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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Meet Bravely, the New-York-based startup on a mission to transform the workplace into a better and healthier place for everyone. Bravely is a new kind of employee benefit that connects professional coaches with employees to help tackle their issues.
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| Lockton, a US-based insurance brokerage firm, has established its new global reinsurance business, as part of its business expansion strategy.
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An insurtech with offices in Ontario is looking for commercial and personal lines carriers who want to sell insurance. Slice Lab is talking to several Canadian insurers who have an interest in launching new products.
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Ping An Medical and Healthcare Management (Ping An HealthKonnect), a Shanghai-based platform affiliated to the Ping An Group, said it aims to help the authorities better fight insurance scams using its advanced big data and AI technologies.
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Insurers are already using big data tools like Hadoop and NoSQL in their enterprises, but further investment faces challenges. With many new data sources available, like Internet of Things devices and advanced weather and geospatial data, data leaders at insurance companies want to invest further.
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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.
| | Predictions for the key trends in the coming year are thought on the ground at the moment. This one from Analytics India Magazine & AnalytixLabs identifies 10 key trends as to how AI and data will transform the Indian market over the coming year.
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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.
| | Travelers public policy division The Travelers Institute has released a white paper called Insuring Autonomy: How auto insurance can adapt to changing risks, that outlines the framework for autonomous vehicle insurance covering both personal and commercial. The context is on resolving claims and providing
fair compensation to accident victims.
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