White Mountains Insurance Group is exploring the sale of NJ-based D2C software provider Tranzact, less than two years after purchasing a majority stake in the company for $178 million. Tranzact operates in the...

Zurich Australia has upgraded its life insurance adviser app called Flipchart to provide an even more engaging client experience to some 1,300 users all in the name of insurance literacy. Think: an app with...

Gurgaon-based auto insurance startup RenewBuy has raised $1 million in an angel round led by Mount Nathan Advisors, a Singapore-based principal investment and advisory firm. Moving on. UK-based Healthcareinsured.co.uk was launched to assist folks in...

“Manufacturing economy is slowing down, but the services economy is growing very rapidly; services now represent over 50% of the Chinese economy” – Manulife CEO Donald Guloien on why you shouldn’t...

Austin-based Claimatic launched a new app that allows insurers to match the best resource to a claim based on loss location, adjuster or inspector qualifications, availability and other criteria to make the fastest,...

Apparently Axa plans to sell most of its UK life insurance and wealth-investment units, including SunLife. Standard Life made a move; bidding for Axa’s Elevate investment management platform.

Meet Wealthify, a newish online investment service designed for the mass market, launched by Richard Theo and Michelle Pearce. Think: personal investment plans for customers based on their attitude to...

Following the footsteps of Lemonade, UK-based P2P startup Guevara will launch as a licensed insurer. Bottom Line: have patience.

“Fear” – supposedly the F word of insurance in India until Coverfox came in and introduced some fun, aka convenient, informative, transparent, and fast insurance shopping experience. Bottom Line: obvious competitors are EasyPolicy and...

Farmers expanded its ride-sharing coverage to NJ; Geico to a bunch of other states. Farmers provides coverage from the time the ridesharing app is turned on until a ride has been accepted. Geico provides...

Australia-based bike insurance provider Velosure launched a new website. Before: After: Better. Bottom Line: Underwritten by Hollard Insurance because e-bikes are here to stay.

Vision insurance provider VSP Global has invested $2 million into Los Angeles-based startup Vizzario to develop technologies to track visual acuity, measure eye strain, identify traumatic brain injury and improve sports vision. In other...

China’s Hakim Information Tech plans to invest $30.91 million to set up a life insurance firm. All else, TBD.

LexisNexis’s Wunelli developed a 12V telematics device that plugs into the car’s cigarette lighter and allows insurers to gather driving behavior data at around ~15% of the cost of a hard-wired device, but...