Union Budget 2025: Government proposes 100% FDI in insurance sectorAccording to industry insiders, this move can help spawn new insurance companies and bolster existing insurance firms. Insurance distributi...
01 Feb, 2025, 02.46 PM IST
Insurtech sector attracted $2.5 bn funding, more investment to flow: ReportThe Indian insurtech sector has raised over USD 2.5 billion and is expected to attract more investment due to significant growth opportunit...
20 Nov, 2024, 09.48 PM IST
InsurTech firm ACKO drives into car repair and service spaceACKO, the Bengaluru-based insurtech firm, is expanding into car servicing and repair with its ACKO Drive Service Centres, targeting cars ou...
26 Jun, 2024, 12.15 PM IST
With Irdai opening doors, insurtech firms look to transform into general insurersInsurtech firms such as Bengaluru-based Onsurity and Pune-based Loop Health help employers offer group health policies to their employees a...
22 Jan, 2024, 06.00 AM IST
Insurtech startups make hay as embedded insurance gets the spotlightFrom banks that want to cross-sell insurance products to ecommerce companies offering to insure large-ticket purchases to travel aggregator...
19 Jan, 2024, 08.52 AM IST
Irdai on a transformational journey to take insurance to massesUnder new chairman Debasish Panda, the regulator is engaging with the industry more than ever and looking to get the sector charged up.
11 Aug, 2023, 06.00 AM IST
IRDAI considering Managed General Agencies in insuranceInsurtech startups which mostly operate as insurance intermediaries are pushing for a new set of licences from the IRDAI to set up agencies...
10 Aug, 2023, 10.37 PM IST
Credit a better bet for fintechs eyeing expansion: PBFintech's Yashish DahiyaWhile admitting that there is a viable business to be set up in digitising the physical agent network, Dahiya said there is definitely a bu...
28 Jul, 2023, 06.00 AM IST
RenewBuy appoints Nishant Mehta as chief business officerIn his new role, Mehta will be responsible for driving new growth avenues for the firm's insurtech business model. He will chart the growth...
07 Jul, 2022, 03.54 PM IST
Pazcare appoints ICICI Lombard's Chetan Paliwal as VP of insurance productsPaliwal will be working closely with the product team to scale up and expand the insurance line of products.
15 Mar, 2022, 11.10 AM IST
National Insurance Academy collaborates with GIFT City to strengthen insurance verticalThis collaboration will facilitate capacity building in insurance and risk management space for participants in GIFT City, according to a s...
30 Sep, 2021, 05.17 PM IST
PhonePe gets IRDAI nod to sell life, general insurancePhonePe has been issued an insurance broking licence from the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (IRDAI), it said in a...
30 Aug, 2021, 08.41 PM IST
India is second largest insurtech market in Asia Pacific, S&P Global saysIndia and China, collectively home to nearly half of insurtech startups in the Asia Pacific, will continue to corner the lion's share of ve...
18 May, 2021, 03.15 PM IST
KFin Technologies acquires 17% stake in insurtech startup Artivatic.aiThe stake purchase in Artivatic.ai will mark KFin Technologies’ foray into India’s insurtech space as the General Atlantic-backed fintech f...
11 May, 2021, 07.37 PM IST
Payments business leads fintech deals in IndiaPayments companies were the most lucrative funding choices as capital into these more than tripled to $2.1 billion from about $660 million ...
04 Mar, 2020, 08.06 AM IST
Insurers want 100% stake in insurtech startupsCompanies discover potential of new technologies to disrupt the sector and seek control.
09 May, 2019, 08.17 AM IST
India to see regulations for fintech space soon: KPMG reportWith payments and lending remaining priority areas, fintech interest grew in India during January-March quarter of 2017, global consulting ...
02 May, 2017, 09.18 PM IST