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InsTech - insurance & innovation with Matthew Grant

Future of Payments in Insurance: Mastercard and Davies Group (67)

InsTech - insurance & innovation with Matthew Grant

InsTech

Entrepreneurship, Investing, Business

4.850 Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2020

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Live highlights from the InsTech London "Future of Payments" evening at The Steelyard on 21st January 2020 hosted by Robin Merttens and Matthew Grant Mastercard's Ian Slater & Ruth Polyblank discuss:  Why Mastercard is so enthusiastic about the opportunities of working with partners in insurance  Lessons from the banks and fintech - and relevance for insurtech Why data will change perceptions of insurance How insurers can collaborate with Mastercard Followed by Laura Harvey, Strategic Director at Davies Group on the benefits of virtual credit numbers (VCN) to speed up payments to policyholders. A written summary of Ian, Ruth and Laura’s conversations is available on the podcast section of our website - https://www.instech.london/podcasts You can also download the full agenda and photos from our Past Events section - https://www.instech.london/past-events/future-of-payments-in-insurance Membership details and other enquiries: [email protected] InsTech London Podcast Host: Matthew Grant Produced by Simon Fyles: [email protected] Edited by Peter Roach: visualmonkeys.co.uk

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Insurance is an industry that we're massively excited about.

0:04.0

I've been working on this for a couple of years now.

0:08.0

And I have to say in terms of kind of virgin field, in terms of transformation,

0:12.0

in terms of the things that are happening at an industry level,

0:16.0

I've never seen an industry like it. It's global, it's fast-moving.

0:19.0

It deals with some real-life problems, which are

0:21.8

fascinating.

0:34.9

Hello, Matthew Grant here. Welcome to the Insteck London podcast and welcome to February. How are those New Year's resolutions getting on? Now, it's been a while since we brought you any of the highlights from our evening events, but we were back in the steel yard recently to talk about the role of payments in insurance. For many people, and I got to confess, I was one of them,

0:57.0

this may not at first seem the most exciting part of innovation in insurance.

1:02.0

So we did wonder how many people would come and see us on a dark January night.

1:06.0

Well, we shouldn't have worried and we were not disappointed.

1:08.0

We had over 200 people in the audience and some

1:11.5

fascinating discussions with major global corporations such as MasterCard, who are sponsors for

1:16.3

the evening, as well as a handful of very fascinating startups, some of which I'm sure we're going

1:21.0

to be hearing more from soon. In this episode, you're going to hear first from Robin Merton's chatting

1:26.4

on stage to Ian Slater,

1:28.0

senior vice president from MasterCard, followed by Laura Harvey from the Davis Group.

1:33.1

Then I'm back up on stage with Ruth Pollyblank, who is a longstanding friend of Instac,

1:37.7

London, recently joined MasterCard as vice president of insurance.

1:42.0

Now, we are thrilled to have had the support of MasterCard for this event,

1:45.5

but it is worth mentioning that it's thanks to the over 100 companies we can now count as corporate

1:50.0

members, an increasing number who are based in the US or Europe, that enables us to bring you

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