Tokyo FinTech Meetup

Tokyo FinTech Meetup is honored to welcome Koichi Narasaki, Executive Officer and Group Chief Digital Officer at Sompo Holdings, for a discussion on Innovation in Insurance. Narasaki-san will give a brief overview of Sompo, as well as his and his department's role as a catalyst for change, before diving deeper into the collaboration with LINE and Zhang An. The presentation will be followed by Q&A. 18:45 Doors Open 19:00 Event Starts 20:00 Networking 21:00 Event Closes - Happy Holidays! Tokyo FinTech Meetup would like to thank Natixis Japan Securities for hosting this event. =============================================================== The Japanese insurance market is dominated by three major insurance groups, namely MS&AD Holdings, Tokio Marine Holdings, and Sompo Holdings, which together account for roughly 90% of the market. Among these groups, Sompo appears to be the most aggressive when importing innovation from abroad. Much of the evidence leads back to the appointment of Koichi Narasaki as the Group Digital Officer during the management restructuring in February 2017. Under his leadership, Sompo announced a co-operation with LINE in April 2018, and a business partnership with Zhong An in September 2018. Moving at high speed, the LINE Insurance service went live on October 16, 2018, offering 59 different theme-based insurance policies, such as travel, sports, events, golfing, etc. While most of the policies are short-term, and provide daily coverage for unique situations, including seasonal outdoor events, bad weather, volunteer work, and outdoor concerts, others, such as bicycle insurance and legal expenses insurance, provide annual coverage. The application process is limited to five very lean screens, and has been designed to be completed within 60 seconds or less. Settlement of premiums is done through LINE Pay (either through LINE Pay balances or a credit card connected with the LINE Pay account), with LINE certainly seeing this as another means to promote cashless payments in Japan.

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