Welcome to The Digital Insurer Newswire, a daily updated selection of curated InsurTech and digital insurance news from around the web.
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Today’s top selected digital insurance content
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Now individuals can enable a Principal skill to hear quick retirement planning and financial tips spoken to them. And if those snippets aren’t enough, listeners will be directed to principal.com/alexa to dive deeper on the topic with resources from their financial wellness platform.
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| Zurich North America has bought Sea Pine Technologies, which makes digital applications for marketing of vehicle protection products. The goal is to position Zurich as a leader in automotive finance and insurance capabilities and provide strong offers for auto dealers to offer
car owners.
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Kryon, a NYC-basedrobotic process automation (RPA) company enabling enterprises to achieve continuous process optimization and change the way employees work, completed a $40m Series C financing round.
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Coversure Insurance Services Group has rebranded to the Jensten Group. Jensten Group comprises of online wholesaler Policyfast, specialist insurance underwriters City Underwriters and franchise operation Coversure.
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Utilant, a Buffalo, N.Y.-based provider loss control inspection and survey management software for underwriting and risk management for property/casualty insurers, announced that Aquiline Technology Growth (ATG, New York) has made a significant Series A investment in the company.
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This month's edition of InsurTech Insights aims to make sense of the data issues faced by the insurance industry and its regulators. Insurers are already using tech-based non-traditional sources of data, such as telematics and wearables to improve their risk ratings on customers. So why not also tap
into the explosion of personalised data on social media?
| | 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 insurancseveral notable regulatory actions and a more cautious VC approach have
signaled that the honeymoon is over.
| | Customers are increasingly demanding products they understand that fit their own specific needs. In order to achieve this, insurers are launching many more products and collaborating with competitors in order to satisfy these demands. This is developing a range of ecosystems.
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We kick off 2019 with our annual InsurTech predictions. This year we have tried to take it to a new level with a more formal and public collaboration with KPMG to identify the top 10 trends in InsurTech. The executive summary is available now. The report is designed to engage, provide a point of view
and hopefully spark reactions and ideas as you think through your strategies in the year ahead.
| | 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.
| | Martha Notaras, a partner at venture capital firm XL Innovate, has drawn up her top 10 innovations she expects to pass in insurtech in the coming year. Insurtech has seen huge levels of investment, but there are two distinct markets developing. Fintechs will seek to widen their horizons and revenue
opportunities through new products.
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