Insurance finally opens its gates to digital solutions

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Barry McCall

The financial services sector has experienced massive disruption over the last decade, with new technology bringing a wave of agile new players into banking, investment markets and a range of other areas. Insurance, on the other hand, has remained largely unchanged, with the leading companies still doing business in largely the same way as they have been for decades, if not longer.

But that is beginning to change, and innovative Irish companies are playing a leading role in the development of the new digital solutions which are set to transform this most traditional of industries.