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InsTech - insurance & innovation with Matthew Grant

Jamie Crystal, CEO & Co-founder: MIC Global: Simple microinsurance for everyday risks (282)

InsTech - insurance & innovation with Matthew Grant

InsTech

Entrepreneurship, Investing, Business

4.850 Ratings

🗓️ 7 January 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

In our first podcast of 2024, Jamie Crystal, CEO of MIC Global, discusses with Matthew Grant their aim to close the insurance protection gaps by offering insurance products tailored to the needs of underserved individuals, including income protection, identity theft protection, and incident coverage.  MIC uses a business-to-business-to-customer (B2B2C) model and all of its products are embedded within other platforms or services. MIC offers insurance products in various forms including embedded insurance methods, aiming to make the process simpler and more relevant to everyday life. Crystal highlights the company’s partnerships with brokers, digital platforms, and other insurance companies to distribute their coverage. The need for these products is global, Crystal insists, and not limited to specific demographics or regions. Key Talking Points Include: Understanding the concept of microinsurance The problem MIC is solving - access to affordable products The role of embedded insurance The future of MIC and the insurance industry Closing the insurance protection gap If you like what you're hearing, please leave us a review on whichever platform you use or contact Matthew Grant on LinkedIn. Visit MIC Global here. Sign up to the InsTech newsletter for a fresh view on the world every Wednesday morning. To find out more about InsTech, our membership and offerings visit www.instech.co or contact us [email protected] Continuing Professional Development - Learning Objectives InsTech is accredited by The Chartered Insurance Institute (CII). By listening to any InsTech podcast, you can claim up to 0.5 hours towards your CPD scheme. By the end of this podcast, you should be able to meet the following Learning Objectives: Explain what is the insurance protection gap and how it can be remedied Summarise how an embedded insurance product operates and how it can help consumers Identify key industries where there is an under-insurance problem and why that is the case 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 282 page of the InsTech website or email [email protected] 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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0:42.8

And in many cases, it's not their home that's damaged. It's not their business that's damaged. It's their ability to earn income. It means they can't go to work. Or if you're imagine you're a restaurant owner, you can't open your restaurant because your staff can't come into work. Or your customers can't come into your retail store and buy your products. So I think non-damaged business eruption is a critical product. What I don't like about that, and I said it's a mouthful, is like, my God, like, is an industry. Let's improve the marketing of this. No one wakes up in the morning and says they want to buy non-damaged business interruption. How about income protection? And this is why we branded our products around my income. Good morning, good evening, and happy new year.

0:45.5

Matthew Grant here.

0:46.6

And we're back over in New York this week, well, at least digitally, talking to Jamie

0:50.7

Crystal, CEO of MIC.

0:53.1

Now, if you're wondering what opportunities there are to support

0:55.9

people that are struggling to get insurance and how you can build a business on the back of it,

1:00.3

then this one's for you. So here we go. This is what we understand about MICs. MIC Global. You're a

1:07.9

full-stack embedded micro-insurance provider. You're delivering simple, relevant,

1:12.0

and affordable micro-insurance products to underserved individuals through diverse partnerships

1:18.1

with platforms and services. And we're going to talk a little bit about how you think about

1:23.0

that group, which is a slightly different about how the people typically might think about

1:26.6

microinsurance.

1:31.9

Your products are written in-house. You've got a Lloyd Syndicate and you've got a Guida-based company, MIC RE. And you have basically formed back in 2020 through the merger of STP group,

1:38.7

microinsure and Tonka BI. And Jamie, you are CEO of MIC. How's that for an elevator pitch? Perfect. Thank you,

1:47.2

Matthew. So in your own background, I see you worked as an insurer, you worked as a broker.

1:53.0

I believe you joined MISC about four years ago. I mean, what was it for you personally that

1:56.9

took you from that side of the business into the organization you're with now?

2:01.5

I feel like I've been in insurance since birth. I'm one of those people who had a dad before me and a

2:06.2

dad before him who started into the insurance industry. And one of the things that I've always been

2:12.3

frustrated about our industry is that things can kind of be taken for granted. Insurance is sold to people, in many cases,

2:19.0

people that have to buy it, as opposed to being bought by people that want to buy it. It's one of

2:23.4

the things that's been holding us back as an industry. While it's great that people, in many cases,

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