Global Bancassurance: Product and Partnership Strategies in Protection-Related Life Insurance of the World's Top 500 Retail Banking Groups

Global Bancassurance: Product and Partnership Strategies in Protection-Related Life Insurance of the World's Top 500 Retail Banking Groups is a report and PartnerBASE™ dataset that provides an overview of the involvement in risk life, critical illness and income protection insurance of 500 of the world’s leading consumer banking groups. These have been selected through a formula that considers the value of their total assets, the degree to which they have significant consumer banking operations (thereby excluding pure investment and corporate banking groups) and their rank by number of retail banking customers within each of over 100 countries in scope.

In total, the research investigates 1,572 retail banking units and other lending institutions since many of these groups are active in retail banking in multiple territories. For example, the study analyses the bancassurance operations of Citigroup across a total of 24 countries.

For each country-specific unit, it ascertains which of risk life, critical illness and income protection insurance are offered, the operating model used where they are available (differentiating, for example, between external, joint venture and captive underwriting partners) and the identity of the insurance providers in each case. This dataset is then used to analyse the strategies of each of the 500 retail banking groups in scope for these three product classes. Moreover, the PartnerBASE™ dataset can be employed to analyse the bancassurance agreements identified in terms of both unweighted and weighted partnerships.

The report and PartnerBASE™ dataset that accompanies it can be used in one or more of the following ways:

• gain access to a unique information source that will allow you to arrive at a rapid understanding of the product and partnership strategies for protection-related life insurance of 500 of the world's leading retail banking groups;

• appreciate which insurance providers have been successful in establishing partnerships for protection-related life insurance with these banking groups: what is the relative position of leading underwriters such as Aflac, Allianz, Assurant, AXA, BNP Paribas Cardif, Chubb, Generali, MetLife, MS&AD Holdings and Prudential?

• evaluate opportunities to establish bancassurance partnerships for risk life, critical illness and income protection insurance either in a single country or across multiple territories where banking groups are active;

• benefit from both the high-level conclusions contained within the report and the product-specific detail in the PartnerBASE™, meaning that this is a study that can be used for both strategic and tactical planning.