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The Story of Salty: From Oxford U. to ‘Embedded Insurance’
Salty owns embedded insurance—literally. "EMBEDDED INSURANCE" is a trademark of Salty Dot Inc. Salty's SaaS platform enables carriers and their distribution partners to offer policies to insure ...
Swiss Insurer Baloise Moves Forward With Insurance Innovations
Swiss insurer Baloise may be nearly 160 years old, but it is a company with its eye on the future of insurance, including embedded insurance. Sibylle Fischer, Director of Strategic Venturing and ...
The Ransomware Epidemic by the Numbers
During a session of the Casualty Actuarial Society Seminar on Reinsurance in June, Alexander Podmore, AVP and cyber underwriter for Swiss Re, defined a growing problem for cyber ...
Systemic Risk Analysis: Are Cyber Insurers Whistling Past the Graveyard?
While ransomware was the hot topic at 2021 midyear insurance industry conferences, discussions of the broader topic of systemic risk—spurred on by recent hacks of SolarWinds and Microsoft ...
‘Katy, Bar the Door’: More Risks Loom for Insurers Post-COVID
The soaring price of lumber was one of the hottest topics on the lips of industry executives speaking at midyear conferences, becoming a focus of discussion almost as often as cyber risks and social ...
Trov’s Evolution: From Barbra Streisand to Embedded Insurance
Trov may be the only InsurTech that began its existence with less than six degrees of separation from the likes of Barbra Streisand and Steven Spielberg. Early business plan pitches brought the ...
Forgotten Your Passwords? They Soon May Be Lost Altogether – With Insurers’ Help
The most popular password in 2020 was exposed almost 24 million times and took less than a second to crack. While a shocking statistic, when you learn that the most popular password of 2020 was ...
How We’re Doing It: What It’s Like to Be Acquired
A smaller company being acquired by a larger one is often compared to a minnow being swallowed by a bigger fish, and that's quite understandable. But that's not always true and, to borrow another ...