International Private Medical Insurance

whitePaper | March 7, 2023

No single insurer is spared by fraud. Globally, fraud is estimated to cost the insurance industry hundreds of billions of GBP per year. This figure isn’t just fraud on an individual or opportunistic scale, but also the result of insurance fraud networks who represent an industry unto themselves.

whitePaper | April 21, 2022

Progress in the areas of robotics, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) continues to define a new era of automation in finance. In the last decade, one such focus area for many financial organisations has been automating and modernising key back-office processes like reconciliations. Yet the insurance industry has lagged behind in this regard, relying on outdated reconciliation procedures far longer than any other financial sector. The result is that many firms today struggle with critical issues like differing data formats, manual processes and IT dependencies.

whitePaper | June 29, 2022

The world economy is undergoing paradigm shifts that will have profound long-term policy implications. Global economic growth is set to slow sharply and inflation rates are at multi-decade highs. The latter result from a confluence of factors, including the high levels of fiscal stimulus pumped into the economy at the height of the COVID-19 crisis, disruptions to global supply chains and soaring energy and commodity prices due to the war in Ukraine. We believe several major economies face inflationary recessions in the coming 12–18 months.

whitePaper | May 9, 2022

The pace of change driven by digital transformation is rapidly increasing as new generations of agile competitors emerge. Insurance businesses, too, are evolving to keep pace with the latest business trends and update their products and services.

whitePaper | January 18, 2023

Anyone who follows the InsurTech space knows that Shift Technology started life by applying artificial intelligence (AI) and advanced data science techniques to the challenges of identifying suspicious claims and helping insurers make better decisions about what to do with them when they were discovered. Fast forward to today, and Shift is supporting insurance decisioning across the policy lifecycle and throughout the claims process. This depth and breadth of experience gives us incredible insight into the trends shaping the insurance industry.

whitePaper | October 31, 2022

Some 58.1% of non-elderly Americans (158 million people) receive health care benefits through their employers as of 2019, making employer-sponsored insurance (ESI) the nation’s largest source of health coverage. ESI is the foundation for the nation’s public-private health system, but rising health care costs continue to put pressure on employers seeking to offer the same level of benefits and to boost wages. Similarly, employees are seeing their health insurance premiums rise in the face of stagnant real wages. Even the largest private employers lack the resources or market power to prompt and sustain the systemwide changes needed to improve the value they receive for their health care spending.