SCOR Global Life expands health BAM solution across Asia Pacific

French reinsurer SCOR's international life and health subsidiary SCOR Global Life has expanded its insurtech solution, Biological Age Model (BAM), across the wider Asia Pacific region.

The model was created in collaboration with SCOR’s in-house insurtech solution provider Garmin and ReMark. The companies are expanding their partnership into four new APAC markets - China, Hong Kong, Japan and Singapore.

Launched in November 2019, in partnership with Taiwanese insurer Nanshan, BAM is a health and wellness platform for both insurance policyholders and public users.

It combines SCOR’s risk knowledge with wearable health data insights from Garmin to encourage users to lead a healthy life.

Nanshan has already provided over $400 million of critical illness cover to Taiwanese customers.

Brona Magee, SCOR Global Life deputy CEO, said: “As the world is coping with the Covid-19 pandemic, Asia-Pacific is emerging as a model of how to control the spread of the virus. So, this is the perfect market for BAM which is an innovative application for people who want to positively change the way they live and want to improve their health."

"SCOR Global Life is committed to leveraging data, knowledge and technology to build solutions with our clients across the consumer journey, having a real impact on people’s health & wellness,” he added.

Na Jia, ReMark CEO, commented: “We are proud to partner with a local government for the first time and expand our reach in APAC with three leading insurance players. SCOR’s Biological Age Model BAM combined with ReMark’s device-agnostic Good Life app will help transform the relationships between organisations and consumers as they find alignment in proactively managing health & wellness.”

Jörn Watzke, Garmin Health senior director, added: “We are excited that Garmin is part of the journey of this exciting InsurTech innovation. The Biological Age Model BAM has proven to be a new health metric that users love to engage with every day. Its potential and ability to add value are much wider than the insurance industry. We look forward to more organisations and consumers engaging with this fun initiative.”