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June 16, 2023 This is custom heading element Australia, 15 June 2023 – For the first time, HCF Life has collaborated with UnderwriteMe to leverage technology, data and analytics to launch Life Protect Insurance, which provides customers with personalised solutions that consider their respective circumstances such as lifestyle, medical and family history. Life Protect Insurance is available for purchase online ... Read More
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May 31, 2023 This is custom heading element This Month, UnderwriteMe was delighted to attend the UK Company culture awards in Marble Arch, London. The evening turned out to be a successful one as UnderwriteMe won a UK COMPANY CULTURE AWARD (Silver) for Best Flexible Working Policy. Our submission focused on our agile working practices, hybrid working, our quarterly update on-site days and ... Read More
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May 26, 2023 This is custom heading element Earlier this month, as part of our Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) work, on the 15th of May, a group of colleagues from across different departments took part in a volunteer day ran by Thames21. The day consisted of helping with river management by clearing areas of the waterways through cutting back ... Read More
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May 17, 2023 This is custom heading element In case you missed it, we are now living in a hyper-digitalised society where people of all generations are embracing technology, and where customers demand hyper-personalised and experience-led services from the businesses they engage with, and are willing to change their shopping behaviour to get it (World Insurance Report, 2020). This paradigm ... Read More
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January 23, 2023 This is custom heading element As part of a continued transition to Hybrid working, UnderwriteMe recently raised funds from an office equipment sale (the funds were donated to a couple of charities). UnderwriteMe also looked at how best to use computers that were no longer needed in the business This update shines a light on Computers 4 ... Read More
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December 15, 2022 This is custom heading element Market-First Underwriting Innovation Launched By UnderwriteMe and Zurich Australia, 12 December 2022 – UnderwriteMe, in collaboration with Zurich Australia Limited (Zurich), has launched a digital underwriting innovation that enables medical screening requests to be sent and received electronically via a health screening provider, United Healthcare Group (UHG). Once screening is ... Read More
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November 24, 2022 This is custom heading element As part of a continued transition to Hybrid working, UnderwriteMe recently raised funds from an office equipment sale. The Sale’s proceeds were then considered for dontation to a few different causes. Our first donation shines a light on the Trussell Trust, who they are and how individuals and other businesses can support ... Read More
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July 4, 2022 This is custom heading element ESG Volunteer Day: Hammersmith City Gardens Association Earlier this year, as part of our Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) work, on the 23rd of March, a group of UnderwriteMe’s employees took part in a local volunteer day at Hammersmith City Gardens Association as part of the way UnderwriteMe supports employee volunteering across ... Read More
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April 26, 2022 This is custom heading element NTUC Income Enhances Customer and Advisor Experience with UnderwriteMe’s Automated Underwriting Technology Singapore, 25th April 2022 – UnderwriteMe, in partnership with NTUC Income (Income), has launched a fully flexible, mobile and secure underwriting engine for IncomeShield insurance applications. UnderwriteMe’s technology is set to transform the customer experience in IncomeShield policy applications ... Read More
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April 7, 2022 This is custom heading element UnderwriteMe congratulates NEOS for being awarded Celent Model Insurer for Digital and Emerging Technologies 2022! This was made possible through the collaborative approach between the teams at UnderwriteMe and NEOS who worked very hard to leverage technology to streamline underwriting processes and deliver better customer and adviser experience. "I am thrilled that ... Read More
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February 21, 2022 This is custom heading element Text mining is a new concept which will speed up the process of buying protection. Customers will notice a better experience, particularly at the underwriting stage of their policy. Advisers will welcome the increased speed and accuracy it brings but also how it will make it easier to secure cover for clients ... Read More
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July 19, 2021 This is custom heading element Lindsay Stark and Mark Segreto spoke recently about Claims automation in Pacific Life Re (PLRe) Australia’s monthly podcast. Here are their reflections: Like many sports fans or fans of anything, we tend to adopt a team or allegiance from an early age and then support them for the rest of our days. ... Read More
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June 28, 2021 This is custom heading element The question was discussed live at InsureTech Connect Asia last week with Paul Hughes, Head of Asia Pacific, and senior experts from Euler Hermes, my-insurer, and ServiceNow. You can watch the full panel discussion by pressing below on the video below. Latest posts The Role of Predictive Models in the Future of ... Read More
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May 11, 2021 This is custom heading element Our UnderwriteMe Singapore team recently had the opportunity to give back to the local community and volunteer as smartphone trainers with the community focussed charity, TOUCH Community Services (TCS). TCS are bridging the digital divide and working to empower senior residents with the information they need to use their smartphone and essential applications. This is especially important as COVID-19 has ... Read More
