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.
Swiss-headquartered fintech startup Cerchia has raised CHF 1.3 million in seed funding from High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) and other investors, to help finance the ongoing development and first product launch of its capital markets direct risk transfer platform.
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Arbol, a technology-led underwriter of parametric risk transfer, climate and weather insurance or reinsurance business, has announced the hiring of Hector Ibarra as its new Vice Chairman of Latin America (LATAM).
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Kettle, the reinsurance focused deep-learning and artificial intelligence (AI) insurtech that launched with a California wildfire focus, has announced its hiring of former Fidelis underwriting leader Brian Espie as Chief Underwriting Officer, while Amit Shah has been promoted to President of Kettle Limited.
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Vesttoo, the insurance-linked securities (ILS) focused insurtech company, has made another key hire, bringing onboard former Aeolus Capital Management analyst James Anfossi as a Portfolio Manager based in Bermuda.
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Descartes Underwriting, an insurance technology (insurtech) focused managing general agency (MGA) that specialises in parametric and data-driven risk transfer products, has announced the launch of a full-stack insurer, named Descartes Insurance.
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Tremor Technologies, the insurtech operator of a programmatic risk transfer marketplace, has said that on average its reinsurance pricing and placing platform enables cedents to achieve full programs, in authorised capacity terms, in less than 72 hours.
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Reask, a provider of catastrophe modelling, climate analytics and data that leverages machine learning techniques and artificial intelligence, has hired nat cat risk modelling expert David Schmid to lead its parametric insurance product offering.
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Andy Marcell, the CEO of Aon’s Reinsurance Solutions, has highlighted the slow and delayed start to the reinsurance renewals and implies the lack of quoting activity has become an issue, calling on reinsurance markets to “move towards” risk at this renewal, not away from it.
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Descartes Underwriting, an insurance technology (insurtech) focused managing general agency (MGA) that specialises in parametric and data-driven risk transfer products, has announced the hiring of its first Chief Revenue Officer.
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Arbol, a technology-led underwriter of parametric risk transfer, climate and weather insurance or reinsurance business, has hired experienced ILS lawyer Matthew Gabin as its Chief Legal Officer and Deputy Chief Operating Officer.
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