Asia InsurTech Podcast

The Asia InsurTech Podcast spoke with Arijit Chakraborty, managing director for APAC at Cover Genius, about embedded insurance and the need for personalization.  Here is the transcript of our conversation.  Michael Waitze   Okay, that’s on. Hi, this is Michael Waitze, and welcome back to the Asia InsurTech Podcast. This is the only show in Asia focused on insurance that gives entrepreneurs, though...

The Asia InsurTech Podcast spoke with Prannay Batra, Director and Head of General Insurance at PhonePe about affinity partnerships and the massive opportunities in the Indian insurance market.  Michael Waitze   Hi, this is Michael Waitze, and welcome back to the Asia InsurTech Podcast. This is the only podcast in Asia focused on insurance that gives entrepreneurs, thought leaders and investors a p...

October ends with some major partnership news! Check out our new episode for more details and to find out which two new guests decided to drop by the AIP News Roundup where we discuss how AIP is getting even better and why blockchain is not dead! This month we saw more partnerships and more investment in InsurTech. In Malaysia, PolicyStreet.com raised RM25 MM in Series A funding and has secured in...

The Asia InsurTech Podcast spoke with Aniruddha Sen, a co founder at Kenko Health about health insurance penetration in India and how Kenko Health is planning to close the gap in the market.  Michael Waitze   Hi, this is Michael Waitze and welcome back to the Asia InsurTech podcast. This is the only podcast in Asia, focused on insurance that gives entrepreneurs, thought leaders and investors a pla...

The Asia InsurTech Podcast spoke with Rajive Keshup, a director at Cathay Innovation and Nicolas du Cray, a partner at Cathay Innovation, about ecosystems, embedded insurance and the role of InsurTechs when it comes to accelerating financial inclusion in Southeast Asia. Find the transcript of our conversation here: Michael Waitze Okay, we’re on. Hi, this is Michael Waitze, and welcome back to the...

The Asia InsurTech Podcast spoke with Mario Berta, the Country Managing Director for Igloo in the Philippines about micro insurance in emerging markets and the potential for new insurance solutions in the Philippines.  Find the transcript of our conversation here:  Michael Waitze   Okay, we are on Hi, this is Michael Waitze, and welcome back to the Asia InsurTech Podcast. This is the only podcast...

The Asia InsurTech Podcast spoke with Roopa Malhotra, the head of digital APAC at Chubb Insurance, about embedded insurance and how to build an innovation culture that embraces digital. Make sure to join Roopa’s keynote panel at the much-anticipated FinTech Connect Asia (5-7 October, SGT): ‘Digital led business models in Insurance – How are start-ups and incumbents innovating and re-imagining the...

Another month with more record-breaking investments in InsurTech. While most economies in Asia are still suffering from the COVID pandemic, investment in InsurTechs is not slowing down. A category that is attracting the most investment is health care. Singaporean Digital health platform Doctor Anywhere raised S$88 million in series C. The startup has a presence in Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Vi...

The Asia InsurTech Podcast was speaking with Ala Ahmad, the CEO of MetLife in Bangladesh, about insurance innovation in Bangladesh. As one of the fastest-growing economies in Asia and with an insurance penetration of 0.5 % of GDP, Bangladesh presents lots of opportunities for insurers and InsurTech.  Find the transcript of our conversation below. Michael Waitze   Hi, this is Michael Waitze, and we...

The Asia InsurTech Podcast was speaking with Aparajit Bhattacharya, a managing partner at Insure First, about what kind of products, processes and technology is required to take insurance to the underserved. Find the transcript of our conversation below: Michael Waitze Okay, we’re on. Hi, this is Michael Waitze, and welcome back to the Asia InsurTech Podcast. This is the only podcast in Asia focus...

The Asia InsurTech Podcast was catching up with Tom Duncan, the Managing Director Insurance and Wealth at Grab Financial Group to dicuss financial inclusion, the power and limitations of embedded insurance and how social media can help increase awareness. Listen to our other episode with Tom here . Michael Waitze Hi, this is Michael Waitze, and welcome back to the Asia InsurTech Podcast. This is t...

There is no summer break for InsurTech. Hong Kong’s OneDegree raised $28 million in a new round of funding and is looking to expand further in Asia. The InsurTech startup holds a virtual general insurance for Hong Kong and also has a SaaS business that operates across Asia. Listen to our 2020 episode with co-founder Alex Leung here . A new episode will come out in a few weeks so stay tuned. Other...

