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.
Insurdata, an insurtech specialising in software and services to correct, create and augment peril-specific exposure and risk data for insurance and reinsurance carriers, has added the ex-Ventus co-founder Stuart Mercer to its Advisory Board.
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Hudson Structured Capital Management Ltd., which enters into insurance and reinsurance investment business as HSCM Bermuda, has co-led a Series A funding round for rideshare focused insurtech company Buckle.
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Rom Aviv, a former senior employee of insurance-linked securities (ILS ) fund manager Twelve Capital and Israeli investors IBI ILS Partners, is leading insurance for Agritask, an ag-tech and agronomics focused start-up, while Daniel Stander of RMS fame has joined the firm as a senior advisor.
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Cohen & Company, LLC, the fixed income financial services focused investment specialist, has launched its second Special Purpose Acquisition Company, or SPAC, that targets insurance, reinsurance and insurtech investment opportunities.
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In reporting their results today, two of the largest reinsurance brokers displayed growth in revenues and business opportunities in the current firming market conditions, which suggests their profits should increase further over the coming months, as the benefits of harder reinsurance rates globally begin to flow through to their bottom-lines.
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Markel Corporation hopes to see fresh inflows coming into its insurance-linked securities (ILS) business in the second-half of 2020, as the capital markets become less volatile and investor confidence recovers, according to Co-CEO Richie Whitt.
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Investments into insurance technology (insurtech) funding rounds rebounded to reach US $1.56 billion in the second quarter of 2020, a more than 71% increase on the first-quarter of the year.
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Global reinsurance company Swiss Re has appointed a new hire to the role of Global Head P&C Solutions within its Reinsurance Business Unit, as incumbent Eric Schuh is set to leave the company later this year.
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Hudson Structured Capital Management Ltd., undertaking its insurance and reinsurance investment business as HSCM Bermuda, has co-led a $24 million Series A investment round for home and auto insurtech firm Branch.
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Frederik Eloff and James Karim, who previously worked together at a Deutsche Bank start-up ILS fund management unit, have together launched insurtech start-up Marrikel, which positions itself as a reinsurance broking platform.
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