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15 Emerging Risks from Policies to Playgrounds, Sandboxes to Scooters
Oct 18 2018 // When insurance experts are asked what they see as the most important emerging risk for the property/casualty insurance industry, their consensus is cyber in some form. While cyber obviously poses tremendous risks, some...
Marsh Develops Blockchain Solution for Clients in Sharing Economy
Oct 3 2018 // Marsh announced that it is developing the first blockchain-based verification solution for clients in the fast-growing sharing and gig economies. Working in collaboration with Evident, a data security platform that allows...
Greenlight Re Invests in Hong Kong-Based Blockchain Business
Oct 2 2018 // A division of Greenlight Capital Re has invested in a blockchain-related business based in Hong-Kong. The Cayman Islands-headquartered property/casualty specialist reinsurer said it pursued a strategic investment in...
Marsh Makes Blockchain Proof of Insurance Accessible Through Salesforce
Sep 27 2018 // Insurance broker Marsh is expanding its collaboration with IBM to provide clients with access to the industry’s first commercial blockchain product for proof of insurance through the Salesforce customer management...
Walmart Ready to Mandate Blockchain for Certain Food Suppliers
Sep 27 2018 // After several years of tests, Walmart Inc. is ready to mandate use of blockchain technology by a swath of its U.S. suppliers, marking one of its biggest commercial uses. Starting in September 2019, Walmart and its...
Global Insurers Realize Innovation Is Critical for Future Success: A.M. Best Survey
Sep 25 2018 // A significant majority of global insurers understand that innovation is increasingly becoming a competitive differentiator in the global marketplace, according to the results of an A.M. Best survey of its rated...
Industry Blockchain Initiative B3i Gets Ready to Go Live for January Renewals
Sep 12 2018 // The industry’s Blockchain Insurance Industry Initiative (B3i) announced a year ago it had developed a reinsurance blockchain prototype for a property excess-of-loss (XOL) contract and asked the industry to help test...
15 Emerging Risks Worth Watching That Are Not Cyber
Sep 3 2018 // When insurance experts are asked what they see as the most important emerging risk for the property/casualty insurance industry, their consensus is cyber in some form. While cyber obviously poses tremendous risks, some...
Extraordinary Re’s Extraordinary Idea for Trading Insurance Risks Like Stocks
Aug 15 2018 // Imagine there’s a way for institutional investors to trade insurance risks much like they trade stocks. Well, imagine no more. A new and unique reinsurer, Extraordinary Re, has hit upon the novel idea of creating a...
Crypto Prediction Market on Blockchain Raises Regulatory Concerns
Jul 27 2018 // The next confrontation between government regulators and a blockchain startup appears set to ensnare a prediction market platform that goes by the name Augur. After going live on July 10, Augur allows anyone to create...
Interest in Crypto Insurance Grows, Despite High Premiums, Broad Exclusions
Jul 23 2018 // In the staid and buttoned-up world of insurance underwriting, few want to talk about it. You won’t find many ads promoting it or details on company websites offering it. But according to industry insiders,...
Strategic Blockchain: Xceedance and ChainThat Gain Critical Mass
Jul 20 2018 // Xceedance decided to jump on the blockchain bandwagon late last year – but rather than building its own platform, it invested in ChainThat, a specialist provider of blockchain solutions for the insurance and reinsurance...
Reinsurers, Insurtech Startups Increasingly Seek Mutually Beneficial Partnerships
Jul 18 2018 // Reinsurance companies increasingly are funding insurtech startups in order to structure more innovative products and improve their business efficiencies, but how much impact on the industry will these investments...
CFA Institute Adds Cryptocurrency, Blockchain to Curriculum
Jul 17 2018 // It might be the definitive sign that cryptocurrencies have arrived on Wall Street. CFA Institute, whose grueling three-level program has helped train more than 150,000 financial professionals, is adding topics on...
What’s Next for Major Blockchain Firm R3? IPO or Sale?
Jul 13 2018 // R3, a blockchain-software company that works with more than 200 heavyweights such as Intel Corp., Microsoft Corp., US Bancorp and Wells Fargo & Co., is considering going public, according to people familiar with the...
Blockchain Is Tech Evolution That Will Create Re/Insurance Revolution: B3i’s Marke
Jul 11 2018 // Blockchain technology is moving out of the lab and into the insurance business. It’s moving past the hype phase and is edging closer to providing real-life efficiency improvements for the industry. It’s been a...
Canada’s Fineqia International Takes Stake in Blockchain Startup Black Insurance
Jul 11 2018 // Fineqia International Inc., a Vancouver-based technology company, announced it is taking an equity allocation in Black Insurance, a blockchain insurance startup. Terms of the investment were not disclosed, but Fineqia said...
California Workers’ Comp Rating Bureau Exploring Blockchain, Behavioral Science
Jul 2 2018 // One wouldn’t normally associate blockchain with workers’ compensation, two completely different industries that seem worlds apart. But as it turns out, the technology is of value to at least one very important...
California Workers’ Comp Rating Bureau Exploring Blockchain, Behavioral Science
Jun 22 2018 // Powered by InsuranceJournal.tv One wouldn’t normally associate blockchain with workers’ compensation, two completely different industries that seem worlds apart. But as it turns out, the technology is of value...
B3i Chooses R3’s Corda Blockchain Platform for Development of Business Network
Jun 19 2018 // B3i, The Blockchain Insurance Industry Initiative, has announced it will build its applications and business network on the Corda blockchain platform, supplied by software firm R3. Following an extensive evaluation, which...
