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18 Aug 2020 5 minute read 0 comments FinRev
Is the age of cross-selling doomed? We ask that question in the wake of the Wells Fargo scandal and look to fintech start-ups for answers. Also this week: the coming disruption in auto insurance, a sage’s assessment of marketplace lending, equity res...
12 May 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Abhimanyu Krishnan
On May 11, Cryptocurrency payments platform Crypto.com has announced that it has reached a deal with Ledger Vault and Lloyd’s of London underwriter Arch Insurance, securing a $100 million direct insurance policy led by the latter. This adds to the to...
5 May 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Abhimanyu Krishnan
Poland’s Link4, the nation’s leading direct insurance provider, recently announced a partnership with Krajowa Izba Rozliczeniowa (KIR), Poland’s national clearing house, and Coinfirm, a blockchain analytics and Anti-money Laundering (AML) company. Th...
19 Mar 2020 3 minute read 2 comments Highbridge.io
Part 1 “A distributed ledger (also called a shared ledger or distributed ledger technology or DLT) is a consensus of replicated, shared, and synchronized digital data geographically spread across multiple sites, countries, or institutions.[1] There i...
16 Feb 2020 3 minute read 1 comment Betasyndicate.eth
Today's Crypto Hemisphere Needs Protection and Security. These projects offer a glimpse into the possibility of a more secure world of decentralization. Imagine having a security firm embedded into Blockchain technologies or an oversight committee w...
13 Feb 2020 4 minute read 3 comments Highbridge.io
Just catching the word ‘Blockchain’ can trigger specific feelings in people. Those may vary from the ‘scam’ word, up to the ‘speculation’ and a whole way to the ‘lifesaver.’ Last year we witnessed a bumpy road for the technology with the ICO hype...
31 Jan 2020 1 minute read 1 comment Roberto D.
To protect the deposits of its traders, Bittrex announced, with a post published yesterday on its blog, that it has underwritten insurance policies for 300 million dollars in order to protect itself against the risk of theft of funds stored in cold s...
21 Jan 2020 4 minute read 1 comment BitcoinGoldStandard
Aon PLC, Marsh LLC, and Gemini to set up captive insurer Nakamoto Ltd. in Bermuda. The recent lack of insurance cover for crypto assets plays a major role in the inability of the cryptocurrency industry to receive mainstream adoption. For this reason...
8 Dec 2019 2 minute read 0 comments Roberto D.
Today we return to take care of DeFi, this time however from a more specific perspective, that of insurance companies; after all, the banks are not the only ones having to fear the rise of what many now call Web 3.0, among the companies that see thei...
7 Dec 2019 1 minute read 0 comments Second Medical Opinions PLC
Any information or statement present in this post does not replace your health care provider’s advice or treatment. This blog does not provide medical advice, prescribe medications or therapies, or diagnose conditions, it only expresses an opinion. I...
