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Zurich Malaysia Partners Singaporean Fintech to Simplify Financial Planning
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Zurich Malaysia Partners Singaporean Fintech to Simplify Financial Planning

Zurich Malaysia (Zurich) and Singapore-based fintech BetterTradeOff, today launched ‘Up | MyZurichLife’, a financial planning solution exclusively for MyZurichLife’s users to help them plan their finance. The solution took root after BetterTradeOff won the Malaysian round of the Zurich Innovation

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FWD Kicks off Insurtech and Takafultech Accelerator Programme
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FWD Kicks off Insurtech and Takafultech Accelerator Programme

FWD Insurance announced the launch of the FWD Start-Up Studio to support insurtech and takafultech startups in Malaysia, with seed funding of RM1.2 million over two years. The studio aims to build a new talent pool for insurance technology and

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Malaysian Insurtech Ouch! Raises RM 1.5 Million in Seed Funding
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Malaysian Insurtech Ouch! Raises RM 1.5 Million in Seed Funding

Ouch!, a Malaysian-based digital insurance platform, announced that it had raised RM 1.5 million in a seed funding round from Vynn Capital and Temokin, along with a few angel investors. With the funding, the Ouch! team will be focusing on

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Tune Protect Launches Its First Online Cashless E-Medical Card
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Tune Protect Launches Its First Online Cashless E-Medical Card

Tune Protect Malaysia launched its first online cashless e-medical card, PRO-Health Medical, with growing awareness for medical protection, soaring healthcare costs and tightened wallets. The e-medical card provides customers coverage for hospitalisation and surgical expenses including in-patient, daycare surgical procedures

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Fi Life Partners AXA Affin to Offer Online Medical Insurance
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Fi Life Partners AXA Affin to Offer Online Medical Insurance

AXA Affin General Insurance Berhad (AXA) has partnered with Fi Life, a Malaysian insurtech startup, to offer online medical insurance complete with an e-medical card. The products offered by them are SmartCare Optimum and SmartCare Optimum Plus. AXA said that

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GHL Ties up With Loanstreet to Offer Online Road Tax and Insurance Renewal
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GHL Ties up With Loanstreet to Offer Online Road Tax and Insurance Renewal

Payments firm GHL has expanded its service offerings to include road tax and vehicle insurance renewal service with a recent tie up with Loanstreet, a Malaysian financial market place. On the heels of the launch of GROW by GHL, offering

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AIA Begins Regional Tie Up with ZA Tech in Malaysia
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AIA Begins Regional Tie Up with ZA Tech in Malaysia

AIA Group has announced a regional strategic digital technology partnership with ZA Tech, a tech venture founded by Chinese digital insurer ZhongAn. The initial focus will be Malaysia, where AIA General Bhd announced a new digital insurance plan sold through Shopee,

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360F and FI Life Launches Personalised Advisory for Insurance and Investment Plans
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360F and FI Life Launches Personalised Advisory for Insurance and Investment Plans

Singapore-based fintech company 360F and Fi Life, a Kuala Lumpur-based insurtech, have collaborated to introduce the new 360-NeedsProfiler to the Malaysian market. This online tool allows users to self-discover their financial needs based on Malaysian demographic and mortality data and

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Tune Protect Names AXA Affin Life’s Ex-CEO, Rohit Nambiar As Their New Group CEO
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Tune Protect Names AXA Affin Life’s Ex-CEO, Rohit Nambiar As Their New Group CEO

Tune Protect Group Berhad today announced the appointment of Rohit Chandrasekharan Nambiar as its Group Chief Executive Officer effective 14 October 2020. Rohit takes over the helm from Khoo Ai Lin who resigned on 31 July 2020. In his new

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Fi Life to Tap Kakitangan.com’s SME Base to Offer Insurance to 50,000 Employees
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Fi Life to Tap Kakitangan.com’s SME Base to Offer Insurance to 50,000 Employees

Fi Life will be offering direct life protection for users of the Kakitangan.com’s payroll and leave management web app which is said to serve more than 5,000 SMEs and 50,000 employees. Through the Kakitangan.com’s web app, users are now able

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