Tag: Insurance
Insurance: InsurTech collaboration is key to the future
Insurance companies are increasingly seizing the opportunities presented by InsurTech disruptors, rather than warning against the challenges they pose.
The shift has seen an increase...
75 major banks join blockchain payments network
Internet of Business says
While many in the banking sector have railed against blockchain and cryptocurrencies this year, suggesting the former is a systemic risk...
John Hancock pushes fitness tracking for life insurance policies
North American life insurance provider John Hancock is to link life insurance policies to holders’ fitness trackers, in what it claims is a drive...
Internet of Insurance: MicroStrategy’s Robert Davis on democratising data analytics
Hot on the heels of his keynote presentation at our Internet of Insurance event in London, MicroStrategy’s Robert Davis, VP product management EMEA, sat...
Cyber-attack insurance coverage poor in UK compared to elsewhere: report
Only one-third of senior executives in UK organisations say that their company insurance currently covers them for a security breach and for the financial...
Internet of Insurance Connected homes create peace of mind: British Gas...
EXCLUSIVE Andrew Hobbs reports from our Internet of Insurance 2018 event in London, as British Gas Insurance CEO Ed Dutton calls for a new...
Q&A | How telematics is making insurance more personal, with RSA’s...
After seeing success supplying telematics boxes to its car insurance customers, RSA Insurance Group is applying similar technology to its home and pet products....
Fintech: Intelligent automation could add $512 billion to finance sector
A new report from Capgemini’s Digital Transformation Institute reveals that, by 2020, the financial services industry could reap up to $512 billion in new global revenues...
10 steps to a successful business case for IoT
In this must-read guide to building a business case for IoT programmes, Andrew Hobbs reveals how best to identify and act on digital innovation...
Cyber attack could cost bank half of its profits, warns IMF
Cyber risk has emerged as a significant threat to the financial system, according to a new report from the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
Although hardly...
“Cryptocurrency systems can’t scale or be trusted” – central banking organisation
UPDATED The more popular cryptocurrencies become, the less trustworthy and efficient they are, according to a key central banking organisation.
Cryptocurrencies are “not scalable and...
Q&A: Generali’s Davide Burlon on how IoT, AI will transform insurance
Davide Burlon, head of Actuarial Analytics at Generali, talks to Andrew Hobbs about how machine learning, the Internet of Things (IoT) and other emerging technologies...