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“Specific and deep.” That is the type of service brokers need to be providing their clients in the cyber insurance spaces, says Shannan Fort, partner, financial lines, cyber at McGill and Partners. To be successful, brokers need to clearly understand their role and have a firm grasp on the remit of their responsibilities.
From flooding to social unrest, we offer our international experts’ predictions on the opportunities and challenges that the property insurance market may face in the coming year and beyond.
As per a report jointly released by TiE Delhi and Zinnov, the number of unicorns in India is expected to rise to 100 by 2025.
Many advisers insist that innovation leading to faster underwriting is the key to growing the individual protection market because online shopping generally has driven a customer demand for instant gratification and a personalised experience.
Juniper Research: Insurtech Platform Premiums to Exceed $556 Billion Globally in 2025, as AI Drives Market Transformation. Insurtech to Represent 8% of Global Insurance Premiums by 2025.
What are the main Insurtech disruption trends of 2021? In this article four of the UK’s leading insurtechs discuss the decline of traditional insurance and the rise of disruptive innovation in the sector
In Europe and across the world, there’s hope that life will start to return to normal this year. But although people may begin to work, socialise and travel as we used to, the way we purchase insurance – and indeed what we want from our insurers – will never be the same.
Insurance businesses are “jewels” of the Berkshire Hathaway business, said chairman and CEO Warren Buffett as the firm’s Reinsurance Group reported huge underwriting losses in 2020.
Looking ahead, insurance regulators should be more likely to allow more significant technical advancement and use in the insurance industry since, during the pandemic, many innovations were allowed and successfully used.
The car insurance field is constantly evolving. Insurance companies must not only to respond to ever-changing and increasingly sophisticated customer needs, but also embrace new technologies and ways of doing business.
Insurers in 2021 will be doubling down on streamlining, reinforcing their core businesses and updating technology, and M&A will help them get there as it did in 2020, according to a new Bain & Company report.
The IPOs of several insurance companies, such as Lemonade Inc (NYSE: LMND), in 2020 may lead to additional companies in the sector hitting the public market in 2021. Companies could explore a traditional IPO or a SPAC deal to bring their insurance companies public.
Interoperability and Compatibility With insurance agencies resorting to the use of digital tools, insurers must maintain a common data environment and set protocols to achieve interoperability and compatibility across all systems.
Global re/insurer SCOR has made a call for re/insurers to help convey the broad health benefits of getting the COVID-19 vaccination.
The Indian government has announced its vision to make the whole nation free from toll plazas by 2023. The toll money would now get debited via the GPS tracking system installed in your vehicle.
Healthcare organizations have to contend with the coronavirus pandemic and its lingering impacts, and shifting consumer demands for fast and convenient services. Healthcare players are being forced to move on their digital transformation efforts, and Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, and Microsoft are lending their tech-savviness to become partners for the job.
Last year, Getsafe launched in the UK – marking the start of the company’s expansion into new markets. Despite the challenges presented by the global pandemic, Getsafe pushed on with its agenda, including gaining $30 million in new funding and beginning partnerships with leading price comparison websites. It’s time to look back on 2020.
PTOLEMUS Consulting Group forecasts that European motor insurance premiums for employed and self-employed last-mile delivery will grow to €5.8 billion by 2030.
Managing general agencies (MGAs) in Canada are currently engaging in very little mergers and acquisitions activity among themselves because the market is still growing organically and is less mature than in other countries, the managing director of the national MGA trade association told Canadian Underwriter recently.
The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic will be felt by the insurance industry and its customers well into 2021 as consumers and businesses continue to face economic challenges, according to a new survey by consumer credit reporting firm TransUnion.
Quotech and Tenefit have announced a new partnership to bring new peril and loss-event data into insurance-market systems in real time, and to analyze that data effectively alongside the customers’ own data.
The desire to travel is strong. While lockdowns, travel restrictions and ongoing Covid-19 outbreaks have seriously hampered our wanderlust in 2020, vaccinations give us some optimism for travel in 2021.
