Leveraging Blockchain to Transform Insurance Industry

December 25, 2015

Blockchain has huge process-efficiency and cost-savings potential that spans the entire insurance value chain, including information gathering, underwriting, rating/pricing, billing, claims and regulation. In addition to improving these existing insurance operations, blockchain technology is inspiring industry innovations such as decentralized autonomous organizations, event-based insurance, index-based insurance, and peer-to-peer insurance. This whitepaper explores the insurance business processes and operations that blockchain applications may impact, now and in the future.

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Hastings Direct

Hastings Group is a fast growing, agile, digitally focused general insurance provider providing services to the UK car, van, bike and home insurance market. Big enough to compete but small enough to grow, the Group has strong relationships with all major price comparison websites, a cost effective digital marketing model and a focus on customer retention.

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