
Agile Financial Technologies Inc.: Agility in the age of technology disruption for insurance and investment firms


Agile FT’s customer community of leading insurers, banks and investment management firms is spread across 28 countries in the Americas, Africa, Middle East and Asia. Support and implementation services are delivered locally through Agile FT’s ecosystem of channel partners.
Agile FT has been a first mover in the areas of deploying blockchain and IoT (Internet of things) technology in emerging markets. An interesting use of blockchain deployment has been in its core Insurance and BancAssurance platforms. Banks and insurance companies come under different regulatory regimes that impose restrictions on data privacy and sharing. The resolution was to establish a permissioned blockchain (distributed digital ledger) between the insurers and the bank. Customer onboarding is facilitated because insurers can rely on the KYC conducted by the bank. Reconciliation errors are eliminated. The customer, bank and insurers can interact on a single blockchain using standardized protocols. Since the customer, using their private key, can approve the disclosure of information to a service provider for a defined period of time, cross-selling, up-selling and identity management is easily facilitated. The customer’s identity is immediately verified on the blockchain as is the ability for the service providers to trap and detect fraudulent transactions.
IoT technology adoption has also seen traction amongst insurers. To drive innovation in weather-linked insurance policies targeted at the agricultural industry, an IoT device has been deployed by an Agilis Insurance customer for farmers in rural areas (where last mile connectivity is a challenge) to monitor and alert on adverse weather conditions against which the farms are insured. In the event of a calamity, Agilis’ messaging platform automatically raises the first notification of loss, enabling the insurer to process the claim in a timely manner.![]()
We pride ourselves in bringing technology agility to our customers in the insurance, banking and financial services industry, in this age of digital disruption
Its private cloud offering enables greenfield (startup) insurance companies get to market quickly with ready and templated business models. This is a differentiated offering since it is a holistic service that encompasses both the production and the disaster recovery environments for the financial services firms deploying Agilis.
“We pride ourselves in bringing technology agility to our customers in the insurance, banking and financial services industry, in this age of digital disruption. Our ability to learn and adapt to the changes affecting our customers is the primary contributor to our success. In addition to our embedded business intelligence capabilities, we are also building machine learning capabilities into our insurtech & fintech stack to enable customers leverage usage based pricing in the near term”, said Desai.
Company
Agile Financial Technologies Inc
Headquarters
Uniondale, NY
Management
Kalpesh Desai, Founder & CEO
Description
Offers on-demand and on-premise core platforms that automate the business processes of insurance carriers, banks, financial services and investment management firms
