Recall Melody. The Denver-based startup that launched in 2015 as Melody.   Had a change of heart and rebranded to Canopy.   To later return to Melody because they ran into legal snafus.  ...

XL Catlin today announced the appointment of Vincent Branch as Chief Executive for Accelerate, its new expert team focused on innovation and insurtech.   Accelerate is led by XL Catlin’s...

Jerusalem-based venture fund JVP and French giant Axa announced the launch of Insurtech Israel , a startup competition offering $1 million from JVP and a potential investment of up to $17...

CNinsure, an independent online-to-offline (“O2O”) financial services provider in China, announced its financial results for Q3, 2016. The unfiltered version, here. The digestible version, below.   Bird’s-eye view. China’s insurance...

Recall: Zensurance is a Canadian startup that launched this year to allow small business owners to answer just a few questions online and get multiple insurance quotes. The company cuts down on questions...

Toronto-based Sun Life announced it has reevaluated how it underwrites health risks to redesign its life-insurance app and cut down on the amount of instances intrusive-slash-fluid tests are needed. As a result, the insurer expects that...

Munich Re Digital Partners, aka Munich Re’s global venture designed to partner with “digital disruptors” who are changing the way insurance is experienced by customers, has announced its latest pickup. Think: Wrisk,...

In a special white paper termed “Underwriting, Automation and the Customer Journey”, the folks at SCOR discuss the use of underwriting engines defined as decision making systems that “focus on the customer...

Esurance is slowly but surely expanding its homeowners insurance product to additional states .    

Yesterday Baidu announced that it had started testing self-driving vehicles in Wuzhen but that its relationship with BMW is on the rocks “because the development pace and the ideas of the two companies are a...

California-based startup Nuzzle wants to address two things: a lost pet and a sick pet. Nuzzle, which just launched today, is a GPS-enabled pet collar coupled with a mobile app that allows...

BNP Paribas, aka the bank for a changing world, is offering guidelines for financial institutions on digital technology and innovation via a new report termed “Rules for Digital Revolutionaries“.   Bottom Line...

“Already with the candidacy of Donald Trump, we have been operating our activities in the USA at a reduced pace since we have seen the development on the US market...

What is the Mannequin Challenge? a social media craze that sees people uploading videos of them looking as though they’ve been frozen in time. How did it start? not important, really...