New platform will speed innovation and new product development in APAC region
HONG KONG–(BUSINESS WIRE)–#digitaltransformation–Ignatica, DouBao and EasiTech said Friday they�re joining forces to create a new platform that will tap the full potential of the Asia-Pacific regions burgeoning insurance sector.
The three said theyll integrate the DouBao Digital Cloud, EasiTech Mobile Application and the Ignatica platform to craft a new platform and offer insurers, brokers and agents operating in APAC a full-service digital solution for client acquisitions and onboarding, new insurance product launches and ongoing product administration and management.
The agreement marries EasiTechs powerful front-end, customer-facing platform with Ignaticas cutting-edge back-office technology to speed innovation and the development and launch of new insurance products across the region. The new integrated platform will integrate with the smart and secure cloud service developed by EasiTechs parent, Chinas DouBao Networks Group.
The global insurance industry is managing trillions of dollars of financial transactions per year on operating systems and technology that havent changed significantly in the last 50 years. Tomorrows leading insurers will digitally transform how they protect their customers by using the same technological innovations that Netflix and Amazon have used to change the world or they will be replaced, said Ignatica co-founder and President Travis Callahan. Our new, integrated and highly secure platform utilizing EasiTechs Mobile Application and DouBaos Digital Cloud is a game-changer and will sharply reduce the cost and risks of bringing new products to market. Our insurers will be able to provide affordable protection to everyone on the planet – whether its protection against the next Covid-19 or purchasing auto insurance by the mile, not the year.
The World Bank estimates nearly one in four of the four billion-plus people in Asia has no access to the global financial system. While there are numerous reasons for that, costs and inadequate technology to reach them have played major roles in preventing them from opening bank accounts and purchasing insurance and investment products. New technology, such as the joint platform Ignatica and EasiTech will develop over the next 24 months, is aimed at lowering most of those barriers.
Ignatica, with its superior management team and technology, is a perfect partner to extend best-in-class product launch offerings and policy administration for our 18 million current customers in Mainland China and to drive our regional platform and to scale up the insurance business in APAC, said EasiTech CEO, Wendy Zhang. Were targeting an additional 30 million customers across APAC with over $5 billion in new gross written premiums (GWP) sales per year to be transacted through this new, joint platform over the next four years.
Under terms of the deal, EasiTech, which already manages US$3.67 billion in GWP on its existing platform from 1,241 intermediaries and insurers in Mainland China, will administer their current business through the new platform powered by Ignatica, leveraging a Center of Excellence that the two companies are establishing. Theyll also jointly market their technologies to insurers, brokers and agents across APAC to onboard all the insurance-related distribution, product management and policy administration activities onto the new platform.
Ignatica is a Hong Kong and Swiss company backed by US-based SOSV Investment Fund. Ignatica was founded in 2018 by Callahan – longtime C-suite executive and entrepreneur along with insurance industry veterans Manuel San Miguel, former Manulife CTO of APAC, and Adhish Pendharkar. Its core platform technology enables insurers to profitably provide every person on the planet the type of insurance they need, at the price they can afford, with the service and speed that todays customers expect. Ignatica has partnered with some of the worlds largest multinational and regional insurers and brokers, and together with this new partnership, will manage over 30 million insurance customers (US$ 10 billion of new annual GWP) on the Ignatica Platform.
EasiTech is the international arm of DouBao Networks Group, which operates the www.17doubao.com insurance platform. Established in 2015, DouBaos vision is making insurance services smarter through technology. Offering modular and integrated Software as a Service solutions up and down the value chain, it has grown into one of Chinas leading providers of intelligent insurance technology. DouBaos platform handles marketing, customer acquisition, customer service, claims handling, intermediary management and employee benefits solutions. EasiTech was founded in 2019 and has its current client base in Hong Kong and Southeast Asia.
Contacts
Travis Callahan
President, Ignatica
T: +852 6893 0610
travis@ignatica.io
www.ignatica.io
Wendy Zhang
CEO, EasiTech
T: +852 5804 6007
Wendy@baodunyan-inc.com
www.easitech.hk
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