Michael Waitze worked in Global Finance for more than 20 years, employed by firms like Citigroup, Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs, primarily in Tokyo. Michael lived and worked in Tokyo from February 1990 until December 2011. Michael always maintained a particular focus on how technology could be used to make businesses more efficient and to drive P/L growth.
Michael is a leader in the digital media space, building one of the biggest and fastest-growing podcast listener bases in the region. His AsiaTechPodcast.com show has listeners in more than 170 countries and his company, Michael Waitze Media produces some of Asia’s most popular podcasts.
The second half of November was again filled with InsurTech news and the largest InsurTech conference in Asia of 2019, InsurTech Insights, took place in Hong Kong. AIP founder Theresa Blissing was at the conference together with several AIP alumni and shares some of the stories from the two-day conference. In the news in the […]
In this episode, Michael Waitze talks to Jonathan Larsen Chief Innovation Officer at Ping An Group and the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer at Ping An’s Global Voyager Fund. Ping An, founded in 1988, is a world-leading technology-powered retail financial services group and one of the largest financial services companies in the world. If you […]
In this episode, Michael Waitze talks to Walter de Oude, CEO of Singlife. The Singapore headquartered neo-insurer, valued at $360M, acquired a license from the MAS in 2017 and began selling life insurance policies after buying Zurich Insurance’s Singapore business. Singlife closed a $90M Series C funding round on 1st July 2019. This announcement was […]
November continued to busy with InsurTech News coming out of China and India. November 11th is Single’s Day in China and Zhong An reported a jaw-dropping 1 billion CNY (USD 142 million) Gross Written Premium for this date alone. Waterdrop was awarded Innovator Startup of the year and Tencent acquired a 10% stake in Indian […]