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Preventive Insurance: Niramai, AliveCor and InSensus win BNP Paribas Cardif Open-F@b Call4ideas 2017

High technology content, conveyed creativity and the ability to decline Preventive Insurance in concrete and accessible solutions made the difference in deciding the winners of the international contest promoted by BNP Paribas Cardif, which came to the fourth edition
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Business

Smart contracts, everything you need and want for insurance

Smart Contracts are no doubt one of blockchain's most interesting insurance applications, where the first pilot projects have already started. Here's what exactly is meant by smart contracts and the reasons why policies are so future-proof.
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Startup

Lloyd's of London: bets on insurtech and opens its Lab

Even the long-standing corporation has decided to open its own innovation centre to discover and support start-ups, which can offer advantages to the insurance industry. Lloyd's, The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) and innovation specialist L Marks are working closely together

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Business

GDPR, impact on insurance and insurtech

The GDPR covers insurance and insurtech in two ways: business and compliance. As data controller, the GDPR requires a great effort on the part of the companies, but on the other hand the regulation is proving to be an incredible boost on cyber risk policies

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Startup

Insurtech, here are 12 companies to bet on

A report by Mind the Bridge and Deloitte has identified them as strongly growing companies standing out among the 106 European scaleups that directly or indirectly have been affecting the insurance sector. 10 are Italians

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Startup

All the aspects (and startups) of the sharing economy

P2P Lending, Pseudo-Sharing, Gig Economy, Professional Services, Pooling Economy: All of these are versions of the sharing economy proposed by the Startup Intelligence Osservatorio of Politecnico di Milano. Here are features and startups of each cluster

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Scenarios

Who's afraid of smart home?

51% of Italians, according to data from the Internet Of Things Osservatorio of the School of Management of Politecnico di Milano. What is the reason for this concern? Privacy and data management. The smart home device boom will have to overcome this obstacle, but GDPRs and insurances can help.

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Scenarios

Social impact: all the dedicated Italian incubators

In the socially-impact business sector, incubators play a very important role in supporting start-ups, including in raising capital. Italy has lots of them, yet demand is not met. What are the Italian social incubators? Here you are our choice

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Business

Not just Millennials: the over-65s as the brand-new target for financial services

So much energy and a smartphone in the hands. A survey carried out in Italy by BNP Paribas Cardif reveals an unhoped-for insight for “S-generation” (those considered senior): digital, dynamic, independent; a true pillar of families. Calling for new financial services

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Scenarios

Artificial Intelligence and machine learning: 4.0 impact on insurance companies

80% of executives believe that AI will revolutionize the way companies will proceed to acquire information from their customers. Over half of the companies surveyed said that the biggest advantage will be to exploit better data to have a better understanding of customers

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Business

Transport As a Service? Hey companies… get ready to reshape the offer!

From car sharing to fleet rental, from electric motors to driverless cars, the future of transport will be a harbinger of great changes. And insurance companies will adapt, reshaping policies and services

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Scenarios

Mini “how to” on the driverless car: when it will arrive, how it will be, who will produce it

According to analysts it will take no more than 5 years to normalize the driverless car. Here is a mini “how to” that summarizes the current status and the future of this real turning-point of mobility

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Business

Customer experience, the future is in the chatbot

Juniper Research says that through the use of conversations via chatbot companies will save up to $ 8 billion by 2020. The financial services sector is among those that will benefit the most, thanks to startups

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Opinions

Sharing economy according to Rachel Botsman, now it's time for distributed trust

The world's leading expert in collaboration and sharing economy, speaker at the 2017 edition of the World Business Forum in Milan, believes that at the basis of the sharing economy there is confidence, a disseminated and unstoppable "trust" enabled by online platforms

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