Atos to acquire digital dynamo Syntel for $3.4bn
Syntel provides cloud, social media, mobile, analytics and IoT solutions.
Insurance
Banca IFIS launches digital insurance platform Rendimax
Focused on customer service, without any intermediaries.
Allianz completes Ensure Insurance acquisition in Nigeria
All part of its plan for long-term growth in Africa.
BlackFin Capital’s fintech fund gets €180m
Says it is the largest independent fintech fund in Europe.
Insurtech Digital Risks feeling brisk with £2.25m funding
Firm offers a monthly subscription model for start-ups.
Next Insurance next firm to receive $83m funding
As a national insurance carrier, the firm has big plans in the US.
Eye in the sky: how drones can shape underwriting
Drones are hitting the mainstream – but how do they impact insurance?
Accenture to power RiskBlock’s insurance platform for blockchain
Accenture joins as lead framework architect.
Podcast: AI for impact – delivering value in the near term
How to get the most out of your AI strategy now, not just in ten years time.
Canadian financial data firm Flinks fuels up with $1.75m funding
With Luge Capital making its first investment.
Planck Re yanks in $12m for insurance plans
Israeli insurtech offers AI-powered commercial underwriting services.
Gresham acquires payments firm B2 Group
To B2 or not to B2? Thanks for asking but headline gives it away.
Three ways health insurers can win over millennial small business owners
Sally Poblete, CEO of Wellthie, explores three key strategies.
Insurtech Bought By Many brings in £15m funding
A quick rise and product roll-out has created interest in investors.
Automation Anywhere scores $250m to globalise bot workforce
Its software robots can take over manual tasks such as insurance claims processing.
Startupbootcamp’s InsurTech Accelerator opens doors to applicants
Selected start-ups will relocate to Hartford, Connecticut.
Nordea acquires Gjensidige Bank in Norway for €578m
Gjensidige offers digital banking, mortgages, and unsecured loans.
SimCorp secures tech deal at Nordea Life & Pensions
Signs a five-year licence agreement.
Patients are a virtue in pacey Prudential claims process
Paperless and chatbots are the cure in Hong Kong.
Stellar to acquire crypto firm Chain for $500m
Stellar is more interested in the developers rather than its technology.
Webinar: kick-start your AI strategy
Do you know when an AI strategy is the right one?
Women in fintech: research and negotiate every offer
It’s time for women to take more control of their careers in fintech.
UK start-up Yulife to bring life to insurtech
The neo-insurer will incorporate AI and behavioural science.
Blockchain insurance company B3i picks R3’s platform Corda
The Blockchain Insurance Industry Initiative makes its choice.
Famous faces bring funding to US insurtech Ethos
Robert Downey Jr. and Will Smith add a touch of glamour… and money.
ING and AXA to build digital insurance platform
Offering insurance solutions to ING customers in six markets.
Insurtech start-up Kakau inks two deals in Brazil, eyes Europe
Kakau onboards American Life and Societe Generale in Brazil; plans to enter Europe in 2020.
First Data and Mastercard in digital disbursement duet
First Data’s disburse-to-debit solution will be available to Mastercard customers.
German banking software provider NDGIT raises $4.7m in funding
The funding round was led by Capnamic Ventures.
Money20/20 Europe: how to build a company that behaves
How financial services can be reimagined by an understanding of human behaviour.
Bahrain National Holding in insurtech revamp with TCS Bancs
New tech is part of BNH’s “ambitious transformation strategy”.
Coya to stir the insurance industry with new influx of cash
Berlin-based insurtech firm Coya gets influx of cash.
Insurers are on the road to change – but are they moving fast enough?
Are insurers keeping up with the rapid developments taking the financial world by storm?
Women in fintech: every business leader needs to embody the values around equality
Why women in tech shouldn’t fall into the trap that your learning journey is ever over.
Kabbage plans payment processing by year end
To help it compete with ever-rising fintech giants such as PayPal and Square.
US insurtech start-up Bestow raises $15m
Brings Dallas-based firm’s total financing to more than $18 million.
Lemonade seeks to sparkle with open source insurance policy
“Every act of creation is first an act of destruction” – Pablo Picasso.
UK regulator knocks out seven shades of fintech hits
Another speech. Another conference. Another plan.
Poland is world’s first for banking records on blockchain
Billon and Polish Credit Office team up for innovation and information.
Lloyd’s of London launches lab for insurtech innovation
Looking out for action in an “increasingly digital, data-driven world”.