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April 29, 2021 This is custom heading element 2020 was a year of learning for all of us. COVID-19, Furlough, banana bread and how to wear face masks all adding to the “things that I learned from 2020” list. Beyond that, many people used the time back from the commute to re-engage with a fitness regime or tried to pick ... Read More
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April 14, 2021 This is custom heading element I read the other day that among the most common feelings of worry about starting a new job is whether you will build strong office relationships with colleagues quickly enough to build trust. You’ll have to ask my team as to whether I’ve been successful in that, but I was certainly not ... Read More
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December 3, 2020 This is custom heading element UnderwriteMe has announced that Paul Hughes has joined as head of Asia-Pacific. It is a new role created within the business to lead the UnderwriteMe teams in Asia and Australia across all functions, including designing and implementing a strategy for the Asia-Pacific region designed to deliver significant growth over the coming years. ... Read More
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September 8, 2020 This is custom heading element Singapore, 7th September 2020 – FWD Singapore (FWD) has recently widened the use of UnderwriteMe’s proprietary underwriting rules engine (URE) to support instant underwriting of applications for its recently-launched financial advisory (FA) distribution channel, through the FWD SMART platform. Amidst the current backdrop of a global COVID-19 pandemic where Singaporeans who need ... Read More
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July 30, 2020 This is custom heading element UnderwriteMe is delighted to confirm that Ian McLean has been promoted to Chief Product and Technology Officer and will join the board for UnderwriteMe and UnderwriteMe Technology Solutions. This follows Julie Evans’ recent move to a wider brief within the Pacific Life Re division as Chief Information Officer. Julie will remain involved ... Read More
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July 20, 2020 This is custom heading element UnderwriteMe and Aviva Life and Pensions Ireland (Aviva) have announced that the life insurer will use UnderwriteMe’s Underwriting Rules Engine (URE) across all its Irish business in 2020. The URE provides Aviva underwriters complete hands-on control of their customers’ protection journey by giving them the ability to change questions, update the ‘help ... Read More
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June 9, 2020 This is custom heading element Risks can evolve quickly. The COVID-19 pandemic continues to be a serious and dynamic risk management challenge. One needing real time insights and swift, frequent reactions. Pacific Life Re and UnderwriteMe are proud that our valued Underwriting Rules Engine (URE) clients have, within minutes, updated and deployed changes to their risk management ... Read More
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April 16, 2020 This is custom heading element Auxilium Partnership, the Protection Club headed up by Mark Graves, is to use the capabilities of the Protection Platform from UnderwriteMe as part of their crusade to increase protection business across the industry. The key benefits of the Proteciton Platform are to allow advisers to sell multiple products from multiple insurers in ... Read More
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March 26, 2020 This is custom heading element FWD Life Insurance Philippines (“FWD Philippines”) recently adopted a digital solution which aims to improve the life insurer’s agent and advisory experience. This solution is the first of its kind in the Philippines, and was built on the Underwriting Rules Engine (“URE”) powered by UnderwriteMe, Pacific Life Re’s fully-owned subsidiary. It is ... Read More
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February 14, 2020 This is custom heading element UnderwriteMe was set up to transform how protection is sold and is now the largest supplier of Underwriting Rules Engines in the UK & Ireland and Australia and is now rapidly growing in Asia. In the UK, the Protection Platform provides intermediaries with a unique single process to compare multiple insurer underwritten ... Read More
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January 28, 2020 This is custom heading element HSBC Life (UK) Ltd has launched UnderwriteMe’s Underwriting Rules Engine (URE) to support its growth plans in the advised protection market. Working with HSBC Life and OPAL, this implementation has taken just over three months from project implementation to go live. HSBC Life is already a partner on the Protection Platform and ... Read More
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January 15, 2020 This is custom heading element UnderwriteMe’s Protection Platform has continued its growth in 2019, with a record number of fully underwritten comparison terms generated and also in the number of brokers joining the service. The Protection Platform has generated 600,000 fully underwritten comparisons, of which more than 68% secured “buy now” terms from two or more insurers. ... Read More
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October 18, 2019 This is custom heading element FWD Takaful Berhad (formerly known as HSBC Amanah Takaful (Malaysia) Berhad) (“FWD Takaful”) has recently launched a new and revolutionary digital platform that provides customers with immediate Takaful protection and coverage online. This represents the first phase of FWD Takaful’s customer-led digitalisation model and offers FWD Protect Direct, Malaysia’s first Takaful protection ... Read More
