Jan 2, 2020
Most insurers have started exploring the opportunities the blockchain can deliver to their business. With 81% of insurers globally familiar with the technology, some areas of focus are fraud prevention, the digital tracking of medical records, and developing smart...
Dec 19, 2019
By the end of this year, forecasts anticipated that there will be more than 14-billion Internet of Things (IoT) devices in use with that number expected to reach 25-billion by 2021. Furthermore, the global market for IoT is projected to grow significantly between 2018...
Dec 17, 2019
Fintech start-ups have transformed the market for consumer lending in the US and other mature credit markets, by giving people an alternative way of borrowing money without having to go through a bank or a traditional lending institution. We see a similar trend...
Dec 2, 2019
In the 1980s and early 1990s, South Africa was viewed as having one of the most modern payments system in the world. By Martin Grunewald, executive head: payments business at BankservAfrica Since then, we haven’t necessarily kept up with continuous modernisation...
Nov 22, 2019
After a long period of debate as to whether the hype is justified, the time of insurtech is at hand, with innovators in this sector helping to reinvigorate insurance with tech-driven business models that completely transform the customer experience. That’s the...
Nov 18, 2019
.If the crystal ball-gazers are to be believed, hardly any of us will own our own cars in the next 10 years. By Gideon Galloway, CEO of King Price We won’t even do our own driving, as fleets of self-driving cars whoosh us silently to where we want to go. And as...
