Insurance & Reinsurance

Reinsurance & Commercial Lines: Sapiens Teams Up With KW Specialty

 Sapiens International Corporation, (NASDAQ and TASE: SPNS), a leading global provider of software solutions for the insurance industry, announced today that KW Specialty Insurance Company, a specialty insurance company who will partner with the wholesale distribution channel, […]

Technology

ISG Looks to Europe For Insurtech Opportunities

There is no let-up in the pace of change across the insurance industry, or the flow of investment in insurtech, as companies race each other to transform their old call centre brokerages, paper-dominated underwriting operations, […]

Global insurance trends

ACORD Conference Looks to Streamline Industry Standards

ACORD, the global standards-setting body for the insurance industry, will recognize a number of insurance leaders who have donated assets for the benefit of the ACORD community and the industry at large with Industry Contributor Awards, to […]

InsureTech

Lucep Wins MetLife collab 3.0 Insurtech Award

MetLife has announced Lucep as the winner of its collab 3.0 EMEA programme, which offered insurtech innovators the chance to win a USD $100,000 contract to pilot their solutions with MetLife. A record 148 start-ups from 32 […]

Business

Next Insurance Raises $83m to Fund US Expansion

Next Insurance, announced today that it has raised $83 Million in a Series B Round. Led by Redpoint Ventures, this funding will enable Next Insurance to continue its expansion throughout the US as a full service insurance […]

Global insurance trends

Insurers Not Keeping US Customers Happy, Says J.D. Power Survey

Because insurance is usually a distress purchase, or perhaps a legal requirement, it doesn’t have the feelgood factor that say a superb Swiss watch, a new car or perhaps an exotic holiday bestows upon the […]

Household Insurance

buzzvault Picks up DIAmond Award at Amsterdam Insurtech Event

buzzvault, the world’s first digital asset vault to be built on the blockchain has won the highly prestigious DIAmond Award at the Digital Insurance Agenda in Amsterdam this week. The award came after Becky Downing, CEO […]

Big Data

Opinion: In a Digital World Customer Engagement is Crucial for Brokers

In this Opinion piece, Vijaykumar Mahendrakar, (pictured) Vice President, Insurance Solutions, UK & EMEA at Mphasis, takes a look at how our digital economy is transforming the broker business. Online competition is driving down commissions […]