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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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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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Four Themes Will Shape The Future Of Insurance
Technology alone won't drive sustainable competitive advantages. Partnerships, people, products, and processes will factor heavily into four themes that will shape the future of insurance.
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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, […]
See Why 2023 Fortune Favors The Bold And Focused
Explore our 2023 Predictions to see where strategies are shifting – and where opportunities for bold moves exist.
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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 […]