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Insurers, Reinsurers Are Taming InsurTech Startups to Suit Their Investment Needs: Willis Towers Watson
Traditional insurers and reinsurers played a big part in fueling InsurTech startup investment momentum in 2017. By doing so, they tamed potential rivals, turning them into a source of technology to ...
InsurTech in Emerging Markets: Will China Win?
Without legacy systems to drag down their efforts, companies in emerging market—and China, in particular—may be poised to outpace U.S. and European counterparts developing InsurTech innovations. ...
Channeling Disruption: Why Underwriters Need to Rally Around Small Biz Insurance Brokers
The role of the small business insurance broker is under assault as the rise of InsurTech disrupts the traditional insurance value chain. With more than $5 billion invested in InsurTech startups ...
InsurTech Investment Is Surging in Europe as Carriers Modify Customer Interactions
Insurers are counting on real-time technology to help them cut back payouts, from a system warning ships of nearby pirates to an app offering to buy sleepy drivers a coffee on the motorway. The lure ...
Q2 InsurTech Funding Hovers Close to $1B as Demand Grows Unabated
InsurTech funding volume hovered close to $1 billion in the 2017 second quarter, a result nearly 150 percent larger than the same period a year ago, according to a quarterly report on the sector from ...