With automated claims processing, the turnaround time for settlement will be measured in minutes rather than days or weeks.
It will come as no surprise to learn that the COVID-19 pandemic was by far the biggest concern for the respondents to the WEF’s annual survey.
Newly enfranchised consumers want to stay empowered, and chatbots have been around for a while, so could this be their moment?
The total number of global ransomware reports increased by 715% in the first half of 2020 year-over-year, according to Bitdefender’s Mid-Year Threat Landscape Report 2020.
CB Insights Analyst Niall Williams discusses InsurTech-related findings of two recent reports.
The start of a new year presents a good opportunity to reflect on changes over the past 12 months and predict what lies ahead in the next. As we can see a distant end to this difficult period, it’s time to reimagine the world’s future.
A new report by Travelers reaffirms the company’s belief that the auto insurance industry will play a “critical role” as lawmakers, regulators and society adjust to innovations in transportation, including the shift towards autonomous driving.
The future of insurance as-a-service, especially for claims, requires an action-based model that leverages on-demand support.
Increasingly digital customers are demanding more from insurers. They want help preventing injury and loss. And insurers who re-invent their offerings with AI capabilities will be poised to deliver.
Experts looking at the InsurTech sector for 2021 see both more of the same and new things ahead. Some predict more IPOs, M&A and partnerships. Others expect new InsurTech ideas to fully take root, such as the embedding of insurance into every financial and retail transaction.
Interest remains high in technologies like artificial intelligence and big data.
With assets under management of around €10 trillion, insurers in Europe have plenty of financial clout to drive changes that will promote sustainability earn them more trust among customers.
It’s an understatement to say that 2020 has brought new risks to the forefront for insureds, while introducing new challenges for the re/insurance industry. However, over the past tumultuous 12 months, the reinsurance market has been able to find opportunities to develop business and stay on course.
Technology continues to be a primary growth driver in insurance dealmaking worldwide. Notable deals completed in 2020 include investments into US-based startup Openly, Belgium’s Keypoint, and yallacompare in the United Arab Emirates.
After a year of economic turmoil, the US emerged from 2020 with its insurtech crown intact. American companies accounted for 39 places in FinTech Global’s InsurTech 100 (2020) – almost double that of its closest competitor. Of the insurtech megarounds completed by the third quarter, 75% took place in the US, with insurtechs flourishing in startup strongholds like Silicon Valley and New York, and across the Midwest and South.
AXIS Capital Holdings Ltd. said it won’t insure oil and gas projects in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, becoming the first North American underwriter to make the commitment after pressure from native Alaskans and environmentalists.
Throughout the last year, the COVID-19 pandemic challenged insurers to better understand customer needs and preferences while also accelerating digitization efforts.
Today when we speak about digital transformation within insurance, it can sound like it is something relatively new. In actuality, technology has been playing a pivotal role in the insurance industry for decades.
As we look back on 2020 – and aren’t we all glad to be doing that? – it’s safe to say that the rate of change in the insurance industry accelerated at least tenfold.
The authors predict carriers’ struggles to innovate, and keep up with other carriers, will change the trajectory of dealmaking.
Both startups and established players in the reinsurance industry are likely to have a strong focus on expense efficiency in 2021, according to Dmitry Mnushkin, President of Bermuda-based insurance and reinsurance software specialists, Treefrog Consulting.
The head of New York Life Ventures talks about the impact of the pandemic on the world of InsurTech investment.
Three out of four consumers (76%) would welcome assistance from their insurer in dealing with cybersecurity threats as the pandemic drives more consumers online, according to a new report from Accenture.
We cannot wait for 2020 to be over. Despite what we all feared in March, insurtech has continued to flourish, with lots of capital supporting the sector in public and private markets, closer integration between incumbents and startups, and promising solutions for long-time needs in SME and cyber.
From dematerialization to personalization. From IoT to Machine Learning. From Virtual Reality to gamification…and more. Here are the top 10 digital trends for insurance.
Lloyd’s of London is scaling back its exposure to coal and oil sands, the commercial insurance market said in its first sustainability report on Wednesday, in a reversal of its traditional hands-off approach to climate change strategy.
