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Health insurer Oscar and online broker PolicyGenius have at least one thing in common; neither considers their digital offerings to be mainly a millennial play. Oscar cofounder Mario Schlosser says that even though...
In partnership with Munich Re, Sompo Insurance, and USAA, Plug and Play (P&P) is launching their newest accelerator program called Plug and Play Insurance, because until now, insurance has been...
“I don’t think it’s a tragedy that a competitor got a better rate in one time frame. We don’t worry about the fact that someone else had a better quarter”...
Knip picks up more criticism (here and here) in large due to its lack of transparency. Customers are not clear about the model of Knip and the contract involved, insurers complain...
China’s second-largest insurer Ping An is making a profit and distancing itself from the competition, but for how long? The good: net profit rose 4% in the first quarter, as...
French insurer CNP Assurances backs fintech startup Lendix, which has been busy acquiring its smaller competitor Finsquare and raising $13.5 million. Bottom Line: a leading European P2P lending platform in the making.
“For us it’s about customer acquisition not efficiencies” – Trov founder Scott Walchek at the recent OnRamp conference in Chicago. The on-demand microduration, micro coverage, mobile player announced a new...
New look. New experience. Before. After. If not now, when?
CNP Assurances, a socially responsible investor involved in funding economic growth, is taking an equity stake in Lendix, France’s leading platform for lending to SMEs. In doing so, the Group,...
UK’s Phoenix Group is likely bidding for Axa’s SunLife. Curb your enthusiasm.
42 new startups that specialize in smart things. 1 in 7 received over a million euro in funding. Bottom Line: a drop in the bucket; over 350 IoT startups across the globe with 3.7...
Premium finance provider Bexhill UK has launched a peer to peer lending platform specializing in the insurance premium finance market because “Insurance premium finance and insurance broker working capital are historically...
Mexican mobile payments platform Saldo recently debuted a microinsurance service called Consuelo, which offers US immigrants access to health and life insurance products. For those planning an insurance conference (you know who you...
“I mean, we were trying to get from Monday to Tuesday, much less get into the FTSE 100” – cofounder of Admiral Insurance Henry Engelhardt recalls the early days while celebrating his departure.
Consumers can now shop and buy BOP quotes via Berkshire Hathaway’s online commercial insurance brand Cover Your Business. Someone, somewhere, is worried.
