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InsTech - insurance & innovation with Matthew Grant & Robin Merttens

Frank Perkins: Founder and CEO, Inari: The technology driving connection and collaboration (209)

InsTech - insurance & innovation with Matthew Grant & Robin Merttens

InsTech

Business, Entrepreneurship, Investing

4.951 Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2022

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Inari delivers core technology platforms that provide cloud-based end-to-end management for insurers and reinsurers. Since launching 5 years ago, Inari has helped its clients increase operational efficiency, business flexibility and provide data governance. Inari uses Distributed Ledger technology within its platforms to record every event in the life cycle of a risk. Frank Perkins, Founder and CEO of Inari, joined Robin Merttens to talk about: The benefits of interconnected systems The immutability of data and how it applies to distributed ledger technology Frank’s experiences of scaling up Inari Plans for partnerships and funding Frank’s experience as a professional gamer and how it makes him a better entrepreneur More InsTech content featuring Inari is available on the company’s member profile page.  If you like what you're hearing, please leave us a review on whichever platform you use or contact Matthew Grant on LinkedIn. Sign up to the InsTech newsletter for a fresh view on the world every Wednesday morning. Continuing Professional Development - Learning Objectives InsTech is accredited by The Chartered Insurance Institute (CII). By listening to any InsTech podcast or reading the accompanying transcript, you can claim up to 0.5 hours towards the CII member CPD scheme. The Learning Objectives for this podcast are: Describe what distributed ledger technology entails, and the benefits of incorporating it within insurance platforms List some of the advantages of implementing interconnected systems for organisational practices Summarise the key factors organisations in the insurance industry need to consider when looking to scale up If your organisation is a member of InsTech and you would like to receive a quarterly summary of the CPD hours you have earned, visit the Episode 209 page of the InsTech website or email cpd@instech.co to let us know you have listened to this podcast. To help us measure the impact of the learning, we would be grateful if you would take a minute to complete a quick feedback survey.

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome wherever you are in the world and whatever you are doing, Matthew Grant here, but not for long. You're getting a break for me this week and Robin Mertens is your host for this episode talking to Frank

0:21.3

Perkin's CEO and founder of Inari. Now, we've been watching Anari closely since they entered

0:26.9

the Lloyd's Lab back in 2020 and I interviewed Frank then for episode 85. For this episode, Robin finds out

0:34.0

what Anari has been up to in the last two years building out its technology,

0:43.6

providing greater connectivity and usability for insurers. Now, we're delighted to have Inari as one of our 170 corporate members. And if you work for an insurance company and you don't

0:48.5

already know about us, but want to understand the themes and innovation in technology,

0:53.4

analytics and data being used by leading

0:55.3

insurers today, then please get in touch. Or you may already be one of the 50 insurers, brokers

1:00.3

and MGAs we are working with today. You can find out from the member section on the website

1:05.0

www.instech.com. Or if you are building solutions around data and analytics and want to share what you're doing

1:12.5

with insurers around the world then you may also be interested in our corporate membership

1:16.6

contact me for any of the above matthew grant or any of us by email hello at instec dot co or via

1:23.3

linkedin and finally it's you as our listener that really makes this all worthwhile, and it's

1:28.6

always a delight when people tell us they found the podcast useful. So if you get the chance,

1:33.9

please do let us know what you think by LinkedIn or email is fine. And of course, share us with

1:39.5

others. Okay, that's enough for me. Over to Robin and Frank.

1:57.0

Hello, Frank. Thanks for joining us. Welcome to the Instate podcast. I can see you're in Barcelona today.

1:58.5

What's the weather like down there now?

2:01.7

Miserable with lots of really wild thunderstorms.

2:08.9

And now we've gone back to our regular programming of clear blue skies, sunshine and a little bit above average temperature. You're co-founded Inari back in 2017. I'm going to give you my

2:15.2

description of Inari for you to critique.

2:19.3

But it provides a modern core technology infrastructure for insurers, reinsurers,

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