1.0 Introduction

Globally Insurance and Reinsurance markets play a crucial role in transferring risk. They provide safety and security through financial support against particular events where there is a fear of loss. Orchestration of business in Insurance markets is complex, highly collaborative  and competitive in nature. High administrative costs, treat of disruption from tech giants and the need to upgrade an aging operating model, has urged the industry to think strategically about collaborative technologies and standards.

Segments of Insurance market has seen limited success in adoption of Distributed ledger technology. Some unique challenges in adoption are:

• Ageing standards.
• Operational deployment at scale across multiple organisations.
• Integration into existing enterprise infrastructure as well as two-way bridges to off-chain data sources.
• Further, the change has to be implemented in a heavily regulated environment consisting of multiple stakeholders from a variety of functions like legal, IT security, compliance and third-party risk control.

It is the aim of the Insurance Markets SIG to bring together practitioners from all affected functions to discuss various implementation aspects of the technology relating to Hyperledger based DLTs. This needs collaboration between business and technology. Both groups need to learn from each other as well as find common ground to solve problems. The mission of the Insurance Market SIG is to provide such a platform and a safe-space for surfacing solutions and challenges.