Corgi's $108m, Honeycomb, Pace and Airbnb's parametric push: how AI captured 95% of InsurTech funding in 2026. Read the breakdown.

Zurich Insurance Group has selected WTW's Radar as the rating and pricing engine for its retail insurance business worldwide, extending a relationship that previously covered only a handful of country markets into a single global standard. The decision hands WTW the pricing infrastructure behind a retail book that Zurich has valued at roughly USD 16 billion, and it follows what the two firms describe as a competitive selection process. For finance professionals, the substance

A new industry paper is pressing finance ministries and power utilities across eastern and southern Africa to treat drought not as an operational nuisance but as a balance-sheet and sovereign-credit risk, and to hedge it with parametric insurance before the next dry year arrives. The paper, From Exposure to Protection: The Case for Parametric Insurance Revenue Cover for Hydro-Dependent Utilities in Eastern and Southern Africa, was published on 16 September 2026 by IDRIMA, the

From Oriental Insurance's new climate cover to Qover's fresh growth capital and a broader AI takeover of insurance operations, the past seven days show a sector accelerating toward instant, agentic, data-triggered cover. There is a phrase quietly gaining currency in insurance boardrooms this month: pay first, argue later. It captures a real change in how underwriters, reinsurers and regulators are starting to think about claims. And the seven days ending 14 September 2026 off