Fineqia Announces Stake in Blockchain Insurance Company Black Insurance
Black intends to become a licensed insuer and enable the underwriting of new insurance policies via insurance syndicates akin to the
Black will price the risk of specific syndicates and sell fractional ownership in such pools in the form of tokens representing the unit value of each syndicate's expected financial return. This process makes participation in insurance syndicates more efficient and transparent via time-stamped and traceable transaction records recorded on the blockchain.
Black is gearing toward an ICO later this year, to sell utility tokens that will be used for transacting on its platform, once it is publicly available.
The strategic investment allows
"We are excited to back Black, which allows for a wide variety of investors to participate in a high quality insurance finance product," said
"Black represents everything we want from issuers on our platform: innovation, disruption and ambition," said Rangar. "We believe that insurance is one sector ripe for blockchain disruption and
Research by Accenture indicates that a third of all insurers are planning to use blockchain in the next two years and another third have it on their agendas for consideration.
"There is a lot of appetite in the insurance industry to innovate and cross the threshold to a radically new era," adds Risto Rossar, Black's founder. "We already have dozens of requests from brokers across the world to join the platform. They have grown impatient of the innovation-averse, slow mindset dominating the industry, and see Black as a way to make their aspirations a reality."
Black's utilization of blockchain in insurance means a decrease in operational costs, increased security and transparency, mitigation against any single point of failure and enhancement of the reputations for all parties involved. By establishing a marketplace where investors and insurance underwriters can directly trade with one another, Black seeks to minimize transaction costs.
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Black is a digital insurance company on blockchain that allows token holders to invest directly into insurance risk and completely change the way how insurance markets work. Their aim is to create global digital insurance platform that can make all insurance companies obsolete. For more information visit: https://www.black.insure/
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