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Startups find new ways to assess risk and create new businesses tied to auto insurance

Data on everything from how frequently a car is booked, the type of vehicle rented, the destination, the amount of time between making a reservation and the trip, how hard the driver slams on the brakes to how punctual and friendly a person is on the drive could all be fair game for the industry.Startups like Turo Inc. and BlaBlaCar believe they can take this information and use it to find new ways to assess risk and create new businesses tied to auto insurance.

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AXA XL announces Collaboration with Slice Labs and Microsoft to Improve Cyber Risk Management

“This new level of integration with Microsoft and Slice Labs reinforces the fact that insurance is no longer an after the fact product that companies should use as a band-aid when an incident occurs,” said John Coletti, Chief Underwriting Officer, AXA XL’s cyber insurance team in North America. “We’re excited to bring a solution to market that only large enterprises have procured in the past to SMB’s who need it just as badly.”

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Robots in finance could wipe out some of its highest-paying jobs

“Financial machine learning creates a number of challenges for the 6.14 million people employed in the finance and insurance industry, many of whom will lose their jobs — not necessarily because they are replaced by machines, but because they are not trained to work alongside algorithms,” Lopez de Prado told the US House Committee on Financial Services.

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LIC removes convenience fee on credit card payments

Henceforth, all digital collections will be free of charges for customers. With this initiative, LIC’s valued policyholders can transact online seamlessly, free of charges. This facility of free transactions using credit card shall be applicable to and implemented across all collecting systems (Card less payment and card dip / swipe on Point of Sale machines).

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