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Eigen Technologies Appoints First COO and CISO

Eigen Technologies (Eigen), the global intelligent document processing (IDP) provider, today announces the appointment of David Brooks and Simon Hogg as its first Chief Operating Officer (COO) and first Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) respectively.

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InnSure Awarded US$6.5 Million to Fund Climate Risk Innovation

InnSure, a mission-driven nonprofit that aims to combat climate change by harnessing the power of the insurance industry, has been awarded $6.5 million by the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) to fund insurance innovators who are developing products and solutions to address climate risk challenges.

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EY and IBM Expand Quantum Computing Alliance

EY and IBM has announced that EY Global Services Limited will be joining the IBM Quantum Network, in a bid to further enable EY teams to explore solutions with IBM that could help resolve some of today’s most complex business challenges.

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5 technologies impacting insurance

Throughout 2022, the insurtech sector experienced a fundraising paradigm shift from “growth at all costs” to a greater operational focus on sustainability, responsible growth, and even more importantly, toward a clear path to profitability.

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DigitalOwl and RGA Form Collaborative Underwriting Technology Partnership

Today, DigitalOwl, an insurance technology company that utilizes artificial intelligence to interpret and transform medical records into a comprehensive and interactive Digital Underwriting Abstract, and Reinsurance Group of America, Incorporated (RGA), a leading global life and health reinsurer, announced a collaborative partnership designed to strengthen and streamline the underwriting process.

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Key risk trends for directors and officers in 2023: potential recession, cyber and ESG concerns

Which are the main factors driving the possibility that a company and its board of directors may be sued by investors or other stakeholder groups in 2023? A poor financial performance or even insolvency amid economic uncertainty and the prospect of a global recession, a lack of robust cyber security and governance processes, or an inadequate or non-compliant response to environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues are among the key risk trends in the Directors and Officers (D&O) insurance space, according to Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty (AGCS). Despite a downward trend in new filings, US class action securities litigation remains a key concern, particularly around mergers, while cryptocurrency companies and exchanges are subject to increasing activity, the insurer’s annual D&O report also notes.

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Sayata Launches At-Bay’s Admitted Cyber Insurance Solution for SMBs

At-Bay introduces MPL coverage via API

Insurance startup At-Bay announced that its Miscellaneous Professional Liability insurance product will now be available via API to wholesale brokers, multi-carrier platform providers, and other distribution partners who service the insurance and small-to-medium sized business community

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Legal & General announces first Canadian Pension Risk Transfer transaction

Legal & General Group plc (“Legal & General”) announces that it has agreed its first Pension Risk Transfer (PRT) transaction in Canada for more than CAD $200 million (£114 million). The Canadian PRT market is an attractive and fast-growing market, which has more than doubled in size over the last five years to reach sales in 2018 of CAD $4.6 billion (£2.6 billion).

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Insurtech Company Oyster Raises $3.6M

Oyster, an insurance technology company that provides personal insurance through seamless point-of-sale and post-purchase experiences, today announced that it has raised a $3.6 million financing round.

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Chubb to Launch New Technology Hub in Thessaloniki, Greece

Chubb, the world’s largest publicly traded property and casualty insurance company, announced today it will launch a new technology services center in Thessaloniki, Greece in early 2023 to deliver innovative technologies that enhance the customer experience, increase efficiency and accelerate the company’s digital transformation.

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Will insurance digitalization introduce a new social platform?

Covid-19 has accelerated online shopping and customer convenience has become critical. But even before COVID, Wolt, Zoom, and current consumer habits, all the signs were there, way before the race for digitalization. In fact, shortly after the emergence of social media in 2003-2004, businesses realized its potential and started utilizing it for marketing and business purposes.

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LuckyTruck raises $2.4M for insurtech, taps industry veteran as CEO

Insurtech company LuckyTruck announced Thursday it has raised a $2.4 million seed extension led by Candid Insurance Investors with participation from Markd, Draper University Ventures and SiriusPoint as the company scales its retail insurance platform that reduces time spent shopping insurance. Since its founding in 2019, LuckyTruck has raised a total of $6.5 million.

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What does the metaverse mean for insurers?

