Latest InsurTech Headlines
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Aon Partners with Insurtech Firm Skytek to Track Marine Risk Accumulations
Mar 5 2019 // Aon plc is partnering with software company Skytek to provide real-time monitoring of insurers’ marine risks, identifying accumulations for enhanced underwriting and reinsurance programs. In an era of mega-ports and...
Arch Promotes Executives to Innovation, Mortgage Insurance Leadership Roles
Mar 4 2019 // Arch Capital Group Ltd. said it has made some strategic leadership changes affecting innovation and investment, and mortgage insurance. The Bermuda-based specialty insurer and reinsurer named Andrew Rippert as chief...
UK Online Grocer Ocado Learns Lessons About Robotic Warehouses After Massive Fire
Mar 4 2019 // The Andover fire brigade was alerted at 2.34 a.m. About 2 miles across town, a fire had broken out in the early hours of Feb. 5 at a state-of-the-art Ocado Group Plc warehouse. Within minutes, firefighters were tackling a...
Mayor Establishes D.C. Financial Services Regulatory Sandbox, Innovation Council
Mar 4 2019 // District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser recently established the District of Columbia Financial Services Regulatory Sandbox and Innovation Council. The council is charged with studying and reporting on the feasibility of...
2018 Was Big Year for Robot Employment
Feb 28 2019 // U.S. companies installed more robots last year than ever before, as cheaper and more flexible machines put them within reach of businesses of all sizes and in more corners of the economy beyond their traditional foothold...
U.K. Cyber-Security Startup Tessian Raises $40M to Support U.S. Expansion
Feb 28 2019 // Sequoia Capital has backed a London-based cyber-security startup founded by a trio of former banking analysts, who were surprised how often documents such as deal-term sheets were accidentally emailed to the wrong...
UK Financial Markets at Risk of Disruption with Hard Brexit: Regulator
Feb 28 2019 // Financial markets are still at risk of disruption if there is a no-deal Brexit, Britain’s Financial Conduct Authority said on Wednesday. FCA Chief Executive Andrew Bailey told a House of Lords committee that despite...
What Young Insurance Agents Earn, Think and Say
Feb 27 2019 // Young agents want change. They want more diversity in the agency sales ranks. They want better paths to grow in their careers. They want other agents to adhere to professional standards and ethics. They want faster and...
Investments in Insurtechs Rose in Q4 2018; Cyber Becomes a Focus
Feb 26 2019 // Sixty-three insurtech deals with a total value of $1.59 billion were announced worldwide in the fourth quarter of 2018. The number of deals was up 24 percent while the value jumped 155 percent over Q4 2017. The total,...
Agents, Brokers and the Future of Insurance Distribution
Feb 26 2019 // A funny thing is happening on the way to the future. As consumers’ and carriers’ behaviors, attitudes and expectations have been changing, independent agents are evolving to better serve both customers and...
Ping An Insurance Readies $8 Billion IPO of Fintech OneConnect
Feb 25 2019 // Ping An Insurance (Group) Co., China’s largest insurer by market value, is gearing up for an initial public offering of its OneConnect unit that could value the financial management portal at about $8 billion,...
How to Get Autonomous Cars to Pull Over for Police
Feb 25 2019 // It was still dark on a Friday morning in November when a California Highway Patrol officer started following a Tesla Model S on Route 101 between the San Francisco International Airport and Palo Alto. The gray sedan was...
Insurtechs Neptune, Hippo Unite Home, Flood Insurance Online for Speedy Purchasing
Feb 21 2019 // Flood insurance company Neptune Flood has partnered with online Hippo Insurance to provide consumers with quick access to flood insurance as part of purchasing of home insurance. Hippo promises quick processing and...
Insurtech Trov Now Selling in 7 Additional States and D.C.
Feb 21 2019 // Insurtech Trōv is now offering its on-demand online, single-item insurance products in seven additional states and the District of Columbia. Trōv has now expanded into Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Hawaii, Iowa, Michigan,...
Crypto Startup BitGo Offers Insurance Against Quadriga Cold-Wallet Debacle
Feb 20 2019 // While users of the troubled Quadriga CX cryptocurrency exchange remain unable to retrieve millions in funds, a startup backed by mainstream companies such as Goldman Sachs says they’re able to offer some...
Allianz Targets Tech, Insurance Investments with $1.1B Venture Capital Fund
Feb 20 2019 // European insurer Allianz SE is increasing the size of its tech investment fund to 1 billion euros ($1.1 billion), making it one of the largest corporate-backed venture funds in Europe. Allianz X was launched in 2016 with a...
How Pricing Insurance for Cars of Future Could Bring Insurers, Carmakers Together
Feb 19 2019 // Dan Peate, a venture capitalist and entrepreneur in Southern California, was thinking of buying a Tesla Model X a few years ago—until he called his insurance company and found out how much his premiums would...
Insurtech-Driven MGA, Agile, Appointed as StarStone Partner in Australasia
Feb 15 2019 // Agile Underwriting Services Pty Ltd., the insurtech-driven managing general agency (MGA) and Lloyd’s coverholder, announced it has been appointed as a representative agent for global specialty insurer, StarStone, in...
Look Who Is Betting on the Agency System
Feb 15 2019 // According to some pundits, buyers should all be online and the agency system should be dead by now. However, it appears not everyone got that memo. Here are some recent examples of companies, techies and investors betting...
Mayor Establishes D.C. Financial Services Regulatory Sandbox, Innovation Council
Feb 14 2019 // District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser recently established the District of Columbia Financial Services Regulatory Sandbox and Innovation Council. The council is charged with studying and reporting on the feasibility of...
