M2M Telematics: Fleet Management & Usage Based Insurance
PTOLEMUS will be present at the M2M Telematics for Fleet Management and Usage Based Insurance conference in London on 20th-21st February 2013. Frederic Bruneteau, our managing partner, will present the...
View ArticleUsage-based Insurance set for the mainstream?
PTOLEMUS tracks the UBI / insurance telematics landscape on a regular basis. We notably published a 400-page report on the subject last June. We are currently seeing the insurance market move from...
View ArticleInsurance Telematics Europe Conference 2013
Our Managing Director, Frederic Bruneteau, will chair and introduce the Insurance Telematics Europe Conference. The conference, taking place on 7-8th May in London, is the number 1 event about...
View ArticleIs the insurance telematics sector ridding a bubble?
Insurance Telematics Europe brought its usual share of over-excitement, grand statements and enlightenment amid a full-house participation of around 400. A wide variety of Insurance players were...
View ArticleReinventing the Driver-Insurer relationship with Telematics
Finding the right offer for new segments, as well as segmenting the market in new ways to provide new UBI products, has proved very difficult and the road is paved with failures. We look at some of the...
View ArticleCanadian UBI market in full Indian summer bloom
Until now, UBI in Canada has been limited to a few programmes, but, in the past few weeks, a string of announcements has turned this almost static market into a hot spot for UBI. We caught up with...
View Article12 things you need to get right to succeed in UBI
In the last few weeks, three Fortune 500 organisations came to us and said: “2014 is the year of telematics for us. We will be launching a major initiative”. As we constantly talk to insurers about...
View ArticleData privacy: it’s not just the law which is changing
With fresh calls for tighter regulation on how personal location data is handled coming from the most unlikely ranks, we look at how data management will change for insurance carriers, services...
View ArticleConnected vehicles services: legal and regulatory update
This month, we asked Osborne Clarke to analyse the main legal developments since the publication of the UBI global study in October 2013 and their potential impact on the industry. The eCall Mandate...
View ArticleTelematics will “uber-ize” the auto insurance industry, says PTOLEMUS’ new...
PTOLEMUS Consulting Group released the 2016 edition of its usage-based insurance global study by offering a free, 125-page abstract. Available to download today, the document reveals the key findings...
View ArticleWill Italy mandate telematics in Insurance?
(Italian version) Since August last year, there is a law in Italy that recommends Telematics for all insurance. (L124/2017 – Market and competition act approved by the parliament on 4 August 2017) The...
View ArticleMy experience of UBI: some insurers are simply missing the point
I have been analysing the UBI market for about 10 years and believed every programme would take the opportunity to connect with their customers and use driver scoring to give feedback, therefore...
View ArticleSmartphonisation is reshaping banking. Insurance is next
Less than 6% of all auto insurance policyholders worldwide actively use an insurer’s mobile app. This corresponds to only 50 million drivers globally – about half of US mobile banking users! We...
View ArticleSmartphones will change the story
Smartphones are impacting the Usage-based Insurance proposition from different angles but one of the real gains will be seen on the sales and marketing sides. One of the most difficult challenge today...
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