{"id":2679,"date":"2021-02-09T11:32:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-09T03:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iglooinsure.com\/press\/sea-insurtech-igloo-partners-with-philinsure-to-push-digitalisation-efforts-protecting-filipinos-amidst-covid-19\/"},"modified":"2021-02-09T11:32:00","modified_gmt":"2021-02-09T03:32:00","slug":"sea-insurtech-igloo-partners-with-philinsure-to-push-digitalisation-efforts-protecting-filipinos-amidst-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"press","link":"https:\/\/iglooinsure.com\/ph\/press\/sea-insurtech-igloo-partners-with-philinsure-to-push-digitalisation-efforts-protecting-filipinos-amidst-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"SEA insurtech Igloo partners with Philinsure to push digitalisation efforts; protecting filipinos amidst COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>Together with Igloo, Philinsure is offering insurance protection to Filipino families, recognizing that they are one of the most critical pillars needed to support the economic recovery of the Philippines.<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>This insurance offering is timely given the unpredictable risks Filipino families face.\u00a0 These risks include natural catastrophes like typhoons, flooding, and earthquakes and of course, health risks, including Covid-19.<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Igloo looks to expand its business in the Philippines. It expects the number of policies sold via its platform to quadruple in the next year, and looks for strategic investors for its upcoming funding round, which is expected to close by Q1 2021<br>\u200d<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Manila, Philippines, 9 February 2021<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Singapore-headquartered Insurtech,\u00a0<a href=\"\/\">Igloo<\/a>, today announced an official partnership with Philippines-based insurance broker Philpacific Insurance Brokers Inc. (Philinsure). This partnership kicks off with the digitization of Philinsure\u2019s insurance products offering\u00a0 accessible and affordable insurance to Filipinos in the country to support their need for security and protection. As the partnership evolves, Igloo and Philinsure will be providing more insurance products to better protect the families in the Philippines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mr Raunak Mehta, Chief Commercial Officer of Igloo, said,&nbsp;\u201cThis pandemic brought about an urgent need for traditional industries to tap technology, and this is especially evident in the insurance sector in the Philippines. This partnership with Philinsure aims to support a very important sector in the Philippines, such as small business owners whose work have a very real and immediate impact on their communities. We want to be able to provide them with affordable and relevant protection to give them the confidence to focus on their business and their livelihood.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With a\u00a0digital insurance penetration of less than 1 per cent, the availability of insurance protection in the Philippines is largely offline which limits their reach, especially in these days of the pandemic. Igloo sees a lot of potential in driving this digitally to provide highly customized and relevant solutions to the consumers in the most accessible, scalable, and affordable manner. Leveraging its technological capabilities, Igloo is able to deliver operational efficiencies and lower costs for its insurance partners, and provide value-adding products to the customer base of its distribution partners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gordon Alan \u201cDondi\u201d Joseph, CEO of Philinsure, shared,&nbsp;\u201cWe are excited to be working with Igloo as part of our effort to better drive our CSR advocacy to serve Filipino families, wherever they are in the Philippines or in the world.&nbsp; We also see that working with Igloo will help us achieve greater efficiencies in our post-pandemic digitization program.&nbsp; We look forward to working with Igloo to widen our CSR advocacy through its digital platform that is capable of providing a simple, effective means of protecting and therefore empowering the Filipino Family.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to UNDP Philippines, micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) comprise 99.5 per cent of the nation\u2019s business establishment, employing approximately 63 per cent of the country\u2019s workforce. Igloo\u2019s partnership with Philinsure is part of Igloo\u2019s larger mission to provide affordable insurance to the masses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The partnership seeks to strengthen Igloo\u2019s foothold in the Philippines market as it expands the variety of verticals it serves from on-demand customer platforms to banks, fintech, and logistics firms. Since its entry into the Philippines with its collaboration with Southeast Asia\u2019s largest and fastest-growing hotel management and booking platform,\u00a0RedDoorz\u00a0in 2019, Igloo has also partnered with the\u00a0UnionBank of the Philippines\u00a0in August last year. The insurtech has also widened its insurance partner base to include\u00a0Mercantile,\u00a0Pioneer,\u00a0PGA-Sompo Insurance Corporation, and\u00a0United Coconut Planters Life Assurance Corporation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Igloo looks to evolve its product offering by investing in the development of new products to cater and fit the ever-changing market needs. Apart from these existing products, Igloo aims to work with partners to launch new policies such as home, business, internet security, pet insurance, and those focused on single diseases such as dengue and COVID-19. With these plans in mind, the team looks to hire more people in their Philippines office as it expects the number of policies sold via its platform in the Philippines to grow 4x this year. The company is also looking for strategic investors for their upcoming funding round, which is expected to close by Q1 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Igloo, founded by Mr Wei Zhu in June 2016 to provide affordable insurance for everyone, is a full-stack insurtech firm, employs big data, dynamic risk assessment, and expedited claims management, to provide partners with widened distribution networks and allows consumers access to customized insurance solutions. To date, Igloo has sold over 100 million policies in Singapore, the Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, and Indonesia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Together with Igloo, Philinsure is offering insurance protection to Filipino families, recognizing that they are one of the most critical pillars needed to support the economic recovery of the Philippines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2325,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"country":[8],"class_list":["post-2679","press","type-press","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","country-philippines"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iglooinsure.com\/ph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press\/2679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iglooinsure.com\/ph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iglooinsure.com\/ph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/press"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iglooinsure.com\/ph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iglooinsure.com\/ph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press\/2679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iglooinsure.com\/ph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iglooinsure.com\/ph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iglooinsure.com\/ph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=2679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}