En el tercer episodio del SCOR Innovation Podcast , continuamos nuestra exploración de las soluciones alternativas en el mercado latinoamericano. Esta vez, nos sentamos con líderes de Gallagher Re y SCOR para analizar cómo el reaseguro estructurado está transformando la gestión de capital, la mitigación de riesgos y la solvencia en un entorno cada vez más volátil. Descubra ejemplos del mundo real y estrategias clave para el éxito. ¡Una conversación imperdible para todo profesional de seguros que...
Feb 04, 2025•24 min
El SCOR Innovation Podcast le trae un nuevo episodio lleno de información clave para el éxito en el mercado de reaseguros. En esta ocasión, expertos de Guy Carpenter y SCOR nos guían a través del poder del reaseguro estructurado para las aseguradoras latinoamericanas. Exploramos cómo esta innovadora herramienta permite navegar las complejidades del mercado actual, optimizar el capital y fortalecer la solidez financiera. ¡No se pierda las estrategias y perspectivas que le ayudarán a llevar su neg...
Jan 28, 2025•28 min
¡Bienvenido al Innovation Podcast de SCOR , el podcast donde exploramos las últimas tendencias en reaseguro en Latinoamérica! En este primer episodio, nos adentramos en el fascinante mundo de las soluciones alternativas. Acompáñenos a descubrir cómo el reaseguro estructurado está revolucionando la industria y brindando nuevas oportunidades a las reaseguradoras de la región. Expertos de AON y SCOR nos guían a través de los desafíos y oportunidades clave, con ejemplos concretos y estrategias innov...
Jan 21, 2025•23 min
SCOR’s Life & Health Underwriting & Claims publication is celebrating its 10th birthday. Over the last decade, SCORacle has brought the latest innovation and change in underwriting and claims practice to SCOR’s UK & Irish market clients. From advances in medicine and healthcare to changes in legislation affecting the industry and technology advances to achieve improved customer outcomes, SCORacle has consistently delivered thought-provoking content. In this episode David Ferguson, Un...
Jan 13, 2025•27 min
In this second episode about Fraud in Insurance, Robyn Wallner, Underwriting Solutions in the US, and Paul Blyth, Head of Underwriting Claims & Propositions in the UK, discuss innovative solutions with host David Ferguson, Underwriting and Claims Development Manager from the UK. Innovative technology, trends analysis, databases, heat maps, artificial intelligence, and more are being used to identify fraud in underwriting and claims to stay ahead of the fraudsters using many of the same tools...
Oct 21, 2024•20 min
How big is the global insurance fraud problem and how can we mitigate the fraud risk? The latest SCOR Innovation Podcast episode features David Ferguson, Underwriting and Claims Development Manager from the UK, interviewing Robyn Wallner, Underwriting Solutions in the US, and Paul Blyth, Head of Underwriting Claims & Propositions in the UK. Join us to hear a comparison between the fraud issues on either side of the Atlantic Ocean, as the experts discuss fraud trends, factors constituting fra...
Sep 30, 2024•22 min
Behavioral economics research has shown that small details can have a large impact on how a person behaves. As life insurance transitions to using digital and streamlined processes, we must rely more on application form responses. However, traditional application forms can be complicated, confusing, and difficult for applicants to answer easily. Behavioral science concepts applied to redesigned application form questions create a better customer experience and improve the accuracy and honesty of...
Aug 26, 2024•22 min
In this episode, SCOR longevity specialists, Ruth Damian and Phil Curtis, explore the threat posed by longevity risk and the reinsurance solutions available to insurers and pension schemes. BIOS: Phil Curtis, Head of Longevity Business Development Phil is Head of Longevity Business Development for SCOR. Based in London, UK, he has 15 years’ experience working in pensions and life insurance. Since joining SCOR in 2021, Phil has helped secure multibillion-dollars’ of longevity risk for clients and...
May 22, 2024•11 min
There’s an App for That: Skin Cancer Prevention Skin Screener, developed by Austrian startup medaia, is a mobile app that assesses the risk of skin cancer via photos. Easy to use, cost effective and widely available now in Europe, the app helps users detect skin cancer earlier, when intervention is likely to be more successful. Learn how the innovative, AI-supported algorithm is a new tool in the fight against cancer. SCOR Innovation Podcast host Thomas Trompetter interviews medaia CEO Albin Ska...
Apr 26, 2024•12 min
SCOR Global Agile Coach Al Mele discusses the innovative mindset and the importance of courageous, open-minded collaboration within today's workplaces with Angela Bolduc, a Principal and Managing Director for the Milliman IntelliScript practice. This Life and Health episode of the SCOR Innovation Podcast explores why a culture of innovation requires employees feeling safe and unafraid to try new things, asking questions, and speaking their minds. HOST: Al Mele , CSPO, CSM Senior Vice President, ...
