E-commerce marketplaces Amazon & Flipkart and motor marketplaces CarDekho & Droom and what to expect Flipkart‘s entry into life insurance, in partnership with Aegon Life, signals that e-commerce (& motor) marketplaces might be the...
As consumer focused InsurTech start-ups begin to scale, offering in-house technology via a SaaS business model becomes a viable strategy to generate additional revenue! In this blog I present prominent examples from OneConnect & ZhongAn...
Michael Waitze talked to Walter de Oude, CEO of Singlife, for AIP’s podcast episode number 36. Read more about the Siglife story here: About Singlife The Singapore headquartered neo-insurer, valued at $360M [1], acquired a license from the...
Introduction If you love Star Wars like I do, you are quite likely to enjoy this piece. I think enough is written about FinTech so I’ll focus on how the Star Wars timeline explains the progress of the InsurTech ecosystem. In this blog, when I...
What is upstream value capture? An insurance company/full stack InsurTech acquires/builds a PoS marketplace or provider OR acquires/builds a service provider to generate organic leads for insurance sales. Value proposition of upstream...
Ping An Group About Ping An Group Founded: 1988 Began as an insurance company in China; now, a China headquartered holding company with assets spanning across insurance, banking, healthcare and technology verticals. 200M customers...
Introduction Technology press frequently covers EU-based “challenger” (fully digital) banks such as Monzo, Starling and N26. However, neo-insurers in Asia are commonly overlooked with the exception of ZhongAn Insurance. In part 1 of this two...
Background In February 2019, together with Robert Collins, I wrote a blogpost titled “FinsurTech – the future of diversified InsurTech” to document a growing observation that top tier InsurTech firms are foraying into the broader world of finance...