New-Age Technology Adoption

whitePaper | December 5, 2022

The convenience of embedded insurance is making it one of the most desirable forms of insurance distribution for all parties involved. On the demand side, consumers’ appetite for convenience — and their willingness to conduct transactions online — are both higher than ever. The technologies involved in embedding insurance coverage into other products and services have been perfected. As a result, insurers are uniquely positioned to benefit from the rise of embedded insurance.

whitePaper | March 28, 2022

Today ESG is a powerful tool in the insurance industry, presenting both risks and opportunities for businesses. This collection of articles made up Insurance Post’s ESG Exchange 2022 which featured free-to-access webinars, blogs and interviews.

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 | 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 Yet the insurance industry has lagged behind in this regard, relying on outdated reconciliation procedures far longer than any other financial sector.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 | November 15, 2019

The proliferation of big data and artificial intelligence (AI) impacts practically every human enterprise and endeavor. The insurance industry is certainly no different, having historically thrived on developments in data, data analytics, AI and other information technologies. Insurance companies are taking advantage of the digital transformation to automate claims management processes, improve operational efficiencies, and increase the quality of service they deliver to customers with personalized marketing and recommendations. The ongoing race to conquer volumes of heterogeneous data and wring every bit of informational value out of raw intelligence will mean growing opportunities and inevitable challenges for insurers, the insured and most participants in the insurance sector.

whitePaper | June 21, 2022

The challenges facing the insurance industry are piling up. 2020 saw a record number of catastrophic events that each caused at least $1 billion in damages, while the economic contraction caused by the pandemic response affected insurance particularly severely.