Digital Insurance Collective
Blog: The death of the chief digital officer
As dead as a CDO-do; terrible pun, but with Andrew Brem departing as chief digital officer at Aviva and not being replaced, Jonathan Swift mulls whether this job title will soon be going the way of this flightless bird
Blog: Setting the pace for change
Technologies such as driverless cars, telematics and the connected home are changing the world of insurance, with the need for more modularisation of coverages, and components that can be used in different ways to suit particular niches and markets. Dean…
Blog: Diary of an insurtech start-up, episode 4: The heat is on
As insurtech start-up Digital Fineprint learns about the benefits of collaboration, James Stuart Clarke explains the ins and outs of daily life in the insurtech world.
Blog: Diary of an insurtech start-up, episode 3: The quickening
Start-ups have to go to great lengths to attract business, both literally and figuratively, writes James Stuart Clarke, head of sales and partnerships at Digital Fineprint.
Blog: Engaging tomorrow's customers today
Insurance has traditionally been considered a grudge purchase, driven by the legal requirements for cover and a desire for financial protection. Indeed, 41% of respondents in a Consumer Intelligence poll said they thought of insurance as "a necessary…
Interview: Guy Goldstein, Next Insurance
As Next Insurance launches today a chatbot allowing personal trainers to quote and buy insurance via Facebook Messenger, its founder and CEO Guy Goldstein tells Jonathan Swift how the American insurtech start-up plans on revolutionising the SME…
Blog: Seven Asian insurtech start-ups to watch in 2017
Despite the US being seen as the pre-eminent center for insurtech investment, it in no way has the monopoly on all the good ideas.
Week in Post: Moves and booze
For the first time ever, I had to purchase home insurance this week and despite working with the insurance industry, I had no idea how to go about it. So I ended up on an aggregator site.
Six insurtech start-ups to watch in 2017
To celebrate the return of the Post Digital Insurance Collective, I thought I would take another of my periodic looks at some of the newer start-ups in the insurtech space with some connection to the UK.
Reinsurers increasing insurtech investment to counter growing competition
Reinsurers are increasingly investing in insurtech to mitigate external threats from venture capital investment, experts told Post.
Insurtech start-up In My Bag launches with Hambro Perks funding
Mobile professional insurance specialist In My Bag has formally launched with funding from Hambro Perks and the underwriting support of ECIC.
Start-up broker Cuvva launches pay-as-you-go motor insurance
Pay-as-you-go broker, Cuvva is to launch a car insurance product for people who use their vehicles infrequently.
Blog: Pop goes the bad rep - How Lemonade and AI are putting the fizz in insurance claims
In the first weeks of 2017 two stories have really caught the imagination of the insurance claims community.
Digital Insurance Collective Blog: Where do MGAs fit in?
A lot of attention has been drawn to the digital developments that are being undertaken by insurers in the direct market but, while direct is an important market, transformation of the indirect channel is also deserving of more attention.
Women entrepreneurs: Insurance start-ups
Five female insurance entrepreneurs give Jonathan Swift the lowdown on the start-up sector
Blog: Think like a start-up or face digital insurance failure
Last week, Post gathered more than 150 people together at the Business Design Centre in Islington for the first ever Digital Insurance World.
Digital Insurance World: Live
Live updates from Post's Digital Insurance World event.
Digital Insurance Collective: Don't always start with the customer
When you think of digital transformation, it's tempting to only rework your customer-facing systems. But if you don't upgrade your back-end systems as well, your approach will fall short
Could other start-ups follow the Beyonce name-checking Lemonade in seeking musical inspiration
This week saw the launch of the much trumpeted and anticipated peer-to-peer insurer Lemonade.
Why 'unhackable' blockchain could revolutionise the insurance industry
Everyone’s talking about it, but is anyone really doing it? There’s a continuous chatter surrounding blockchain, so isn’t it about time more firms used the distributed ledger system?
Digital Insurance Collective Blog: What to offer Millennials
Millennials are consumers of insurance products and their experience of other service providers influences their expectations of insurers. But what about attracting and retaining this generation and its massive employee talent pool?