, etc... |
| TAL Dai-ichi Life Australia (TAL)
has signed a non-binding heads of agreement to acquire Suncorp’s Australian life insurance arm for about A$725m ($537.8m).. Life Insurance International |
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This month’s InsurTech Insights explores how technology infrastructure is evolving for global insurers.There is no doubt that technology is reducing the barriers to global insurance business models – and just as manufacturing has already globalised, there is strong rationale to see the globalisation of many insurance business lines over the next
decade. | | This month we examine an often overlooked segment of digital insurance; marine. Despite exhibiting relatively little startup activity, the auditable risk profiles and location based nature of marine insurance lends itself to emerging technologies such as blockchain and
AI. | | Traditional insurers face a growing array of digital competitors armed with new tools capable of delivering
more agile, customer‑focused solutions. This report from KPMG outlines how incumbents can get on a path to co-opting these tools to build winning digital strategies themselves.. |
For this month’s InsurTech Insights, we take a look at the subject of wealth management from an insurance perspective.In the feature article from KPMG, Jill Hitchen
from KPMG’s UK Insurance and Investment Management practice sets out a three-step approach for digitisation. By contrast, Rick Huckstep’s article looks at the subject of retirement savings in the US. | | This month we examine
the efforts being made in China to tackle the increasing problem of chronic diseases such as diabetes, obesity and respiratory conditions.China has nearly universal public health insurance yet there is widespread concern about the cost of medical procedures, which even those covered must pay significantly towards. | | This comprehensive quarterly report from Willis Towers Watson and CB Insights summarizes the InsurTech investment environment for the first quarter of 2018. This issue also provides insightful reviews and profiles on InsurTech capital
providers—including traditional VCs, incumbent insurance funds, and hybrid solutions. |
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