Gravity shifting towards insurtechs Custom-tailored policies. On-demand coverage. Fractionalized premiums. Underwriting in a matter of seconds. All these done on a smartphone. The insurtechs behind these innovations have shaken up the insurance industry, and the reaction of an incumbent has been to heavily invest in or acquire an up-and-coming insurtech to boost its technological capabilities.…
GOING SOCIAL: THE CHANGING LANDSCAPE OF ECOMMERCE
Winning the ecommerce game means going social. Social commerce goes beyond facilitating P2P transactions; it scales these transactions using features of social networking platforms, involving entire communities and networks in the purchase journey of a customer. It is this ability to scale online transactions through social connections that makes social commerce powerful. Digital convergence behind…
3 WAYS SOUTHEAST ASIA IS STEPPING UP ITS ESPORTS GAME IN 2019
Global esports ecosystem reaps the rewards of 2018 2018 was the year esports broke out of its comfort zone. The world of competitive, organized video gaming saw the entry of competitions into primetime TV with the inaugural championship of Blizzard’s Overwatch League on Disney’s ESPN last July and the Asian Games in Indonesia where six…
SOUTHEAST ASIA’S RETAIL BOOM FUELS THE RISE OF LOGISTICS
Alibaba’s logistics arm Cainiao Smart Logistics Network had reportedly delivered the first 100 million parcels from the Singles Day Global Shopping Festival in just 2.6 days, illustrating that the e-commerce giant is quite simply on a whole another level to the logistics companies in Southeast Asia which are beset by infrastructure challenges.
HOW DIGITAL DISRUPTORS SERVE THE UNBANKED IN SOUTHEAST ASIA
Just last week, DHL launched a new service to allow the unbanked in Southeast Asia to buy online through its Cross Border Cash-on-Delivery (COD) service. This follows other new-age players like Grab/Go-Jek aggressively launching initiatives of their own to provide financial services to people who don’t have banking accounts.