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Today’s top selected digital insurance content
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The Belgium-based startup operates in the space of UBI. Established in 2017 and led by Gerrit Nollet, Mobly was launched to address the declining number of kilometers driven per car thanks to last mile transportation solutions such as e-bikes and scooters.
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| bsurance, a Vienna, Austria-based insurtech startup, raised €4m in Series A financing. Backers included Uniqa Ventures, the corporate venture capital arm of Austria’s leading insurance group, and new investors.
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American insurance major MetLife is reportedly planning to acquire additional stake in its Indian joint venture PNB MetLife India Insurance Company from its Indian partners.
LIFE INSURANCE INTERNATIONAL
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Avinew, a Westlake Village, Calif.-based InsurTech company specializing in insuring autonomous and semi-autonomous vehicles, has announced $5M in seed funding. The investment was led by Crosscut Ventures (Santa Monica, Calif.), with additional participation from American Family Ventures.
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Des Moines, Iowa-based The Global Insurance Accelerator announced a recent investment by Global Atlantic Financial Group Ltd. GIA is a business accelerator focused solely on innovation and technology for the insurance industry.
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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.
| | This month we take a look back at the major developments of 2018 and select the most progressive InsurTechs that have emerged from China. Although the past year was characterized by continued optimism with regard to digital insurance.
| | To excel in the digital-centric age, insurers must deliver better customer experiences that are simple, efficient, and obstacle-free, says this report from the enterprise software provider, SAP. Insurers must understand how to streamline customer-facing processes.
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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.
| | 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. Although relatively unknown in the
western world, Tencent is China’s most influential internet company.
| | This report from Oxbow Partners focuses on the Lloyd’s and London markets, which it considers initially viewed insurtech with interest, but little understanding of the potential for change. They may believe their corporate and speciality markets are isolated from the surge of insurtech because they are
specialist, but this would fly in the face of all the evidence.
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