QuanTemplate – reducing friction & democratizing data for the reinsurers
By Rick Huckstep Reinsurance is a fascinating world with its unfathomable jargon, highly complex trading arrangements and a heritage going ...
Tag: Fintech 1000
Metromile & Telematics – it’s car insurance, but not as we know it!
By Rick Huckstep Insurance telematics are fundamentally changing the driver’s attitude to risk. This new generation of InsuranceTech businesses are ...
Market disruption comes from the establishment as well as the startup
By Rick Huckstep Last week, I wrote about Silicon Valley tech startup Zenefits and how their free-to-use HR software platform ...
Zenefits, Free-to-Use HR Software That’s Upsetting the Health Insurance Brokers
By Rick Huckstep About a week ago, as I was going through my daily routine of catching up on news ...
Moneymeets – how intermediaries are restoring trust in financial services
By Rick Huckstep In the annual Edelman Trust Barometer 2014 survey conducted across 27 countries and more than 33,000 respondents, ...
Fintech 1,000: B2C Payments will be be 10x cheaper but volumes will increase 10x
The Fintech revolution is Moore’s Law finally impacting Banking, Finance, Securities and Insurance (BFSI). If the cost of a payment ...
SMB Financing is a window of opportunity ‘big enough to drive a truck through’
The last market opportunity “big enough to drive a truck through” that I witnessed was the difference between time spent ...
Fintech 1,000 Shows Few InsuranceTech Startups – For Now
InsuranceTech is not as developed as other parts of the Fintech market. It feels more like Fintech around 2011, when ...
This Quiet Public Fintech Co. Is Valued 2x More Than Lending Club
Fiserv is one of those quiet success stories that is common to B2B ventures that dominate niche markets; they don’t ...
Fintech 1000: Lending Marketplace Ecosystem
A financial marketplace, like a social networking site, tends towards monopoly or oligopoly due to network effects. A few years ...