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August 14, 2019 This is custom heading element UnderwriteMe’s Protection Platform smashed through the 100,000 policy milestone in July, already exceeding the whole of the business sold in 2018. This phenomenal growth demonstrates how popular the platform is becoming. UnderwriteMe expects this figure to rapidly increase, as more intermediaries discover the benefits the single process “underwrite, compare and buy” service ... Read More
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July 29, 2019 This is custom heading element FWD Singapore (“FWD”) has adopted a new solution that enhances the digital insurer’s real-time risk assessment on policy applications and delivers improved underwriting decisions for their customers. This new digital solution, which is built on the Underwriting Rules Engine (URE), is powered by UnderwriteMe, Pacific Life Re’s fully-owned subsidiary. It incorporates Pacific ... Read More
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July 15, 2019 This is custom heading element Life insurers in Australia are facing persistent scrutiny amidst a challenging and competitive environment. Despite this environment, MLC Life Insurance has successfully made the process of purchasing life insurance easier and faster for its customers, having halved the time it takes to assess and admit a customer’s life insurance application. MLC Life ... Read More
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June 10, 2019 This is custom heading element New Leaf, the Independent Financial Adviser (IFA) network, has given its entire 110 member firms free access to UnderwriteMe’s Protection Platform. Launching to the network during June 2019, the partnership means that New Leaf’s appointed representatives will be able to use a single question set to compare underwritten Life, Critical Illness and ... Read More
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March 13, 2019 This is custom heading element Pacific Life Re and UnderwriteMe have partnered with Scottish Widows to smooth the protection insurance sales process for Lloyds Banking Group’s (LBG) 1,200 mortgage advisers working within the Halifax, Lloyds Bank and Bank of Scotland branches. ‘Plan and Protect’, LBG’s new life and critical illness product range was developed through a collaboration ... Read More
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February 4, 2019 This is custom heading element Insurance technology specialist, UnderwriteMe, announced today that it will be partnering with New Ireland Assurance to transform the insurer’s application process. UnderwriteMe’s Underwriting Rules Engine (URE) simplifies the buying and selling process and New Ireland Assurance will use the engine to streamline processes and significantly increase straight-through acceptance rates. The URE has ... Read More
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January 15, 2019 This is custom heading element Pacific Life Re has partnered with Prudential Singapore to launch a new digital solution which offers their customers instant underwriting decisions at point of sale. The underwriting technology is powered by Pacific Life Re’s fully-owned subsidiary, UnderwriteMe. Andrew Gill, Managing Director of Asia & Australia, Pacific Life Re, commented, “The launch of Prudential’s digital ... Read More
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December 18, 2018 This is custom heading element Pacific Life Re’s Claims Rule Engine (CRE), powered by UnderwriteMe’s industry-leading technology, has been launched in the Australian market, to transform claims management for insurers, superannuation funds, and distributors. The move follows the successful introduction of UnderwriteMe’s Underwriting Rules Engine (URE) last year. CRE was designed to fully automate initial and ongoing ... Read More
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December 17, 2018 This is custom heading element Pacific Life Re first launched UnderwriteMe’s Underwriting Rules Engine (URE) to the Australian market in 2017. Now, at the end of 2018, the innovative platform has been implemented by five Australian insurers and one New Zealand insurer. Using the same industry-leading technology, Pacific Life Re has dedicated many person-years of claims and ... Read More
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December 13, 2018 This is custom heading element Pacific Life Re first launched UnderwriteMe’s Underwriting Rules Engine (URE) to the Australian market in 2017. Now, at the end of 2018, the innovative platform has been implemented by five Australian insurers and one New Zealand insurer. Using the same industry leading technology, Pacific Life Re has dedicated many person-years of claims ... Read More
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December 10, 2018 This is custom heading element Vaping, genetic testing and wearable tech are the lifestyle changes expected to have the biggest impact on the underwriting of future protection insurance, according to a recent poll of insurers. Automated underwriting platform UnderwriteMe had polled 13 insurance and reinsurance providers at its Underwriters Forum in November and found most were bracing ... Read More
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December 10, 2018 This is custom heading element A survey taken at the recent UnderwriteMe Underwriters Forum, which brought together representatives from 13 insurance and reinsurance companies, found that vaping, genetic testing and wearable tech will influence protection underwriting more so than any other evolving lifestyle change. London & Country (L&C) were also at the event to share views on ... Read More
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December 10, 2018 This is custom heading element Vaping, genetic testing and wearable tech are the lifestyle changes that will have the biggest impact on underwriting protection insurance in the future, according to a recent UnderwriteMe Underwriters Forum survey. The Forum, held in November 2018, brought together representatives from 13 insurance and reinsurance companies to discuss how the protection underwriting ... Read More
