Micro Insurance

TIER Raises Another $250m, As Money Pours Into Climate Change Agenda

TIER, the European micro-mobility leader, recently announced the completion of a $250 million Series C funding round led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2. Existing investors including Mubadala Investment Company’s financial investment arm, Mubadala Capital, Northzone, […]

News

US News: Snapsheet Partners With Getaround on Car-Sharing

 Snapsheet, a pioneer in cloud-native claims management technology, announced the expansion of a long-term partnership with Getaround. The carsharing platform that empowers users to instantly access and drive cars nearby selected the Snapsheet Claims platform to […]

InsureTech

Partnerships: AG Insurance Launches co.mobility Platform

Mobility needs and solutions are evolving at speed. London may see e-scooters road legal later this year, more PAYG insurance, such as Zego’s app-based policies, may well become the norm for occasional car drivers. Car-sharing, […]

News

Can Ford Help Make e-Scooters A Safe, Practical Commuter Option?

Spin, the micro-mobility unit of Ford Motor Company that crafted the first stationless micro-mobility permit in the United States of America, announced its international expansion plans. The company will launch its first international fleet of […]

Opinion

Hastings Profit Drop Highlights Car & Motorbike Insurance Transformation

Disclaimer: Your IE editor was once a happy Hastings customer, with a Triumph motorcycle covered at a fair price, via a call centre chat once a year. That was over a decade ago however, and […]

InsureTech

Think Your InsurTech Brainwave Has Potential? Prove It. NavVid Did.

The insurance sector has been overwhelmed with insurtech investment, new start-ups, labs, innovation hubs, hackathons and much more in the last three or four years. Investment keeps pouring in, and there’s no doubt that companies […]

News

Sharing Economy Offers Huge Growth Potential, Says GlobalData Report

The growth of the sharing economy, a system in which assets or services are shared between private individuals, has been relentless, and it has shaken up the way the insurance industry has traditionally understood liabilities. […]

Insurance & Reinsurance

Memo To Insurers; EV Leasing/Sharing Could Steal Your Market. Seriously.

Straight talking from the Editor’s keyboard; Newsflash; WeShare, Volkswagen and ŠKODA’s free-floating car sharing service, is to expand into seven further cities in Germany and other European countries in 2020. WeShare will be offering an […]