Published by Chelsea Frost • 17 May 2021
We’re excited to announce that Telkom’s digital insurance website is live! This self-service website is powered by Root’s insurance infrastructure and allows customers to purchase insurance policies directly online.
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Published by Dewald Müller • 6 April 2021
With the world moving to digital and customer expectations changing rapidly, Telkom partnered with Root to fast-track their progress to running a digital insurance business.
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Published by Candice Grobler • 13 October 2020
We chatted with Nicola Jandrell about how businesses can determine if and where they fit into the insurance industry.
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Published by Candice Grobler • 19 August 2020
After a successful POC with Root, Mr Price migrated 3 million insurance policies to the Root platform.
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Published by Louw Hopley • 23 July 2020
We're finally wrapping up our programmable card private beta and shifting all focus to our insurance mission. Thanks for the great journey!
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Published by Root Team • 30 June 2020
Metropolitan just launched their first fully digital insurance product, and it’s powered by Root! We are stoked about the partnership we’ve built with Metropolitan over the last few months.
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Published by Louw Hopley • 19 June 2020
Getting started in the insurance industry doesn’t have to be daunting. Here is a step-by-step guide of what you’ll need to do, and some suggestions of who to speak to.
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Published by Root Team • 26 May 2020
The insurance industry is often criticised for the slow rate at which it is innovating. Guardrisk, South Africa’s largest cell-captive insurer, has chosen Root as technology partner to drive rapid innovation for their clients.
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Published by Root Team • 20 May 2020
Shackleton’s insurance products are configured on Root and accessible via battle-tested, real-time APIs. This means they can easily enable distribution partners and grow sales.
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Published by Dewald Müller • 7 May 2020
Mr Price has been using Root for more than a year now, tapping into all the benefits brought about by an API-first, end-to-end insurance platform. Their claims team, in particular, has reaped the benefits - increasing efficiency and allowing for a seamless transition to remote working.
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Published by Louw Hopley • 5 May 2020
As an insurance provider, you are required to screen customers against a public sanctions list at various touchpoints. To help you stay compliant, we’ve released a new extension on Root that provides you with fully automated, real-time sanction screening, out of the box.
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Published by Brian Tait • 21 April 2020
A common constraint for businesses in this age of social distancing is the inability to sell policies digitally. Most insurance companies will take months to implement digital fulfillment. At Root, we can get you going within 2 weeks.
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Published by Louw Hopley • 9 April 2020
The Root team is fully operational with no disruption to our services or support. We’re geared up to help SA’s insurance industry with the enabling of digital sales and fulfillment, the launching of new channels, and cash-collections. Talk to us!
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Published by Root Team • 20 March 2020
Digital channels have become one of the best solutions to the distribution problem. They enable you to speak directly to customer needs, while offering a much better customer experience.
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Published by Louw Hopley • 13 December 2019
We’ve had a massive year at Root! Here’s an overview of what went down and some of the milestones we’ve reached.
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Published by Dewald Müller • 23 August 2019
Guardrisk launched a chatbot to enable WhatsApp as a new customer-first digital channel. Here’s how they did it.
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Published by Dewald Müller • 8 July 2019
Innovators have been locked out of the insurance industry. I'm sharing my experience on how we've created the tools to change this narrative.
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