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ZhongAn Insurance Starts Trading on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange

Our China correspondent reports that the world’s largest online insurance company has raised US$1.5 billion in a successful IPO.

September 28, 2017 By Sherry Zhang Leave a Comment

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The leading Chinese online insurance company, ZhongAn Online Property & Casualty Insurance Co, started trading on the Hong Kong stock exchange earlier today. Its shares jumped to as high as HK$70.50 in early morning trading, compared with the HK$59.70 IPO price, before closing at HK$65.20, still an impressive 9.2% increase. The company raised US$1.5 billion in its Hong Kong IPO making it the largest IPO since April on that exchange.

ZhongAn’s IPO will likely make the company the 4th most valuable fintech company in the world with a market cap of about US$10.4 billion, following the top three fintechs, which are Paypal ($78bn), Ant Financial ($68bn) and Lufax ($18bn).

As the financial research firm Infocast estimated based on information from local brokers, applications for ZhongAn’s share offering last week attracted demand of nearly 400 times the number of shares on offer, which means ZhongAn might be the most popular IPO in the Hong Kong stock market for the past two years.

Peter Renton interviewed the CEO of ZhongAn Insurance, Jeffrey Chen, on the Lend Academy Podcast over the summer. Jeffrey said in the interview that ZhongAn has 492 million insurance customers as of December 31, 2016. That is more than four times that of insurance giant AXA’s customer base (107 million, as of December 31, 2016). By this measure, ZhongAn truly is the world’s largest insurance company. And this is just a four-year old company! [Read more…]

Filed Under: Peer to Peer Lending Tagged With: Hong Kong, Insurtech, IPO, zhongan

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Five Key Takeaways from the Interview with the CEO of ZhongAn Insurance

ZhongAn has more customers than any other insurance company on the planet and they are less than five years old

August 17, 2017 By Peter Renton Leave a Comment

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A couple of weeks ago we published a podcast with the CEO of ZhongAn Insurance, Jeffrey Chen. I want to highlight some of the key takeaways today because I think they are a truly amazing company and some of these highlights might have been lost in translation.

Back in June, IFR, a Thomson Reuters publication, broke the news that ZhongAn had filed an IPO application to the Hong Kong stock exchange targeting a listing as early as the end of 2017, raising up to US$1.5 billion. If the deal goes through, ZhongAn will be the first insurtech company to be listed in Hong Kong. It will also likely become one of the most valuable fintech companies on the planet.

With that background here are the five key takeaways from my interview with Jeffrey Chen.

1. ZhongAn is Backed By Some of China’s Largest Companies

Ping An Insurance is ranked by Forbes as the #1 insurance company in the world. They are an early backer of ZhongAn. The other early backers were Alibaba and Tencent, the two most valuable companies in China as measured by market cap. This would be like a fintech startup in the US receiving initial funding from Apple, Amazon and Berkshire Hathaway. Truly impressive.

2. Their First Product Was a Simple Insurance Offering for Alibaba Merchants

ZhongAn’s first product was called Zhong Le Bao, a type of e-commerce returns insurance. It was launched on Alibaba’s Taobao platform and was aimed at covering merchant shipping losses when consumers were dissatisfied with product purchases. It also allowed merchants to bypass Alibaba’s deposit requirements. [Read more…]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: China, fintech, insurance, zhongan

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