05 September 2022
The London Market Group is working on an Intelligent Market Reform Contract, a digitised version of current insurance contracts underwritten in the London Insurance market which are created as Word documents, then saved as PDFs and often still printed...
29 August 2022
Suncorp has claimed an industry first by using artificial intelligence to crunch images of 9 million Australian homes, doing away with half the questions asked of prospective policyholders, such as whether their roof is tile or Colorbond or if they have a swimming pool...
29 August 2022
Insurers are lagging other industries in making use of Artificial Intelligence to meet the expectations of modern customers and keep them happy, Accenture says...
29 August 2022
India-based insurtech AccelTree Software says it has been invited to meet with insurers and broking firms in Sydney and Melbourne this week to showcase its point-of-sale solutions...
29 August 2022
Insurers will have access to combined risk data on floods, tropical cyclones and hurricanes with unprecedented detail under a new partnership between risk modellers Reask and Fathom...
29 August 2022
Uses for augmented reality in insurance are growing, with demand for the technology turbo charged by the need for remote inspections due to covid, GlobalData says...
29 August 2022
Satellite data analysis software firm Earth Blox is making use of data from Google Earth’s engine to offer environmental risk assessment...
22 August 2022
Investment in insurtechs plunged 80% last year to $US2.21 billion, GlobalData says, and funding growth is unlikely in 2022 as only about half last year’s total had been invested by the end of July...
22 August 2022
Google veteran Barney Pierce has been appointed Senior VP President of Partnerships Asia Pacific at Cover Genius...
22 August 2022
Nasdaq-listed data analytics firm EXL has been categorised as a local leader in business process outsourcing in both Property & Casualty and Life & Retirement insurance by ISG Provider Lens...
22 August 2022
NYSE-listed property and casualty insurance software provider Sapiens has partnered with marketplace Intellagents, allowing insurers access to hundreds of data and insurtech providers...
15 August 2022
More than a fifth of 352 global executives surveyed by GlobalData said blockchain was “all hype and no substance” and rated it less use to the insurance industry than augmented reality, internet of things, 5G, cloud computing, cybersecurity and artificial intelligence technologies...
15 August 2022
Insurtech Australia will host another hybrid industry future mobility event on Wednesday, the third in a series...
15 August 2022
Melbourne-based insurtech Ok Away has partnered with Israeli tech company Air Doctor...
15 August 2022
UK insurtech Quotech has raised £1 million from investors, including Convex Group, to support creation of its custom-built technology platforms for underwriters and distributors in commercial and wholesale insurance globally...
08 August 2022
Global insurtech investment rose 8% to $US2.41 billion in the second quarter, up 8% from the previous quarter but only half 2021’s bumper second quarter...
08 August 2022
Insurtech Coverhero has launched a new Application Programming Interface, is creating partnerships with marketplaces for an embedded insurance model and expects to launch in North America next year...
08 August 2022
Cover Genius has added Buy Now, Pay Later provider Zip Co to the growing list of firms deploying its XCover embedded insurance platform...
08 August 2022
Insurtech Australia has welcomed two new insurtech members as well as its latest ecosystem partner, law firm Hamilton Locke...
08 August 2022
HDI Group’s venture capital firm has participated in a €19 million funding round for new Berlin-based space start-up LiveEO, which provides satellite-based monitoring of facilities and critical infrastructures...