Mar 26, 2024•17 min
In this episode, we welcome Michel Krenzer, Global Head of Energy, and Nicholas, a young 6th grader curious about his environment. They were both recently featured on our series on “Hydrogen” which you can also find on the channel. Today, Michel will have a conversation with Nicholas to try and debunk its negative views on plastics. They will also go over the basics and origins of plastics, while answering the question “What do diamonds and plastics have in common?” Michel Krenzer has over 25 ye...
Mar 20, 2024•22 min
TAL , Australia’s largest life insurer, offers life insurance, critical illness, total and permanent disability insurance, and income protection coverage. They are using SCOR ’s award-winning VClaims solution, powered by technology partner Adviser Connect in Australia and New Zealand, to revolutionize their entire claims experience. Digitalization, automation, and simplification in their claims processes is helping eliminate human errors while enhancing the human touch across their life insuranc...
Nov 20, 2023•23 min
BIOS: Olivier Armengaud is a Senior Manager in the SCOR Life & Health Digital Solutions team. He joined SCOR in 2015 as Investor Relations before pivoting to Life & Health Ventures in 2021. Before joining SCOR, Olivier was an Associate at Brunswick, a leading strategic consultancy working on various M&A and IPO transactions. Olivier is a graduate from EDHEC Business School, Paris IX Dauphine and the University of Texas-Pan America (UTPA). Amir Kaplan is the co-founder and Chief Execu...
Oct 25, 2023•16 min
PODCAST SUMMARY: During this second episode of our two-part series presented by SCOR’s U.S. Underwriting Solutions team, we introduce SCOR Monitoring & Acceleration Reporting Tool, or SMART. The SMART tool uses visualizations from our data analytics platform to provide rigorous monitoring of accelerated underwriting programs and to identify actions to improve programs quickly when needed. Moderator Michelle Spevak interviews James Atkins and Thomas Ballweg about SMART, its pricing implicatio...
Aug 21, 2023•15 min
In this last episode of the three-part series entitled “Towards Carbon Neutrality: Offshore Wind" GQ, Lionel, and Xingang will discuss around the role of insurance in offshore wind and their different perspectives on the topic. In this episode, among other topics they will highlight the role of insurance in offshore wind farms, claims trend, and design defect. The first 2 parts of this series "Offshore Wind, the basics for the next generation” and “Offshore Wind Farms Market Conditions & Ris...
Jul 19, 2023•18 min
PODCAST DESCRIPTION During this episode, representatives from SCOR’s U.S. Underwriting Solutions team explain the FAST (Facultative Assessment & Selection Tool) platform, which allows client underwriters to instantly assess qualifying medical impairments with rating of Table 4 or better, potentially improving the client rating on an underwriting case. Host James Atkins interviews Don Mayes to explain the tool and discuss recent enhancements, including simplified issue and preferred underwrit...
Jul 19, 2023•10 min
The first part of this series entitled “Towards Carbon Neutrality: Offshore Wind, the basics for the next generation” is available on the channel and we encourage everyone to listen to it, if you want to know more on the fundamentals and how offshore wind energy works. On today’s discussion, GQ, Lionel and Xingang, our three SCOR experts, will discuss the differences of logistics, processes and legislation, but also will go over progress in each of their market (EMEA, APAC, Americas) and how the...
Jul 11, 2023•20 min
In this episode we are pleased to welcome back Nicholas, 10 years old today, this schoolboy curious about renewable energies who had already accompanied us in an episode dedicated to Hydrogen, which you can also find on this channel. Nicholas is telling us "I think that I’ve heard that one hour of collecting power is just enough to produce energy for one light, or maybe not one light, but one or two homes out of millions. So my thoughts are a little negative towards them and investing in them bu...
May 02, 2023•19 min
Jenny McDonnell hosts this episode of SCOR Innovation Podcast featuring Meglena Jeleva to discuss a research study that explored consumer purchasing behavior of life insurance. Jeleva shares how the team of three researchers used a discrete choice experiment to gain insights about which features of a life insurance product are most important to customers and to learn about how willing people are to pay for these features and how they make trade-offs between them. Understanding what is most impor...
Mar 31, 2023•18 min
What if just a few small changes in individual driving habits could snowball into significant emission reductions? In this second part of a series of two episodes dedicated to Telematics, our guest Philippe Moulin, CEO of DriveQuant, discusses the results of their eco-driving research. What are the implications of some of these changes in habits? How can insurers support their clients adapt to eco-driving? Philippe Moulin, CEO of DriveQuant, is an engineer with a Ph.D. in applied mathematics. He...
