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ACORD Names Top Ten InsurTech Leaders of 2019
“ACORD’s Top Ten InsurTech Leaders list features visionaries operating throughout the insurance value chain, from large, established incumbents to small startups. For real change to happen, we need long-time industry leaders and new players with fresh perspectives to work together,” said ACORD President and CEO Bill Pieroni.
Google fined $167 million in France amid crackdown on online advertising
The fine is France’s third biggest monopoly abuse penalty since 2009. French regulators are separately investigating Facebook Inc. following a complaint from Criteo. said Isabelle de Silva,president, France’s Autorite de la concurrence, It will also set up a new digital unit to handle internet issues.
Online retail sales meagre in India: WB Report
Small and medium enterprises in the region reported that removing regulatory and logistical challenges to e-commerce would increase their exports, employment, and productivity by as much as 20-30 percent. To overcome these hurdles, the report proposes reforms in areas such as payments, delivery, market access regulations, consumer protection, and data privacy, at the national, regional, and global levels
Is China winning the Insurtech Race
The funding gap between the US and China has become much smaller over the years: Whereas US insurtechs have raised EUR 5.8bn in total in 2018, total funding in China amounts to EUR 4.1bn – more than four times the European figure. The Chinese figure is even more amazing against the backdrop of the size of the Chinese insurtech landscape: Only 7% of the insurtech companies analyzed are located in China, but 55% are in the U.S. and 38% in Europe.
Govt reforms will make India a very competitive, efficient economy: Kant
India has gone digital. That’s the biggest transformation that has taken place.As a result, India has become hugely data-rich, even before it has become rich. This data richness of India has led to over 1,000 startups working in learnings, artificial intelligence and they are doing the kind of disruption that the world has never seen before. Many of them are doing pathbreaking work,” Kant told
Porsche bets rich Indians will pay to show off electric cars
Porsche, which sells 350-450 cars a year in India, is looking for a boost to those figures when it launches its new Cayenne Coupe on Friday, followed by the Taycan by July. It unveiled the latter in China, Germany and Niagara Falls in September, with a starting price outside India of $150,900 and a potential base version costing below $100,000. That underscores the model’s central role in parent Volkswagen AG‘s push to become a leader in battery-powered vehicles.
US agency probes 12th Tesla crash tied to possible Autopilot use.
While autonomous vehicles are an exciting development, the tech is simply not ready to be deployed safely. Congress must act to protect the public from these vehicles until their safety can be assured,” said Senator Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut, who is a member of the Senate’s Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation.
Shipping industry and insurers face uncertain new fuel risks and rule
To reduce emissions of toxic sulfur that cause premature deaths, shipowners who have long relied on the dirtiest residues of oil extraction will have to either switch to low-sulfur fuel or install exhaust gas cleaning systems from Jan. 1.
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.
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.”