The Asia InsurTech Podcast spoke with Benny Fajarai, a co-founder and CMO at Lifepal, about their latest funding round and how the company is leveraging social media to increase financial literacy in Indonesia and increase insurance penetration. Find the transcript of our conversation below and find our conversation with Lifepall COO Nicolo Robba here . Michael Waitze   Okay, the recorder is on. L...

The Asia InsurTech Podcast caught up with Nadia Suttikulpanich, the head of Fuchsia Innovation-Center for Muang Thai Life Insurance . Nadia has been on the show first in 2019 and a lot has changed since then, especially consumer behavior using digital services. Muang Thai was one of the first insurers to offer telemedicine pre-Covid and the past year has proven the importance of digital solutions...

The Asia InsurTech Podcast spoke with Jonas Piela, the host of the Digital Insurance Podcast in Germany. Since April 2020 Jonas has published podcasts around digital transformation and speaks with C-level executives in the German insurance market.  Michael Waitze and Theresa Blissing took the opportunity to discuss with Jonas the differences between a mature, European market compared to Emerging A...

The Asia InsurTech Podcast spoke with Dhirendra Mahyavanshi, a co-founder of Turtlemint, about how to increase insurance penetration in India and bring insurance to tier two and tier three cities. Turtlemint is one of the early InsurTechs in India and has shown despite the ongoing pandemic solid growth.  Find the transcript of our conversation below:  Michael Waitze   Hi, this is Michael Waitze, a...

The Asia InsurTech Podcast spoke with Romil Turakhia, Head of Markets at Azentio Software and former co-founder at Candela Labs, about the cloud revolution in insurance and the new freedom insurers will experience with SaaS for cloud. Romil shares how he and his team are planning to democratize technology for all insurance players and enable larger and smaller insurers to quickly and efficiently m...

We are kicking off the second half of the year with more incredible news on InsurTech. Global investment in InsurTech is at an all-time high, a trend we have been following in Asia all year. The good news is that investment in established players is increasing and the number of early-stage deals. We are looking forward to seeing several new entries in the market.  But InsurTech is not only about s...

The Asia InsurTech Podcast was catching up with Kamesh Goyal, a founder and Chairman of Digit Insurance, to talk about the massive volatility we are experiencing at the moment and what this means for risk assessment. The course of COVID has proven to be hard to predict, the same applies to weather patterns due to climate change. What does this uncertainty mean for the insurance industry and its ri...

The Asia InsurTech Podcast spoke with Gui Wainwright, a co-founder of Jamm about customer engagement in insurance and the future of telematics. Find the transcript of our conversation below. Michael Waitze We are on. Hi, this is Michael Waitze. And welcome back to the Asia InsurTech Podcast. This is the only podcast in Asia, focused on insurance that gives entrepreneurs, we’ve got one of those tod...

The Asia InsurTech Podcast spoke with Dominique Roudaut, Head of Asia InsurTech Partnership and Innovation Solutions at HannoverRe, about the major trends in InsurTech, namely embedded insurance, parametric insurance, and becoming a risk partner. Find the transcript of our conversation below:  Michael Waitze   Hi, this is Michael Waitze. And welcome back to the Asia InsurTech Podcast. This is the...

The Asia InsurTech Podcast was catching up with Amarit Franssen, a co-founder of Thai InsurTech Appman to talk about the impact of Covid, the future of motor insurance, and Appman’s latest funding round. Find the full transcript of our conversation below:  Michael Waitze   Hi, this is Michael Waitze, and welcome back to the Asia InsurTech Podcast. This is the only podcast in Asia focused on insura...

Money, fund raising and IPOs…where does it all end? We started with a conversation about FWD , the InsurTech arm of Pacific Century Group, and its planned IPO in New York. This would make it the largest Hong Kong or China-based insurance IPO in New York since 2003. This is just indicative of the amount of money that keeps flowing into the insurance innovation sector. That was only the beginning. T...

The Asia InsurTech Podcast spoke with Sarbvir Singh, the CEO of PolicyBazaar , about the future of the insurance industry in India and the power of data analytics. Find the transcript of our conversation here:  Michael Waitze   Okay, we’re on. Hi, this is Michael Waitze. And welcome back to the Asia InsurTech Podcast. This is the only podcast in Asia focused on insurance that gives entrepreneurs,...

The Asia InsurTech Podcast caught up with Manuel San Miguel, a co-founder, and the CEO of Ignatica to talk about some of the changes, both good and bad, that the insurance industry has experienced over the last 18 months. It has been almost that long since we last spoke with Manuel and the world is a very different place.  Michael Waitze   Okay, we’re on. Hi, this is Michael Waitze. And welcome ba...