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| Chubb Life Insurance Indonesia has today launched an online platform called Chubb Life Customer Corner as part of its ongoing commitment to putting customers first and providing them with the best customer experience, anywhere and anytime.
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Humania Assurance has introduced a new portfolio of online health insurance products tailored for Canadians aged 55 to 75 years old. This portfolio of products will allow them to reduce their financial stress and focus on taking care of their recovery.”- VP Sales and Marketing, Kim Oliphant.
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| It’s been another big year for Insurtech, with venture funding surpassing 2017 levels, the first unicorns outside of health insurance, and incumbent carriers doubling down on new technologies and solutions. Here are 10 predictions for the coming year.
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Trustology, a London, UK-based provider of a platform for securing digital assets, raised $8m in seed funding. The round was led by Two Sigma Ventures, with participation from ConsenSys, the global blockchain company founded by Ethereum Co-founder Joseph Lubin.
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| Silicon Valley, US-based technology company AgileHealthInsurance.com has announced that it is expanding its product portfolio by offering short-term health insurance plans with maximum coverage durations of up to three years.
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This month we are featuring the ‘Connected Enterprise’, a topic that’s really all about customer focus in the extreme. In Tom Robert’s KPMG article, he outlines the steps insurers can take to become Connected Enterprises, while Rick homes in on Trov, Lemonade, and ZhongAn, as
tangible examples of Connected Insurance Enterprises.There are examples of insurers that have already become Connected Enterprises.
| | This month we consider the digital insurance activites currenlty underway at Baidu. As China’s biggest search engine, Baidu has amassed more than 500 million active users across search, maps, O2O services, and autonomous driving.Although Baidu’s involvement in digital insurance has been more selective than
Alibaba or Tencent, its focus on Autonomous Driving could see it disrupt a market that represents 70% of non-life premium.
| | This is the second of two insurance focused papers concentrates on the innovation that is already taking place in India.It acknowledges the growing population increases – 1.35 billion by 2020 –the opportunity, but insurance penetration is still only around 4%, though expected to grow to US$280 billion by the end of 2020...
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This month’s InsurTech Insights looks at cyber security and its implications for the insurance industry. With the pace of change in our world, individuals and companies are increasingly demanding to be more connected, is the insurance industry able and prepared to meet the future demand?
| | This month we have the first in our three-part series on China’s BAT – the tech giants Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent, and consider the digital insurance activities currently underway at Alibaba. As China’s biggest eCommerce destination, Alibaba has amassed more than 500 million active users across ecommerce,
mobile payments and O2O services.
| | This is the first of two pieces of research we’re featuring this month on the state of the insurance industry in India.They each might be described as examples of glass half full/empty and this one for the Pahle India Foundation focuses on the latter.
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