Business Wire | October 14, 2020
OWIT Global, a provider of insurance-specific microservices solutions for the global insurance industry, is pleased to announce the immediate availability of its new version of the Integration microservice which is designed to support the industry’s need to create and manage system integration needs. The OWIT Global Integration microservice contains insurance-specific, pre-programmed interfaces to popular insurance services, such as CoreLogic MSB, Experian, Google Geo, Maprisk, and OFAC. The microservice also has pre-programmed interfaces to popular industry solutions. OWIT Global’s Integration microservice provides the ability to configure the connection to any relational database, for example, OneDrive, Excel, and external rating engines. The microservice supports XML, JSON, Value, Excel, CSV, with SQL data scheduled. The data elements are managed through the integrated OWIT Global Rules microservice and through a “no-code” tool to define the massaging, conversion, and transformation of all incoming and outgoing data. All OWIT Global microservices use the integration microservice to connect with each other and with external systems. Additionally, by leveraging the OWIT Global Integration microservice, insurers can configure and alter integrations between internal and external systems.
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LIFE INSURANCE
MIB, Paperless Solutions Group | November 30, 2020
MIB, the life insurance industry's generally trusted and secure partner for data-driven services, declared that it has acquired Paperless Solutions Group (PSG), a computerized solutions supplier. The obtaining extends MIB's arrangement of solutions pointed toward making the application and endorsing processes snappier and more productive.
MIB's extended portfolio will incorporate PSG's items and apparatuses that mechanize and encourage the application process, including necessity gathering, signatures, policy conveyance, application accommodation and endorsing risk appraisal. These services incorporate deftly and effectively with transporter frameworks and supplement MIB's current items, which assist guarantors with evaluating risk during and after the endorsing process.
"PSG has a long history of service to the life & health space with a special eye to process improvement," said Jeff McCauley, President of PSG. "The team and I are very excited to join the MIB Group as we believe the alignment of our products, services and personnel will bring even more innovation to the industry."
PSG's tools can be used individually, or on a bundled basis, and are easily incorporated into a carrier's existing systems through robust API plug-in capabilities. "We believe PSG's platform could provide significant value to the life insurance industry by streamlining the underwriting process and providing an efficient and reliable portal to collect key data closer to the point of sale," said Winikoff. That value is of critical importance as the life insurance industry looks to new technologies to help them drive efficiencies.
About Paperless Solutions Group
PSG is a leading provider of cloud-based software solutions for the life insurance and financial services industry. Our products and services provide unparalleled automation and integration for the insurance services industry. These innovative offerings conduct millions of transactions annually by enabling the presale, new business and underwriting, point of sale, and post-sale support.
About MIB
MIB Group, Inc. is the life and health insurance industry's most trusted and secure partner for data-driven risk management and digital solutions that protect the financial integrity of its members and clients while addressing their evolving needs. Owned by its members who span the life insurance industry, MIB is uniquely positioned to provide data-driven solutions that address common industry challenges and enable clients to gain efficiencies, manage their risks, and grow profitably.
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INSURANCE TECHNOLOGY
Balance RE | September 01, 2021
Balance Re, the life reinsurance start-up specialised in quantitative asset-liability management, today announced it has raised $10m in Series A funding from leading financial services investor Anthemis Group, with participation from Global Brain and the company's existing investors, Roland Berger Industries GmbH and Talabot Finance.
Balance Re offers comprehensive reinsurance solutions to life insurance companies and pension funds to support capital management related to their retirement and saving products. The Series A investment will be used to further develop Balance Re's proprietary asset-liability management technology and to support its fully licensed German reinsurance company based in Cologne.
In Balance Re's launch market, Germany, Solvency II's transitional measures represent on average ca. 150 percentage points of life insurers' solvency capital ratios. Balance Re's technology-first and data-driven approach to reinsurance instead enables its clients to release capital to fund growth, support product repositioning and improve (or regain) a competitive advantage. Thanks to real-time risk management capabilities, Balance Re is the first reinsurer able to offer to its clients easy-to-implement and cost-efficient reinsurance solutions which transfer the challenging interactions of financial and insurance risks.
Balance Re's new shareholders, Anthemis and Global Brain, bring in-depth knowledge of the insurance sector and expertise in technologies dedicated to the financial industry, ideally complementing the experience of Balance Re's initial investors rooted in investment management and corporate strategy.
Lucian Rautu and Michel Gauer, the founders of Balance Re, commented: "We are delighted to welcome Anthemis and Global Brain in the capital of Balance Re and at the Board. Their deep industry knowledge and capacity to take an "outside-of-the-box" approach to venture investments in the insurance space make them the perfect partners to disrupt the life reinsurance market".
Matthew Jones, Managing Director at Anthemis, said "Balance Re's team and their technology reflect the complex interactions between actuarial, financial, accounting and regulatory matters. Balance Re's coverage is designed to help clients reach their strategic goals whilst also keeping the interests of their policyholders in mind – we're excited to see them drive much-needed change in the life reinsurance sector."
Naoki Kamimaeda, Partner at Global Brain, said "We believe that the technology developed by the Balance Re team has far reaching applications beyond life reinsurance and Europe. We are enthusiastic to join them at this important stage of the journey and look forward to helping them realise their vision to improve the management of long-term insurance and pension liabilities globally."
About Balance Re
Balance Re tackles one of the most fascinating problems of life insurance: managing the complex interactions between insurance and financial risks. These problems exist in a multifaceted environment spanning actuarial, financial, accounting, and regulatory matters. To operate at the crossroad of so many fields, Balance Re takes down the cultural silos between insurance, investment, and technology to blend the expertise required to solve its clients' needs for truly comprehensive risk transfer.
About Anthemis
Anthemis cultivates change in financial services by investing in, growing, and sustaining businesses committed to improving the world. We are founded on three guiding principles — authentic collaboration, virtuous cycle outcomes, and diversity and inclusivity and our deep understanding of markets and models, passion for emerging technology and values inspire everything we do. By creating fertile ground for a diverse group of start-ups, investors, entrepreneurs, institutions, academics, and visionaries to converge, we believe we can solve the financial services world's most pressing challenges faster, better and for the benefit of all.
About Global Brain
Global Brain is an early-stage venture capital firm based in Tokyo. It supports start-ups that tackle pressing problems, create innovation, and contribute to the stimulation of the Japanese economy and beyond. Its high-achieving, experienced professionals identify excellent start-ups through multiple global locations in Europe, US and APAC, and provide hands-on growth support. Global Brain's total asset under management is over US$1 billion, making it the largest domestic independent venture capital firm.
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