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December 3, 2018 This is custom heading element UnderwriteMe’s Underwriting Rules Engine (URE), powered by Pacific Life Re, has launched to the New Zealand market. Cigna Life Insurance is the first New Zealand based insurer to adopt the market-leading technology, to help deliver higher straight-through acceptance rates for their customers and simplify the sales journey for advisors. UnderwriteMe’s expansion into ... Read More
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November 15, 2018 This is custom heading element The 2014 Fidelity Advisor Insights study (updated in 2016 ) suggested that advisers who embraced technology were significantly more successful than their more traditional competitors. On average, these “e-advisers” had 40% more funds under management and 74% of those surveyed believed their use of technology had helped them grow their business. Fidelity ... Read More
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November 15, 2018 This is custom heading element Following a trial of UnderwriteMe’s Protection Platform, London and Country (L&C) has this month trained all its 450 mortgage advisers to use the system. This multi-award winning mortgage and protection firm joins other respected protection advisers such as LifeSearch, Assured Futures, Future Proof and Cura in adopting UnderwriteMe’s Platform Protection technology, which ... Read More
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November 2, 2018 This is custom heading element Protection has really started to change over the last few years. While the upper echelons of most major insurers remains largely pale and male, we’re seeing the tangible effects of industry efforts to redress the gender and ethnicity imbalance, with senior female executives gaining prominence and a more interesting array of faces ... Read More
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October 10, 2018 This is custom heading element Pacific Life Re and UnderwriteMe are pleased to confirm their collaboration with the National Centre for Text Mining (NaCTeM) at the University of Manchester in the UK. This project is developing a system which uses artificial intelligence and text mining techniques to process unstructured medical textual data, such as doctors’ reports on ... Read More
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October 4, 2018 This is custom heading element Zurich Financial Services Australia has chosen to adopt UnderwriteMe’s Underwriting Rules Engine (URE), powered by Pacific Life Re Australia. The move comes as part of a major overhaul and rebrand of Zurich’s adviser facing portal, making it the fourth company to implement the system this year. The URE, which also includes an ... Read More
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October 1, 2018 This is custom heading element UnderwriteMe has released the results of a survey among 101 advisers and mortgage brokers who sell protection insurance, which highlights that three in five (60%) are ready for the Insurance Distribution Directive (IDD) deadline of 1st October 2018. Download Pinsent Masons IDD adviser note [pdf] IDD Press release [pdf] Phil Jeynes, Head ... Read More
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July 11, 2018 This is custom heading element AIG Life Limited has added its upgraded Critical Illness, Life, and Income Protection Cover products to UnderwriteMe’s comparison service. The addition of AIG Life means a total of eight major UK protection providers are now live on the online service, which enables intermediaries to quote, compare, underwrite and sell with ‘buy now’ ... Read More
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May 10, 2018 This is custom heading element UnderwriteMe, the largest supplier of automated underwriting systems in the UK and Ireland, has appointed Julie Evans to the post of Chief Operating Officer (COO). Formerly Chief Information Officer for Aviva’s UK operation and before that, Barclays’ Asia operation, Julie’s extensive experience heading up information technology and computer systems for leading financial ... Read More
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April 26, 2018 This is custom heading element Pacific Life Re is pleased to announce the appointment of Lindsay Stark to the role of Senior Underwriting Developer. Lindsay will be responsible for ensuring UnderwriteMe clients gain an advantage over the competition by making the process of purchasing life insurance simpler and faster. Lindsay is a highly experienced Life Underwriter with ... Read More
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October 17, 2017 This is custom heading element Pacific Life Re forms a partnership with Singapore Life to launch UnderwriteMe in Asia Singapore (9th October 2017) – In partnership with Pacific Life Re, Singapore Life has become the first insurer in Asia to offer the UK’s leading Underwriting Rules Engine to drive its sales via their distribution channels, including online ... Read More
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July 18, 2017 This is custom heading element Digital insurance specialists, UnderwriteMe, have seen their Underwriting Rules Engine chosen by insurers in two new territories, along with a second partnership in Ireland. The engine will be at the core of digital transformation for Dublin based Friends First, Singapore Life, a new entrant to the Asian market, and Australian insurer MLC ... Read More
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April 10, 2017 This is custom heading element Aegon have confirmed that they will be partnering with UnderwriteMe to digitise their Protection offering in 2017. The deal will see Aegon, working with IT service provider ATOS, upgrade their existing extranet service with UnderwriteMe’s market-leading digital technology*. In addition, Aegon will also join the UnderwriteMe Comparison Service later this year. The ... Read More
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November 22, 2016 This is custom heading element London and Country Mortgages has today announced that it will be integrating the UnderwriteMe comparison service into its sales teams. UnderwriteMe lets intermediaries get underwritten "buy now" prices, as well as simple quick quotes, and allows applications to be made to a range of insurers, using one common application process. The move ... Read More