Mar 17, 2023•14 min
In this first part of a series of two episodes dedicated to Telematics, we are talking to Philippe Moulin, CEO of DriveQuant. Founded in 2017 by two French engineers, DriveQuant helps insurers deploy mobility measure solutions, and new mobility offers such as Pay-As-You-Drive and Pay-How-You-Drive insurance. During the conversation, Philippe discusses the results of their Driving Distraction Barometer, the identified drivers’ profiles, and what implication this data has for insurers. Philippe Mo...
Mar 13, 2023•18 min
In this episode of SCOR Innovation Podcast, Torsten Hefer interviews Björn Zollenkop about an innovative collaboration to test behavioral insurance as a sales incentive. The program combined term life sales with incentives to encourage healthy behaviors of policyholders, using SCOR’s Biological Age Model (BAM) and an app developed by Fjuul to measure policyholder engagement. Four notable German term life insurance companies participated in the program with CHECK24, a leading insurance comparison...
Mar 09, 2023•20 min
This episode hosted by Rebecca Zhang, Chief Partnership Officer for South Asia at SCOR Life, explores an innovative cancer screening solution and preventive healthcare concepts by Bowtie Life Insurance Company - Hong Kong’s very first virtual insurer. Our guest Jacky Lio, Chief Medical Officer at Bowtie, explains how they want to engage customers on preventive health programs to have a better long term health outcome. In his role as Chief Medical Officer, Jacky Lio plays a crucial role in drivin...
Feb 28, 2023•18 min
In this episode of SCOR Innovation Podcast, Richard De Sousa, SVP, Deputy Head of Growth & Development at SCOR Life & Health US, interviews Tim Ash, CEO, Ash Brokerage, to discuss how his 50-year-old company innovates their offerings with technology, research and development along with education to ensure they stay relevant in the Life & Health insurance industry. Richard De Sousa was named SVP, Deputy Head, Growth and Development in August 2021 for SCOR Life & Health in the U.S....
Oct 07, 2022•13 min
SCOR is quite uniquely positioned to work with insurtech, not just as an investor, but also as an enabler, to help startups grow and navigate the complex world of insurance business. Will and Randy explain Ventures strategy for the APAC region is built upon the Ventures 2.0 global strategy that was announced in early 2021. Randy Liu represents SCOR Ventures in the APAC region, based in Singapore. Randy has a background in catastrophe modelling and climate change. He is fluent in Mandarin. Will B...
Sep 14, 2022•21 min
In this episode of SCOR Innovation Podcast, David Ferguson hosts Jussi Räisänen, health entrepreneur and investor, based in Helsinki who co-founded Habito Health. They discuss digital health solutions that can energize different communities (public corporations, public service organizations and the military, for example). Jussi explains how activity-based data might be used to create personalized underwriting that’s easy to understand for life insurance applicants. Tune in to learn more about ho...
Aug 15, 2022•22 min
Agriculture is one of the most vulnerable economic activities to climate change. Atmospheric variables most relevant for agriculture include temperature and precipitation. Even moderate weather anomalies such as reduced sunshine, can lead to significant crop yield loss High temperatures are a problem because they accelerate plant development. When this happens there is less time for growth and therefore less yield. Moreover, extreme heat itself decreases crop yield. Climate change does not only ...
Aug 02, 2022•21 min
Manisha Dias, Vice President, Strategic Partnerships for SCOR in the U.S., hosts this episode of SCOR’s Innovation Podcast, interviewing Felix Ortiz, CEO and co-founder of Onuu. Onuu is the first of its kind, an all-in-one banking and insurance solution, built by and for Americans of modest means. Join us to hear how Ortiz's personal childhood experiences led him to harness the power of machine learning and digital technology to design an innovative solution for a long-standing problem: helping ...
Jul 13, 2022•12 min
It seems that every time a natural catastrophe happens it is unique, and something new is learned from each incident by the insurance industry. Newer thoughts on Wet-Hurricanes started to surface after Hurricane Harvey ran aground in 2017, modelling difficult frequency perils became more and more evident with the increasing losses year over year from Severe convective storms, and climate and its effect on individual perils like what happened with Winter Storm Uri in Texas in February of 2021 wil...
Jun 07, 2022•18 min
Today’s episode explores disruptive healthcare technologies in neurodegenerative diseases hosted by David Ferguson, Underwriting Development Manager in one of SCOR’s Innovation Teams. Our guest is Professor Stephen Smith, co-founder and director of ClearSky Medical Diagnostics and Professor of Electronic Engineering in the Department of Electronics at University of York. 1 in 4 people get a misdiagnosis in Parkinson’s disease which can lead to an overtreatment. Professor Smith highlights the imp...
May 27, 2022•24 min
