London, UK, 15 August 2024: – Cytora, the leading digital risk processing platform, has partnered with innovative environmental data specialist, GeoSmart Information.
The integration of GeoSmart Information’s data into Cytora’s digital risk processing platform will mean insurers have access to almost complete flood and climate risk data, enabling more comprehensive risk evaluation and decision-making.
GeoSmart Information specialises in developing and publishing innovative flood risk maps and data, characterising flood risk down to an individual property level. With flooding a key risk factor, and increases in risk due to climate change and the greater number of storms affecting homes and businesses, such information is more valuable than ever to underwriters in property insurance. It will help to inform insurers with risk selection, claims certification, and pricing flood risk premiums.
Cytora’s partnership with GeoSmart Information is the latest in a series of partnerships that Cytora has signed as part of its mission to build one of the world’s most comprehensive data ecosystems for insurers. It also follows a period of significant growth for Cytora including agreeing a major collaboration with Chubb and the launch of the latest enhancement to its platform which leverages Large Language Models (LLMs) alongside Cytora’s proprietary AI to bring a new level of efficiency to risk assessment, underwriting and claim management processes.
Juan de Castro, COO at Cytora, said: “At Cytora, we are committed to empowering insurers with the most advanced tools for assessing and managing risks. Our partnership with GeoSmart Information and the integration of their data into our platform is a testament to this commitment. At a time when there is heightened uncertainty as a result of climate change, it equips insurers with a powerful resource for understanding and mitigating flood and other environmental-related risks, ultimately helping them provide superior insurance solutions."
Mark Fermor, Director at GeoSmart Information, said: “With flooding the biggest natural peril we face in the UK, and risks doubling this generation, it is vital that insurers access more complete flood risk data to inform pricing and underwriting and risk mitigation decisions. We are delighted to be working with Cytora to make our more complete property-level FloodSmart Analytics data accessible through their leading-edge platform for the insurance industry, helping to ensure an enhanced and faster decision-making process for Cytora’s customers when it comes to managing such risks effectively.”
About Cytora
Cytora is the configurable platform that enables commercial insurers to process risks at greater efficiency and accuracy. Cytora digitizes every incoming risk, augments them with additional data sources, evaluates them against multiple rules, including appetite and priority rules, and routes them to downstream systems for automated or manual underwriting.
About GeoSmart Information
GeoSmart Information is a leading, independent provider of high quality flood risk data and analytics. Data as a service with multi-metric loss modelling predictions of flood depth, probability, with risk indices and climate change impacts. GeoSmart enables enhanced underwriting decisions from strategic to individual customer interactions.
