Avis Budget Group today announced a multi-year deal with Lyft, in which it will offer Lyft drivers on-demand access to rental cars for personal and commercial use directly from the Lyft...

Shelter Insurance, a mutual insurance company headquartered in Columbia, MO, is implementing a program to provide additional electronic payment options by way of CommerceVantage® Claims Payments, Commerce’s innovative technology for...

The British Insurance Brokers’ Association (BIBA) is now offering drone insurance in collaboration with provider of specialist and corporate insurance, Tokio Marine Kiln. Available to BIBA brokers via One TMK, the...

Didi Chuxing, China’s largest ride-hailing service is investing $1 billion into its auto services platform, which will now be consolidated under a new business called Xiaoju Automobile Solutions Co.   Available...

wefox is announcing its entry to the Italian market with a strategic partnership with Mansutti SpA, “one of the country’s largest family-owned brokerage firms.” As part of the partnership, wefox...

Legal & General’s Fintech business has made a £3m investment in Smartr365, a cloud-based end to end mortgage technology platform. Founded in 2016 with the aim of helping mortgage brokers deliver...

Austrian insurer UNIQA is now partnering with Playbrush, a London and Vienna-based tech company that digitalizes oral care for children.   Starting this month, Playbrush subscriptions in Germany and Austria...

AXA and Vodafone Ukraine have partnered to launch SMART TRAVEL, a travel insurance policy that can be instantly activated via mobile.     Ukrainian Vodafone subscribers with a prepaid account...

Buddy, the Richmond, Virginia-based startup offering term life and a “one of a kind episodic accident insurance”, is showing signs of life. And here’s the quote process on Buddy’s website:...

Tokio Marine Seguradora, the Sao Paulo-based subsidiary of Tokio Marine Holdings, has launched Brokertech, a new digital platform to support brokers in today’s digital world.     The new platform...

Earlier this week, Gusto announced a $140m Series C round. Today, Namely, the HR platform for mid-sized companies, is announcing a $60m growth round, bringing its total funding to date...

Orig3n, a Boston-based biotech company announced a new partnership with online insurer ZhongAn, to bring health tech solutions to Chinese consumers.     ZhongAn, which raised $1.5 billion during its...

Following the $1 billion investment from June, Grab is announcing another $1 billion round from several investors including Ping An Capital, the venture arm of Ping An Insurance. Grab will...

Prudential Asia today announced an exclusive partnership with UK-based healthcare technology and services company Babylon Health, to offer customers in up to 12 Asian markets 24/7 access to a comprehensive set...