272 articles tagged with this keyword
News/startups
Insurtech Gateway has completed the first close of its Seed Fund II, enabling it to back 20 startups over the next four years from pre-seed to Series A.
21 July 2022
News/devops
International insurance company, Zurich, has partnered with low-code platform Mendix to roll-out a Terrorism Data Capture solution for automated coverage, among other updates.
07 July 2022
UK tech-driven insurance outfit YuLife is set for global expansion after raising $120 million in a Series C funding round led by Dai-ichi Life Insurance Company.
Insurely, a Swedish fintech startup that uses open banking data to help insurers personalise premium offers, has signed SEB as a flagship customer.
06 April 2022
News/sustainable
The non-profit arm of insurance unicorn Lemonade has formed a coalition building a blockchain-based climate insurance offering for subsistence farmers and livestock keepers in developing markets.
22 March 2022
British embedded finance network mmob has closed a £5 million seed funding round to finance a move into new markets, including Malaysia.
09 March 2022
News/cloud
CaixaBank has joined forces with vendor D-Wave Systems to apply quantum computing in investment portfolio hedging calculation in the insurance sector.
07 March 2022
Germany's Commerzbank has committed €300 million to the third CommerzVentures fund, which will invest in startups in fintech, insurtech and climate fintech.
02 March 2022
News/retail
Revolut's super app ambitions have taken another step with a move into insurtech through the launch of a pet insurance product.
02 February 2022
Venture capital firm VentureSouq has launched a $50 million fund focused on fintech across the Middle East and North Africa (Mena) region and Pakistan.
23 November 2021
Swiss Re is working with Baidu to develop insurance products for the Chinese technology giant's autonomous driving business.
22 November 2021
Your money is a weapon. It can either be used to tackle the climate crisis or fan the flames. The United Nations’ climate conference in Glasgow, COP26, says it is time to have a serious discussion about how our money can be deployed to save the world.
03 November 2021
News/wholesale
Invoice insurance startup Nimbla has attracted £5.1 million in funding from Silicon Valley's FIN VC with participation from Barclays Bank.
Open finance partnership platform mmob has added a host of firms, including PensionBee, Upside, and Glint Pay, to its network as it bids to become a 'SuperApp-as-a-Service' provider.
13 October 2021
InsurTech Marshmallow has raised $85m as part of its Series B funding round – making it the UK’s latest tech unicorn.
08 September 2021
BigPay, the fintech arm of airline AirAsia, has secured an investment of up to US$100 million from South Korea's SK Group.
06 August 2021
News/predictions
Fintech firms have been missing a trick by largely ignoring the fastest growing and wealthiest demographic - the over 50s, says VC QED Investors.
29 July 2021
News/inclusion
Voyager Innovations, the Filipino technology firm behind popular payments app PayMaya, has raised US$167 million in funding to launch a digital bank.
28 June 2021
Insurance unicorn Lemonade has scrambled to reassure customers after a tweet thread boasting about its AI prowess led to worries that it was treating claimants differently based on physical characteristics.
28 May 2021
Berlin-based mobile bank N26 is moving into the insurance space, offering customers the option to purchase coverage, manage plans and initiate claims in-app for a range of insurance plans from different providers.
15 April 2021
Welcome to Finextra. We use cookies to help us to deliver our services. You may change your preferences at our Cookie Centre.
Please read our Privacy Policy.