Predictions for Insurance in 2022 (172)

InsTech - insurance & innovation with Matthew Grant

InsTech

Entrepreneurship, Investing, Business

4.8 • 50 Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

What can the insurance industry expect in 2022? We’ve gathered a panel of 16 innovation experts to give us their predictions for the year ahead. Podcast 172, sponsored by Fadata, covers topics, themes and opportunities including the insurtech investment scene (valuations and opportunities), increase in mergers & acquisitions activity, ESG and climate change, operational excellence, talent war, cryptocurrency and the Metaverse. Our panel of innovation experts includes: Matthew Jones, Managing Director, Anthemis Charles Burgess, CEO International Distribution, Munich Re Specialty Group Premal Gohil, Head of Innovation Partnerships & Investments, GRS, Liberty Mutual Insurance Sasa Brcerevic, Global Head of MGA Strategies, Aon Ruta Mikiskaite, Head of Client Solutions UK and Ireland, Swiss Re Jenny Williams, Portfolio Optimisation Director, Convex Joan Cuscó, Global Head of Transformation, MAPFRE Paolo Cuomo, Director of Operations, Brit Insurance Liselotte Munk, CEO, Fadata Keith Aylwin, Director, Alpha FMC Daniel Prince, CEO, Rethink Underwriting Adam Kemmis Betty, UK & Ireland Digital Leader, Marsh Francois Forge, Head of Strategic Innovation, Wakam Mark Allan, General Manager for Business and Specialist Products, Bupa Debbie Smith, Chief Medical Officer, EMEA, Swiss Re Dr Ali Hasan, Chief Medical and Healthcare Officer, Vitality Listen to Episode 171 to hear InsTech London Partners Robin Merttens and Matthew Grant reflect on 2021 and share their own predictions for 2022. 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 our newsletter for a fresh view on the world every Wednesday morning. Continuing Professional Development - Learning Objectives InsTech London is accredited by The Chartered Insurance Institute (CII). By listening to any InsTech London 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: Summarise predictions for the year ahead from industry experts Describe where insurtech funding may be going in 2022 Explain some of the roles the identified key themes will play in the market If your organisation is a member of InsTech London and you would like to receive a quarterly summary of the CPD hours you have earned, visit the Episode 172 page of the InsTech London 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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0:00.0	Welcome back or if you've just discovered us, welcome for the first time. Now, I'm sure you've
0:17.3	already come across many of the predictions people are making for 2022.
0:21.6	Maybe you've even released some of your own.
0:24.3	Well, Robin and I see a lot, and you can get a flavour of what we're thinking from last week's episode.
0:29.8	But for today, we are following up on the success of our compilation of predictions that we made last year,
0:35.0	and again, sourcing views directly from the people we know
0:38.1	at the sharp end of what they see coming in the next 12 months. Robin has been out and about,
0:43.1	or at least in the virtual sense, talking to some of the people in our network and no surprise
0:46.8	that he's found some juicy bits that will be taking you through in a few minutes.
0:51.0	Well, it's quite a bit of work to pull these things together, so our thanks to Fadata for sponsoring this predictions episode. Fadata has been providing software for the insurance
0:58.3	market for over 30 years. Its insurance processing platform insists, that's I-N-S-I-S,
1:05.3	spans a full insurance life cycle for life, non-life and health insurance. For more details,
1:10.5	go to www.fdata.org.
1:14.2	The link will be in the episode notes. Okay, sit tight. Here we go.
1:25.6	Let's start with a few predictions about the general state of insuretech funding, and in particular
1:30.7	predictions about valuations and the availability of money in 2022.
1:35.4	We're better to start than to talk to a leading insured tech venture investor.
1:39.6	Here's Matthew Jones.
1:40.8	He's a managing director at Anthemus, which is a venture firm which focuses on financial
1:45.0	services and probably the most active in the insurance innovation sector. Without a doubt,
1:51.4	2021 has been a very buoyant year, which is a surprise considering we enter January, not really
1:59.0	knowing what the year would hold.
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