Consumer indifference is still a challenge for personal cyber insurers

whitePaper | January 3, 2020

As insurance firms adapt to maturing markets and economic turbulence, in the long run, their ability to integrate technology, talent, and business-model innovation into legacy environments may be the key to success. The insurance industry remains resilient, continuing to generate growth around the world and maintaining overall profitability despite turbulence in the global economy.

whitePaper | August 1, 2022

After enjoying healthy margins for several years, insurance organisations aren’t as profitable as they once were. McKinsey’s 2022 global insurance report finds that, after decades of stable returns, more than half of insurers now earn less than their cost of equity. Worldwide, around half of all listed insurance organisations have traded below book value over the past five years.

whitePaper | August 25, 2021

As the contours of a postpandemic economy begin to take shape, the implications for privateequity (PE) investors in the insurance sector are also coming into focus. When we last published our perspective on this space, in November 2020, insurance-industry M&A activity was on the rise, insurtech IPOs and special-purpose acquisition companies (SPACs) were taking off, and uncertainty around the timing of COVID-19 vaccines and the “next normal” loomed large. Today, many players in US and European markets are applying insights from their 2020 performance to emerge stronger amid increased consolidation, digitization, and specialization, as well as persistently low interest rates.

whitePaper | September 26, 2022

CRIF has been supporting the UK insurance market for over 25 years and has built up solid know-how in fraud patterns, use cases and fraud prevention. This A to Z insurance fraud guide aims to bring together all our research and experience in the field of insurance fraud, all in one place.

whitePaper | May 16, 2022

The combination of high-resolution aerial imaging and artificial intelligence has practical applications for multiple use cases, such as manufacturing defects detection, environmental impact studies and planning, urban vegetation mapping, and precision agriculture. Now, as major natural disasters have increased, the insurance industry is using aerial imagery and AI for damage assessment. This is part of an expanded focus on post-event analysis that uses data, AI, and analytics to understand risk mitigation. Aerial imagery and AI can help address varying spectral bands of resolutions and other factors that the human eye cannot easily connect.

whitePaper | September 9, 2022

The insurance market is in constant change due to several global circumstances that are constantly growing, on which depend the opportunities, but also the challenges of today’s insurers. Moreover, the COVID-19 pandemic has left the industry with nowhere to hide. Coronavirus and the resulting lockdown have affected every corner of the business world, and the political, social, economic, technological, budgetary and energetic uncertainty resulting from the situation has become a day-to-day.