International professional services firm Deloitte has mapped out four major scenarios for the future of China's health ecosystem, namely, national infrastructure boom, precision healthcare innovation, thriving consumerisation, and smart population health.
Insurance brokers are betting on e-marketing to expand their customer base, including reaching out to new customer segments.
The Financial Services Authority (OJK) is preparing regulations covering the marketing of insurance products through digital platforms, said Mr Riswinandi, the chief of the non-bank financial industry supervision department at the regulatory agency.
Internet, electricity and mobile services provider Slingshot has formed a partnership with digital insurer Open, enabling the delivery of house, contents, and landlords' insurance along with energy, mobile and broadband on a single bill.
Agricultural insurance premiums will exceed CNY160bn ($24bn) by 2025, when this branch is forecast to become the second-largest non-auto class of business of property insurance companies.
Malaysia's Finance Minister Zafrul Tengku Abdul Aziz has unveiled the Labuan International Business and Financial Centre (Labuan IBFC) Strategic Roadmap 2022-2026 to transform the Labuan IBFC into a dynamic and sustainable international centre that links and supports the economic growth of Asia's markets and contributes to the national economy.
The Central Bank of the UAE (CBUAE) has launched a digital supervisory platform (DSP) project to oversee the insurance sector on a holistic basis.
Waterdrop, a New-York listed mainland Chinese technology platform company dedicated to insurance and healthcare service, has said that it expects to achieve overall profitability on a non-GAAP basis for 2022, subject to its continuing investments in established businesses and new initiatives.
A report by InsurTech Go Digit has revealed that there has been a spike in demand for travel policies in India in FY21-22 compared to pre-COVID levels in FY19-20.
The Central Bank of the UAE (CBUAE) has disclosed that total paid insurance claims relating to COVID-19 amounted to AED790m ($215m) in 2021, marginally lower than the AED800m paid in 2020.