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.
Descartes Underwriting, the insurance technology (insurtech) focused managing general agency (MGA) that specialises in parametric and data-driven risk transfer products, has opened its first office in London as it targets regional growth and improved access to international risks in the London market.
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Vesttoo, the technology company that uses proprietary artificial intelligence and machine learning solutions with the goal of helping companies assess and transfer risks to the capital markets, has announced a high-profile new addition to its advisory board, with former Swiss Re CEO Jacques Aigrain becoming Chairman.
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Tremor Technologies, the insurtech with a technology-based programmatic insurance and reinsurance risk transfer marketplace, has added another innovative feature to its software, now launching Tremor Blackboard™ a real-time collaboration tool so remote and global teams can work together on their reinsurance placements.
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Tremor Technologies, the insurtech with a technology-based programmatic insurance and reinsurance risk transfer marketplace, has announced the launch of Marketplace 2.0, a new iteration of its software that has been redesigned with risk transfer users in mind.
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We’re hosting another live webcast along with our sister publication Reinsurance News on November 4th, with the discussion set to be focused on the use of technology within the reinsurance industry and the importance of data as a driver of future innovation.
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Swiss Re Corporate Solutions, the commercial risk focused arm of the global reinsurance firm, has partnered with a provider of compact internet-connected seismographs in Japan, enabling it to use more responsive, in-situ, parametric trigger data sources.
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Hudson Structured Capital Management Ltd., which enters into insurance and reinsurance investment business as HSCM Bermuda, has invested again in property data focused artificial intelligence and imaging insurtech Tensorflight, participating in the startups Series A round alongside other re/insurance sector venture teams.
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A new insurance-linked securities (ILS) marketplace provider has been registered in Bermuda and has joined the regulatory sandbox of the Bermuda Monetary Authority (BMA), with the Blackbird ILS Marketplace promising to bring securitized cyber and specialty lines business to investors in a fixed income format.
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Munich Re Ventures, the insurtech and related risk technology investment arm of the global reinsurance company, has closed a $500 million capital raise for a new Munich Re Fund II and now looks to broaden its approach to investing in the most innovative start-ups transforming the future of risk.
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HSCM Ventures, the venture investing arm of insurance-linked securities and reinsurance specialist investment manager Hudson Structured Capital Management Ltd., has led a $4.5 million seed funding round for data-driven workers’ compensation insurtech startup Insurate.
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