With the Covid-19 pandemic accelerating the development of technology, insurance technology (insurtech) is gaining traction. This year, the market has seen the successful initial public offerings of numerous disruptive insurtech players or startups in the US like Lemonade, with Hippo expected to follow next year, and this trend is expected to be repeated in Southeast Asia.
German insurance technology startup Wefox expects to achieve revenue of 300 million euros ($365 million) and be profitable at the operating level next year, its founder and CEO, Julian Teicke, said in an interview.
Cyber insurance has been identified as a key growth area for London, according to a study conducted by the City of London Corporation and Accenture.
In an interview with Karen Webster, Hippo CEO Assaf Wand made the case that online platforms can solve the pain points of getting claims paid, but also set up a steady oversight of home maintenance that keeps trouble spots to a minimum.
Analysts at RBC Capital Markets predict that Lloyd’s insurers are likely to retain more business on their own balance sheets as pricing in the market continues to improve.
The rise of the sharing economy has dramatically reshaped marketing thought and practice. The projected revenue from sharing accommodations and transportation alone will surpass $335 billion in 2025. The recent initial public offerings of Uber and Lyft exemplify this remarkable growth.
Insurers pummeled by the pandemic are looking to deals as they race to see who’ll emerge strongest when the outbreak subsides.
India’s smartphone insurance market is expected to grow at a CAGR of 29% to touch $500 million (about Rs 3,678 crore) by 2025, according to a report by consulting firm RedSeer.
Insurtech company Cuvva is urging the insurance industry to make their coverage options more flexible for UK students travelling back home for Christmas.
Among the myriad changes triggered by the Covid-19 pandemic is the sharp spike in a form of auto insurance that can greatly reduce premiums, especially for the millions of drivers who no longer commute since they’re now working from home.
Braxtone Group unveils new motor claims recovery platform after graduating from regulatory sandbox of Bahrain Central Bank.
It’s not just tech behemoths who are invading the turf of insurers these days and giving the industry a run for its money.
With home-working widespread because of COVID-19, security around access and authentication points is critical.
If the last nine months have made anything clear, it is that the pandemic has fundamentally changed both buying and driving habits for UK motorists. The latest Tempcover research has revealed that online-only used car sales had increased fifteen-fold during the pandemic among 2,000 survey respondents.
Insurance companies should pay close attention to insurtechs—not because they’re coming to attack, but because they’re coming to collaborate. For established insurers, insurtechs can be digital enablers that drive the adoption of digital technologies along the value chain.
Demand for predictive analytics is on the rise as life insurers look for new ways to boost business performance and customer relations in a tight market, according to a new study from Willis Towers Watson
External attacks on companies result in the most expensive cyber insurance losses, but it is employee mistakes and technical problems that are the most frequent generator of claims by number, according to a report from Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty (AGCS)
Established insurers will face a squeeze on profits and market share as new financial technology companies muscle in on the industry, a senior European Union official said on Wednesday
Connected vehicles, especially fully autonomous vehicles, are going to profoundly change the nature of car insurance – particularly the ways in which insurers assess risk and set premiums
Reputation is one of the most valuable intangible assets to global businesses, according to a report by Lloyd’s and KPMG
Next year could be one of Beazley PLC’s strongest for more than a decade, the Lloyd’s of London insurer’s chief executive said on Tuesday, with the industry likely having already absorbed the bulk of its losses from the coronavirus pandemic
The pair are among the investors plowing a total of $160 million into Metromile, which offers pay-per-mile car insurance and tailored pricing to drivers. The startup relies on a device that subscribers install in their vehicles, which tracks their mileage and reports other data with their permission
Over time, insurance has evolved from a product that is sold to a product that is bought, according to Christian Bieck, global leader of the insurance practice for the IBM Institute for Business Value, a research organization that provides thought leadership based on primary data and real-life case studies
Allstate Corp. hired solely banks owned by minorities, women or veterans for its bond sale, in the biggest corporate deal yet managed only by diverse firms
Global reinsurance giant Swiss Re has said that it expects its property and casualty reinsurance (P&C Re) normalised combined ratio to improve to 96% or less in 2021, as the firm pursues targeted growth in a hardening marketplace
Digital transformations that would have taken three to five years are now happening in under six months
AmWINS Group has released a report that explores the state of the property market and how it is becoming more dire as hardening continues, despite the COVID-19 pandemic
Manulife Financial Corp. says more than $600 million in digital investments over the last two years are paying off as the company grappled with the COVID-19 pandemic.
