China’s Online Insurer ZhongAn Launches Blockchain and AI Incubator
As China continues applying the pressure of becoming the number one FinTech country, ZhongAn, an online property and casualty insurance company has announced the creation of an incubator designed to focus on blockchain and artificial intelligence (AI), further boosting the country’s intentions of becoming number one. Founded in 2013 by Ant Financial, which was one of the four Chinese companies that made it in the top five annual FinTech 100 report this year, the China-based online insurance company will explore the technology through its ‘ABCD’ plan, which will focus on four areas: AI,....
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