AXA plans to invest $84 million in one of the world’s largest e-commerce companies – Africa Internet Group – in a deal that will give the insurer an 8% stake and make it one of...

South African price comparison site Click n Compare will be rebranding to Compare Guru and introducing an animated character called The Guru over the next month. Also, the new site will feature a financial...

“Celebrity, silly and deadly serious seems to be the new formula” – former vice chairman of advertising agency Droga5, Andrew Essex, on Super Bowl ads. Worth Noting: fintech startup SoFi was...

In honor of Black History Month, Allstate is introducing a national digital, social media and radio campaign, called “Worth Telling”, that spotlights the accomplishments of 10 African-Americans who are paving...

Mumbai-based 5-month-old insurtech Turtlemint has raised an undisclosed amount of funding led by Nexus Venture Partners to add more products (think: life insurance) and take on bigger rivals such as Policybazaar and...

San-Fran based startup Zendrive has raised $13.5 million in Series A funding led by Sherpa Capital for its software that analyzes data coming off smartphone sensors to gather information on safe driving, part...

AXA Strategic Ventures is among the backers of a $55 million fundraising by Montreal-based blockchain startup Blockstream, which partnered with PwC earlier this year to develop distributed ledgers called sidechains that are interoperable...

“Think of robotics as a solution for 10% of a typical high volume business process (like claims processing in insurance), cognitive is able to automate the rest” – VP of Marketing...

Prudential entered the life insurance market in Zambia by acquiring the country’s fourth largest life insurance company Professional Life Assurance. Recall: Prudential has operations in Ghana, Kenya and Uganda. Fine Print: subject to...

A new study compiled by Citizen Lab and the Munk School of Global Affairs, called “Every Step You Fake: A Comparative Analysis of Fitness Tracker Privacy and Security”, reveals fitness trackers...

Barmenia Insurance, an independent insurance group in Germany, and KASKO, a startup helping insurers bring their products to the point of demand, launched a pilot program that allows customers to purchase car insurance on AutoScout24.

“It is not easy, in fact, [to] build trust with this completely new approach in an industry whose credibility was undermined by businesses like yours [for] years systematically” – Knip founder...

A new campaign from Progressive takes a different spin on Super Bowl advertising. Think: a Super Duper Bingo game that will roll out for Super Bowl Sunday with the grand prize of...

Aviva CEO Mark Wilson says insurance “has been dominated by two forms of distribution – tied agencies and banks” and both channels are “expensive for consumers”. This is the same...