News

EU: Consumers CAN Demand Cash Refunds After Corona Cancellation

Big news. Despite months of lobbying the EU has rejected the travel industry’s collective pleas to force consumers to accept vouchers, rather than cash refunds on cancelled flights and holidays. Here’s the official word from […]

InsureTech

Lead Ventures Puts Cash Into Amodo’s Start-Up Gas Tank

Lead Ventures is making a EUR 3 million investment in Amodo. The Budapest based venture capital firm, specializing in scale-up financing, is assisting the growth of Amodo, an insurtech company based in Croatia. Funds will […]

Opinion

Pet Insurance Market Growth; Digital is The Key

Corona may well cause a recession, but it’s not all bad news. Aquarium Software takes a look at the growth opportunities in the pet insurance sector.  According to the North American Pet Health Insurance Association, […]

Motor Insurance

KASKO and OCC Partner Up On New Classic Car Insurance Product

KASKO, the London InsurTech company changing the way insurance incumbents and startups scale and launch new products, has announced its latest partnership with German Managing General Agent (MGA) OCC. The digital classic car offering for […]

News

EU Approves State Aid Plan for French Credit Insurance Market

The European Commission has approved, under EU State aid rules, a €10 billion French guarantee scheme to support the domestic credit insurance market in the context of the coronavirus outbreak. Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager, in charge […]

Opinion

Coronavirus and Insurtech: Quo Vadis?

Christian Wiens, CEO and Founder of GetSafelooks at the future landscape for insurtechs after the Corona epidemic; The coronavirus crisis is halting large parts of economic life. Some industries are suffering more, others less from […]

Insurance Regulation

EIOPA Publishes Second Report on Insurance & Pensions Investments

The European Insurance and Occupations Pensions Authority (EIOPA), has today published its second report on cost and past performance of insurance-based investments products (IBIPs) and personal pension products (PPPs) in the European Union. The report is published following a request from […]