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Today’s top selected digital insurance content
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2018 was one of the biggest years for insurtech investment yet. These are some of the largest deals of the year, according to Crunchbase data.
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| Wapic Insurance, headquartered in Lagos, Nigeria, has unveiled its new travel insurance product for the local market that includes cover for medical repatriation.
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La Positiva Vida, part of La Positiva Seguros – one of the largest Insurance providers in Peru – announced the Go Live of the INSIS insurance Platform.
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Bowtie Life Insurance, a Hong Kong-based digital insurer backed by Sun Life’s local unit, has obtained the first virtual insurance licence from the Hong Kong Insurance Authority.
LIFE INSURANCE INTERNATIONAL
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China Reinsurance announced the completion of its takeover of Chaucer Holdings from The Hanover Insurance Group. The latest step saw the 100% equity acquisition of Hanover Insurance International Holdings, go through.
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InsurTech Insight looks at the role of the Digital Actuary, with a provocative intro from Hugh Terry, analysis from KPMG on the developing role, and insight from Rick Huckstep, who interviews three digital insurance leaders seeking new actuarial opportunity.
| | In the final edition of this three-part series on China's tech giants we consider the digital insurance activities currently underway at Tencent with an in-depth article and slide deck alongside further video analysis from Swiss Re's Yannick Even and the TDI team.
| | 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% ..
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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 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. It would appear that almost two decades since deregulation, the Indian insurance market is stagnating, despite the growth in the population
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