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First blockchain-based agricultural insurance policies for smallholder farmers in Sri Lanka

Historically, there were major barriers preventing farmers from utilising insurance, including the lack of affordable and reliable insurance products, a lack of understanding about how insurance would help a farmer survive, and when and how a claim would be paid. This new blockchain technology directly addresses those issues as the insurance products are automated

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Five Facts on Fintech

Asia is ahead of other regions in many aspects of fintech. In China, the massive scale of its markets and a regulatory “light touch” in the early years supported fintech development, with China emerging as a global leader. In India, large-scale adoption of mobile payments and increase in money transfers have driven growth in the mobile payments

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Cyber Liability: the last frontier of the insurance

Buyers are turning to carriers for comprehensive pre-breach and post-breach cyber risk management services, and carriers are responding, either directly or by offering these services through third parties.  Some of these services include network vulnerability scanning, penetration testing both internally and externally of the network, assistance with business continuity planning, GDPR readiness and more

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Robots on track to wipe out a tenth of manufacturing jobs by 2030: Report

While automation should boost the economy as a whole, it is likely to create greater inequality as employment losses are concentrated in certain industries and countries. Manufacturing could lose 20 million positions by 2030, making the sector 8.5% smaller than “if robots were not remaking the market,” according to the research firm’s report.

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Lloyd’s underwriters team up to “insure the uninsurable” with a £53m capacity

The market-led solution, led by senior underwriters from Tokio Marine Kiln, Beazley, MS Amlin, Talbot, Liberty Specialty Markets, Hiscox, Ascot, Chubb, Chaucer, Brit, Antares and Apollo will trial new types of insurance for complex and non-standard risks, including, but not limited to, intangible assets and supply chain risks, or mishaps caused by artificial intelligence.

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