As the tech giants and startups enter the insurance market, are we witnessing the beginning of the decline of the traditional insurance giants?
Without a daily commute for the foreseeable future, consumer interest in pay-per-mile coverage is on the rise.
A new sigma study by Swiss Re is forecasting global insurance premium growth of 3.4% in real terms in 2021, following a contraction of 1.4% this year due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Using data to gain a deeper understanding of policyholder behavior can be one of the most effective means of building trust with insureds.
Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc reported lower quarterly operating results on Saturday and said the coronavirus pandemic may cause further damage, even as gains in stocks such as Apple Inc fueled a more than $30 billion overall profit.
For years, the established insurance industry has viewed insurtech start-ups as disruptors. And rightly so—they are nimble, responsive to customer needs and built on modern technology.
As businesses have had to adjust how they transact with patrons in an effort to curb the spread of the novel virus, on-demand delivery drivers
Massive healthcare companies like UnitedHealth Group and Anthem are soaring amid an undecided election — and it’s because an overhaul of health insurance is looking
Insurtech funding rose 52% from the second to third quarter, according to CB Insights’ State of Fintech Q3 2020 report. Funding reached $2.56 billion in
London has seen a sharp rise in premium volumes coming from the US this summer, a recent survey from the London & International Insurance Brokers’
Think of giants like Ping An; innovations such as TenCent’s Waterdrop; and ecosystem plays such as Rakuten. We often get asked where you should go
In 2012, Nigeria launched a National Financial Inclusion Strategy (“NFIS”) in which it aimed at reducing the percentage of adult Nigerians that are excluded from
Deals are still getting done during the pandemic. But they’re coming with increased frequency of claims notifications. The mergers & acquisitions market is challenging for
On the back of several years of unsatisfactory returns and the added challenges of COVID-19, Willis Re’s James Vickers has said that the reinsurance market
Cytora employees can choose to work from any location they desire, no longer restricted by the unnecessary demands of a physical office. Remote-first now sits
The frequency and severity of cyber events is on the rise and as the peril grows in relevance, particularly under COVID-19 conditions, demand for protection
Insurtechs are important for the development of the industry — but as tools. Incumbents must still get the real transformation done. Given the nature of
With the launch of Amazon’s Halo, a health-focussed wearable, the first-party-data-fuelled company is setting up to disrupt healthcare – but the early steps it is
Hardening insurance markets are bucking the global recession trend, according to a new report from the Swiss Re Institute. “Even before the COVID-19 crisis, low
Iprosurv, the UK’s leading aerial survey, inspection and mapping provider, has entered into a partnership with US-based agricultural surveying specialists, Sentera, in a move that
In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, a new report from insurance and reinsurance marketplace Lloyd’s of London has called on insurers to build simpler
Global insurance and reinsurance brokerage, Aon, predicts that the risk settlement market could still reach £50 billion by the end of 2020. The 2020 result
KPMG has published a report in collaboration with Lloyd’s that highlights the new threats to intellectual property (IP) portfolios posed by a changing risk landscape
Despite the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on dealmaking, the global M&A market has recorded its first positive performance in three years for completed deals,
Five years after London-based hedge fund Toscafund ditched the shares it held in insurance companies, the $3.5 billion firm and its peers are flocking back,
Tech giants are ramping up their investments in digital health initiatives, signaling some significant moves to target the health insurance space. Google, Facebook, Apple and
What are the Covid-related changes in consumer behavior that will stick in the healthcare revenue cycle following the pandemic? Here are three trends that could
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