Insurance technology, now known more widely as Insurtech, has the potential to bring significant efficiency & disruption to reinsurance, ILS & risk transfer markets.
Insurtech a hot trend with everyone from traditional reinsurance incumbents, as they seek to improve efficiency and stay ahead of the game, to brokers who are seeking to avoid disintermediation, to insurance-linked securities (ILS) players who see it as a way to enhance the efficiency of their capital even further.
The potential for Insurtech and Fintech initiatives to bring efficient capital, such as ILS capital and alternative reinsurance capital from third-party investors, more directly into contact with risk is huge. The opportunities to use technology to shorten and optimise the chain from original risk, to insurance, to reinsurance, to retrocession (or final capital source), will create winners and losers in the market, making this a trend to watch closely.
Two of the co-founders of under-fire insurtech Vesttoo have now been fired by the Board, with CEO Yaniv Bertele and Chief Financial Engineer Alon Lifshitz now officially removed from the company, and a new allegation has been reported, that a 2019 transaction facilitated by Vesttoo also had a fake letter of credit (LOC).
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During its bankruptcy case, beleaguered insurtech Vesttoo has been approved by the court to continue paying its staff, including certain employee benefits and expenses, but at a hearing this week the US Trustee balked at the suggestion terminated staff and founders may receive payments.
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The latest in the Vesttoo bankruptcy case, is that the insurtech’s lawyers have engaged with counsel for Aon’s White Rock Insurance (SAC) Ltd. and the Joint Provisional Liquidators for the White Rock cells that are subject to Bermuda court action, coming to an agreement for an order that would enforce an automatic stay on an […]
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Clear Blue Insurance Group is the first external organisation that has signed up to appear in the Chapter 11 bankruptcy case of beleaguered insurtech Vesttoo, as the fronting specialist looks to protect its rights as a possible creditor.
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As we suspected might happen, Vesttoo is indeed claiming ownership of the White Rock Insurance (SAC) Ltd. segregated cells or accounts that are subject to the legal action that broker Aon’s White Rock Insurance SAC vehicle alongside regulator the Bermuda Monetary Authority (BMA) began last week.
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Vesttoo has stated in filings to the US bankruptcy court, that the joint action begun Friday, by broker Aon’s White Rock Insurance SAC vehicle alongside regulator the Bermuda Monetary Authority (BMA), is in violation of the automatic stay that began with its Chapter 11 filing.
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Insurance and reinsurance broking giant Aon through its White Rock Insurance (SAC) Ltd. company is joining forces with the Bermuda Monetary Authority (BMA) to pursue “maximum recovery” for the re/insureds affected by the alleged fraud involving Vesttoo related segregated accounts.
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Alongside its filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the United States, under-fire insurtech Vesttoo has also filed for insolvency relief under the Israeli court system.
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The China Construction Bank (CCB), which is the main bank named in relation to the fraudulent letter of credit (LOC) scandal involving insurtech Vesttoo, grew its activities significantly as an LOC issuing and confirming bank in 2022, rating agency AM Best noted.
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Artemis has learned from sources that the investors behind collateralized reinsurance transactions facilitated by insurtech Vesttoo where the letters of credit (LOCs) guaranteeing the limits have been deemed invalid are China-based.
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