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Like most industries, the insurance sector is bring disrupted by emerging technologies. Read about the opportunities and risks brought about by the newest insurtech solutions here.
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The Future Of Insurance: A Look At What Lies Ahead
Forrester analyzed past industry performance and top consumer, regulatory, competitive, and tech trends to help insurers succeed in the next decade.
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The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly: The Role Of Trust In Insurance Fraud
Fighting insurance fraud is only feasible with synergies among the people, process, and technology domains. Find out more in this preview of our upcoming Security & Risk event.
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ITC DIA Europe Conference 2023 Showcases Insurance’s Evolving Landscape
Learn four key themes from this year’s ITC DIA Europe conference: 1) the challenging state of the insurtech industry; 2) the true problem of the protection gap; 3) the rise of embedded insurance; and 4) the usage of AI, including ChatGPT.
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Deliver Trusted Data By Selecting A Suitable MDM Solution
In the era of insights-driven decision-making, master data management (MDM) plays a crucial part by ensuring consistency, accuracy, and reliability of enterprise data. MDM capabilities are a cornerstone of success for companies striving to leverage data as a product in a rapidly evolving digital landscape. Selecting and investing in the right MDM platform is a […]
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How Ecosystems Are Changing Insurance CX
Emerging technology ecosystems are at the cutting edge of innovation, bringing breakthrough solutions to market faster and at a reduced cost. In insurance, this means shorter repair times, lower claims costs, and better CX.
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Inclusive Insurance Is A Massive Business Opportunity — If You Do It Right
Insurers must focus on the ‘S’ of ESG to grow the market — and their revenue. Here’s how insurers can overcome top challenges and achieve scale.
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Predictions 2023: Evolving Risks And Recession Fears Will Redefine Insurer Strategies
The global insurance industry will face a challenging market in 2023, with policy lapses, lower IT spending, and insurtech turbulence.
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Top Four Themes From The Future Of Insurance Europe 2022 Event
This blog post takes a look at four significant insurance themes that emerged from The Future of Insurance Europe 2022 event.
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Meet The New Analyst Covering AI And Insurance: Indranil Bandyopadhyay
New Principal Analyst joins Forrester in the areas of financial service, focusing on insurance and data, AI, and ML.
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Some Research Themes For Financial Services In 2022 (Plus A Survey You Can Take To Help)
We’ve been diving deep into a number of topics that financial services executives and their teams care about (or should care about). Here are just five of the topics we find particularly interesting: Embedded finance. A crop of fintech startups and large financial providers are investing in embedded finance — in which financial products and […]
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Lemonade’s Acquisition Of Metromile: Start Your Engines! The Race For Digital Insurance Supremacy Just Took A New Turn
Talk about timing. Last week, Lemonade revealed Lemonade Car, its entry into auto insurance. This week, it announced the acquisition of Metromile, one of the largest usage-based auto insurers in the world. Insurance technology (insurtech) M&A has been strong, but admittedly, I didn’t expect to see a transaction like this so soon. But I suppose […]
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Connected Insurance: Reality Or Hype?
I speak often with clients about the role of technology in insurance. Of the many innovations we discuss, connected insurance may be the most polarizing. Connected insurance (CI) is nascent across most insurance lines. But evolving consumer preferences and increasing competition from digital-first startups require forward-thinking insurers to harness emerging technology and invest in CI […]
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Insurtech Funding Roundup, Q4 2020: Insurtech Ends A Tumultuous Year Strongly
Despite the tumult of 2020, the insurtech market ended the year alive and (relatively) well. While funding did decline 6% year over year, the fourth quarter was the second strongest for funding in 2020 and the sixth largest since tracking began in 2010. The full version of our quarterly insurtech funding roundup report is on […]
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What A Biden-Harris Administration Means For The Healthcare Industry
The new administration will quickly move to create a healthcare system that tackles key health insurance pain points for consumers: plan quality, accessibility, and costs. Learn what health insurers should expect.
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Insurtech Funding Roundup, Q3 2020: Digital Insurers Drive Another Strong Quarter Of Funding
This year of the pandemic will forever be known for its effect on the way we work and interact. Although our “new normal” will be temporary, the digital transformation it brought about will prove lasting. Amid the chaos, insurtechs, with their digital-first business models, have benefited as their funding has continued to improve. In Q3, […]
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Insurtech Funding Roundup, Q1 2020: Investors Reduce Risk As The COVID-19-Induced Downturn Settles In
Insurtech funding contracted last quarter amid economic uncertainty. As the pandemic and its aftereffects linger, the outlook
remains unclear.
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InsureTech Connect 2019 Conference Reflections
Tech-assisted agency distribution, AI-driven CX, streamlined discovery and fraud detection... the insurance industry is on the cusp of dramatic transformation.
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Hot Or Hype? What Are The Insurance Tech Investments That Will Drive Business Value In 2020?
Insurers are transforming their organizations with digital technologies. Drivers ranging from startup incubators and changing customer behavior to new risks and a potential recession are all influencing the tech investments from both carriers and agent/brokers. So just how likely is it that some of these big-buzz technologies will produce business value in 2020? Forrester is […]