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INSURANCE COMPANIES ARE IN THE ‘PEAK OF INFLATED EXPECTATIONS’ PHASE REFERRING TO GARTNER HYPE CLASSIFICATION. THEIR ENTRY APPROACH RANGES FROM INTERNAL INITIATIVES DEVOTED TO TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT TO BROADER INITIATIVES INVOLVING EXTERNAL PLAYERS SUCH AS COMPANIES OR STARTUPS.

Means of entry for insurance companies

Consortium

Joining a insurance consortium (B3i) or cross-sector consortium (Hyperledger project) with the aim of defining a de facto, interoperable standard with members of the consortium.

Venture capital for Start-ups

Investment in start-ups active in the blockchain field, either through venture capital subsidary companies or directly, with the aim of gaining expertise and/or consolidating a technological partnership.

Partnership

Launch of a partnership with companies in the blockchain field (such as Ripple), to speed up knowledge acquisition and launch collaborative experiments.

Internal development

Establishment of research labs/working groups for developing proprietary solutions in the blockchain field, such as money transfer platforms or private ledgers.

Blockchain Applications

P2P Insurance

Blockchain platforms could act as a shared layer enabling mutual insurance products and services for a group of distributed customers.

Instant policies

Smart contract technologies and oracles integration leverage instant – or on-the-spot – insurance products, which are to be handled with decentralized and certified mechanisms.

Information workflow management

Blockchain trust layer suits to empower information sharing between different actors in trustless environments. Integrated tool allows for distributed storage, versioning and ownership tracking on data and documents.

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    That's mineShared ledger certifying data and information ownership

    Property: a Blockchain accelerator manages the change of property ownership, in other words the transfer of ownership of any digital or physical asset (e.g. vehicles, equity, houses, etc.). Through the registration of a transaction in the Blockchain register, the identity of the seller and the buyer, the unique identifier of the asset and the time stamp associated with the transaction are guaranteed and cannot be modified.

  • InsurechainDecentralized and automatic lifecycle management of instant policies empowered with oracle communication

    Insurances: over the years, complexity and costs related to the management of insurance processes have undermined the profitability of companies and inhibited the distribution of innovative insurance products. Insurechain is a solution that facilitates the automation of premium calculations, the management of appraisals and the settlement of certain types of claims, ensuring end-user transparency.

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