FS Brew Episode

UAE Insurance Market: 2022 Roundup and 2023 Predictions. Today we have a very special episode on how 2022 has been for the insurance companies in the UAE so far and potentially what that means in terms of how we will be ending the year and setting the tone for 2023. Has 2022 been one of the worst years for the insurers? Will 2023 be any different? To answers some of the burning questions, we have with us Navin Ghorawat, who is a senior manager at Badri Consultancy. Navin, in a recent event, spok...

In FS Brew's latest HYPE episode, we deep dive into Open Insurance to understand: - What is open insurance? - Who are the suitable partners who can benefit from open insurance - International examples & use cases - Business and technology readiness to build open insurance capabilities - Product lines and sectors that make sense for the region to benefit from open insurance - Finally, the all-important regulations required to bring this concept to life! #openinsurance #fsbrew #insurance #ins...

Here's our interview with Walid Daniel Dib , Co-founder, and CEO of Hala Insurance , the OG millennial insurtech founder from the #UAE ! We spoke with Walid on many nuances and factors involved in running an agile insurance start-up brand like Hala: 🎯Hala's business model- tech seems like the starting point...surprisingly, it is not! 🔍Test & learn culture- using hypotheses versus assumptions to test & learn product fit 🤑How did they go about building their first set of customers...did the #cac s...

Here's our #newswithanalysis episode after long! 💃🏻In this episode, we've picked trending #news pieces from the #uae market exclusively, because there's just SO MUCH going on! 🎂Shory - (we had to start with this!), our review about the Shory digital experience so far, their 'socially invested' angle and more 📄Policybazaar UAE - tie-up with Adamjee Insurance UAE to provide exclusive #healthinsurance products to cater to the #Pakistani residents in the UAE and their family back home; 🏹SAL...

Here's our #FSBrewInternational interview with Andy Ann, CEO of YAS MicroInsurance based in #HongKong. Fascinating conversation and a must-watch for all #insurers aspiring to target or innovate to attract #genz and #millennials as their audiences. We spoke extensively on many aspects of a customer lifecycle and innovation including: 🔬Extensive customer research to understand the psyche of the # millennials and #genz that YAS MicroInsurance is targetting- Andy shared some insights that were fasc...

In our first episode of #FSBrewInternational , we spoke with Nicolo Robba from Lifepal . Lifepal is the no. 1 B2C #insurance #aggregator in #indonesia . Nicolo Robba is an e-commerce leader in the South East Asia region, and has held senior roles within Alibaba.com and Lazada previously before co-founding Lifepal . Listen in to Nicolo as we dig deep into what it takes to create a leading insurance brand in one of the most dynamic countries in the world and fastest-growing insurance market (expec...

We caught up with Wilson Varghese, General Manager and Head of Operations, Zurich Middle East, part of Zurich Insurance Group. Wilson spoke in length about the Customer Benefits report recently released by Zurich Middle East and the relevance of this report in order to raise awareness about #lifeinsurance and #BeBetterPrepared. We also spoke about the incredible changes within the health insurance space, the various #trends like #wearables and #tech that are shaping the industry and how an inc...

Check out our interview with wellx.ai founders, Vaibhav Kashyap and Javed Akberali ! wellx.ai is the newest #healthinsurance brand in the UAE, rewarding its customers for leading a #healthylifestyle . We spoke in length about: 🧩 wellx.ai 's business model- its core components, the rewards system, and the business case behind it 🧑🏼‍🤝‍🧑🏿Customer acquisition process- how they acquired their first set of customers, what is working, and their renewed distribution strategy 🐾 Exciting partnerships they...

Lars Gehrmann is the Group Chief Digital Officer of Qatar Insurance Group and Head of QIC Digital Venture Partners, a new digital organization with an aim to build and invest in digital ventures, the InsurTech ecosystem, and international partnerships while transforming the way Qatar Insurance Group operates digitally. Lars and the team have injected renewed energy into the region's insurance ecosystem with MENA's 1st Insurtech Hackathon, where the top 6 finalists will pitch in the grand finale ...

🧩 Importance of breaking down the giant digital transformation plan into smaller, 3-month goals 📚Advice to Chief Digital Officers- keep educating your board; use metrics like customer effort score (CES) to articulate the impact 👩🏻‍⚕️Is there a solid business case for reward-based health insurance here in the UAE? Instead of annual rewards, will monthly or even weekly rewards work better? 🔐 Building cloud capability and two-speed IT 🚀Creating a modular architect to create #embeddedinsurance products that can work even in the #metaverse 🧪How to get the chemistry right between incumbent insurers and #insurtech

16: Power of Data in Micro-insurance and beyond- Tanja Magas, Democrance

Here's the much-awaited interview with LAVANYA MUNDAYUR, COO of The New India Assurance Co. Ltd., Dubai. We spoke in length about various nuances within the #UAE and #India's insurance landscape and much more: 🔭 The New India Assurance Co. Ltd.'s storied history and its purpose of setting up an overseas branch in many countries including here, in the UAE 🎯Commonalities and differences between the 2 markets and the impact of CEPA specifically for NIA 🇮🇳 India, despite its insurance maturity ...

Here's the much-awaited podcast with our guest, Hatim Maskawala, Managing Director, Badri Management Consultancy. Hatim spoke with us candidly on many pressing topics that need #insurance industry's attention: 🚖 Motor portfolio running at 'below burn' rates- the knock-on effect of discounting heavily beyond the COVID lockdown period 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Consolidation and M&A opportunities in the region 🎯 Demystifying IFRS17 and going beyond the 'jargon' intimidation 🔭 Focussing on commercial lines a...

Excited to share FS Brew's special interview with Neeraj Gupta, CEO of Policybazaar UAE.ae! Neeraj gave us many insights about PolicyBazaar and its DNA, which continues to shape the way they work. We spoke in-depth about: 🌍 why PolicyBazaar chose UAE as their first overseas market to enter 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 how they don't consider themselves as an aggregator but a customer experience provider🎯 PolicyBazaar's marketing mantra (great piece of info on how acquisition costs work for insurance!) 🔭 T...

A New Year and a new format- we are happy to bring you short pod bites with items of note, and leave it to you to decide if they are "Hype or not?". In this first episode of the year we cover: Tiktok for insurance.--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/fsbrew/message