Maarten Bakker

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Incumbent insurers and banks still seem in no rush to strengthen their currently weaker position to capture the value from Open Insurance.

The logical next step for bancassurance is to play a role within new digital ecosystems based on open APIs.

Insurers must allow third parties to access their data and products and be present – and relevant – in customers’ digital ecosystems.

While autonomous cars have made real progress lately, there's no reason to pay any attention to Musk's tease for a robotaxi announcement in August.

With climate change increasing risk, GIS allows for accurate risk assessment that goes even deeper than ZIP code level.

Michael Reilly, a managing director at Accenture, says underwriters only actually underwrite for 30% of their day -- but can soon get to 60%.

Businesses need to protect their people and property with continuity planning, increased security and, perhaps, relocation of inventory.

AI not only encourages safer driving but also provides a route to transparent and accurate risk assessment, for fairer underwriting. 

The use of generative AI for coding for in-house applications is set to be the next big thing in 2024.

The transformation of RGA's data and analytics operations offers a potential blueprint.