The metaverse is a concept making headlines across the globe, with its application being imagined across all industries. However, until recently, the practical manifestation and future impact of the metaverse was unknown.

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Munich Re Ventures Leads US$10 Million Series for Travel Insurtech, Faye

Munich Re acquires API-focused insurtech

Reinsurance giant Munich Re has acquired apinity GmbH, a start-up that supplies application programming interface (API) solutions in the form of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) for the insurance industry’s ecosystem.

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McKinsey: Autonomous mobility – The future of auto insurance

Most consumers are used to buying a car and insurance separately—and the latter can be a laborious process. Consider a hypothetical US consumer of the future, Jane, who acquires her first semiautonomous car, attracted by its connected technology and advanced-safety capabilities. Crucially, it comes with insurance that calculates her premium payments by automatically assessing her driving in real time through the wireless connectivity feature incorporated into such vehicles.

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The Modern Insurtech “Tech Stack”

While some may look at the recent negative press and abysmal stock performance surrounding public insurtechs and assume that the insurtech threat is receding, the insurance industry’s digital transformation is inevitable.

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Munich Re Ventures Leads US$10 Million Series for Travel Insurtech, Faye

Electric vehicles: How to address this growing market from an insurance perspective

In recent years, e-mobility has achieved a breakthrough in many markets around the world. The question is no longer if electric vehicles (EVs) are coming and will replace traditional powertrains, but rather how they are coming and when they will take over the largest share of the global powertrain mix. For details on how to differentiate between non-plug-in electric vehicles and plug-in electric vehicles, see below.

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Can Large Insurers Ever Innovate Like Their Insurtech Rivals?

The term “digital innovation” is used a lot. Within the insurance sector, it can describe everything from the digitization of a paper-based form to the digitalization of an entire workflow. It is often used interchangeably with “digital disruption” and the transformational change brought about by new entrants like insurtechs.

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What is driving customers towards Insurtech platforms?

The pandemic has accelerated the digital transformation of the insurance industry. Driven by industry trends, customer expectations, and regulatory pressures, digital innovation has resulted in the creation of a new space called InsurTech that is aimed at the seamless delivery of insurance products.

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Lloyd’s CEO John Neal on the role of insurance today

“Awareness of insurance and its value has never been higher,” said Lloyd’s of London CEO John Neal, as he addressed delegates at the Marsh McLennan Rising Professionals’ Global Forum, referring to how recent events have shaped “the most uncertain landscape seen for generations.”

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The FinTLV Israeli Insurance/Insurtech ecosystem

Israel’s insurtech ecosystem continues to grow and develop. Because insurance affects all facets of our lives, it is a multi-faceted industry that includes many nuts and bolts. Here is a complete map of the Israeli insurance / insurtech ecosystem:

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Four Ways Embedded Insurance Will Transform the Industry in 2022

The demand for embedded financial services has been seen across the industry, with the insurance sector being no exception. Embedded insurance has the potential to remove the hassle from a purchase, create tailored products, allow the insurer total control of what they want to sell, and help close the ‘protection gap’.

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McKinsey: What insurtechs need to scale successfully

Tech-driven innovation is fundamentally reshaping the insurance industry. Emerging capabilities including telematics, artificial intelligence and machine learning have transformed nearly every aspect of the insurance value chain and continue to create new omnichannel experiences for customers.

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How automation can focus insurer resources

Insurers have made significant investments in improving their data assets over time. Large-scale IT projects are replacing legacy systems, data lakes and warehouses are being built and new policy and claims administration systems have been installed. All with the promise of improved data quality and greater data availability.

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Tech is improving underwriting—but not in the way you’d think

In this blog series, we’ve looked at the latest entry in the only longitudinal survey of underwriters in North America. The study, which is run in partnership with Accenture and The Institutes, provides vital context for tracking the trajectory of underwriting, which is the heart of any insurance carrier’s business.

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How to perfect the science behind driving rates

Insurance companies are on a constant quest to price risk better using data scientists, actuaries and decades of loss history. Over the years, they have sought (and found) better proxies for driving risk, having started with age before moving on to zip codes, occupation and credit scores.

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