Honey, Koba win Finder innovation awards
24 October 2022
Honey Insurance has won comparison website Finder’s 2022 Best Insurance Innovation award, while car insurer Koba was crowned Best Insurtech Innovation...
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Amazon launches UK insurance comparison service; Allianz signs up
24 October 2022
Retail giant Amazon is offering British shoppers an insurance comparison service and has signed on Allianz’s LV= General Insurance, as well as Ageas UK and Co-op, with more to be added in the next few months...
US insurtech builds blockchain-powered parametric cargo platform
24 October 2022
Brooklyn-based insurtech Otonomi has successfully raised $US3.4 million, backing its parametric cargo-delay insurance offer...
QBE makes first early-stage Australian tech investment
17 October 2022
QBE Ventures has made its first investment in an early-stage Australian-based tech firm, leading a funding round of over $4.2 million in local start-up Iluminr, which uses gamification to train for crises such as cyber-attacks, supply chain disruptions, natural disasters, and pandemics...
Nearmap offers 'health check' for roofs
17 October 2022
Nearmap has announced an expansion of its aerial capture program and says the first product available to customers will be automated ‘health check’ roof condition assessments, with fire and flood risk assessments to be available to customers over the next year...
Skiers hot for Flip's single-day injury cover
17 October 2022
Insurtech Flip, a wholly owned subsidiary of HCF Life, has extended partnerships with Thredbo Resort and Mt Buller as demand grows for its single-day injury cover...
SecondSight says its AI platform unearths true cyber risk
17 October 2022
SecondSight says its new AI-driven platform continuously gathers digital risk intelligence for underwriters and makes “being uninsurable for cyber a thing of the past” for businesses...
Optus breach triggers spike in cyber cover enquiries
10 October 2022
Sydney-based insurtech Upcover says weekly website traffic to its cyber pages jumped 184% after it was revealed a hacker stole the personal data of millions of Optus customers...
Local entries sought for DXC Invitational
10 October 2022
DXC Technology is inviting insurtech community members to enter its Asia Pacific 2022 DXC Invitational...
Save the date: IA to host 2023 InsurtechLIVE in February
10 October 2022
Insurtech Australia will host its annual InsurtechLIVE event in Sydney on February 15...
Credit Clear share price jumps on insurer demand
10 October 2022
Shares in ASX-listed Credit Clear spiked 18% last week after it revealed it signed four contracts with car insurance clients...
RAC Insurance adopts new data analysis technology
10 October 2022
Perth-based RAC Insurance has installed a solution from UK insurtech Earnix that allows it to better manage data analysis to serve its 1.2 million members...
Claim Central’s Wilbur agrees exclusive US licensing
03 October 2022
Global claims solutions provider Claim Central Consolidated says its new technology brand Wilbur has agreed exclusive licensing with US property claims adjuster Eberl Claims Service...
IAG Firemark Ventures joins German insurtech innovation hub
03 October 2022
IAG’s corporate venture capital fund Firemark Ventures has partnered with non-profit innovation platform Insurtech Hub Munich...
Fraud-detection insurtech Friss to host October breakfast
03 October 2022
Chubb Special Investigations Unit Manager Kevin Walsh will address attendees at a breakfast hosted by insurtech Friss on October 20 in Sydney...
Earnix adds Underwrite-It to product suite
03 October 2022
UK-based insurtech Earnix has added a new machine learning-driven underwriting solution to its Intelligent Insurance Operations product suite...
Hannover Re adds personality profiler BestFit to innovation hub
03 October 2022
BestFit, which has customers in Australia, Europe and Israel, has been added to Hannover Re’s Equarium innovation platform...
ITC Vegas hailed a success for Australia's insurtechs
26 September 2022
Australian insurtechs have been strengthening connections with international organisations this month, with a number of an 11-strong Insurtech Australia delegation that attended ITC Vegas 2022 staying on to attend meetings and further US events such as Money20/20 and Boston Fintech Week...
New fast payments a 'step change' in Lloyd's market claims handling
26 September 2022
Lloyd’s managing agents are being urged to migrate onto a new Faster Claims Payment platform over the next six months, which pays claims in minutes in local currencies...
PetSure promotes GapOnly with awareness campaign
26 September 2022
Hollard-owned PetSure’s award-winning on-the-spot in-clinic claiming platform GapOnly has launched a promotional campaign to raise awareness under the leadership of new Chief Marketing Officer Jenny Williams...