Customers earn up to 40% of their premium back in eBucks
FNB has a legacy of being a trusted, innovative provider of financial services, and its award-winning life insurance division FNB Life is living up to these expectations by rapidly transforming life insurance and providing digitally led platform enabled insurance solutions.
This approach to life insurance has seen FNB Life being the only insurance provider in South Africa that uses Home Affairs Data to check for deaths; enabling customers to automatically receive their much-needed insurance pay-outs. To date, this digitally enabled solution has paid out over R150 million proactive claims in the last two years.
The COVID19 pandemic also saw FNB Life pay out in excess of R100 million credit life policies to protect the livelihoods of customers whose income was affected by the pandemic or retrenched. These payments were efficiently disbursed via the bank’s digital channels, providing quicker processing time and safer customer application processes via the App.
FNB Chief Executive, Jacques Celliers says, “This unique platform-based approach has enabled us to make significant strides in becoming the insurance provider of choice to FNB customers and customers who have relationships with other brands within our group and across our ecosystem. In just five years since launching, FNB Life has grown considerably into the FNB Retail base and currently, close to 50% of debit orders from FNB accounts to a life insurer go to FNB Life.”
In recent years, FNB has also disrupted the insurance sector by reducing the angst of manual processes and paper-based policies to enable digitised and easy access to insurance. The successful integration of its award winning eBucks rewards programme into its life insurance solutions provides better value to customers. For instance, customers could earn up to 40% of their premiums back in eBucks on solutions such as FNB Life Simplified and Life Customised insurance products. Similarly, FNB Fusion or Cheque account holders could earn up to 1500 points towards their eBucks reward level each month.
“Based on our interpretation of customers’ needs and the future of life insurance, we are now focused on refining and expanding our digital platform to further reduce barriers to entry and to provide a slick customer experience with contextual solutions. It is our view that a digitised approach represents the future of life insurance that consumers want and will increasingly demand. By coupling our established digital and service leadership with simple but high valuable products as well as fair and affordable premiums, we are confident that we will remain at the forefront of disrupting the insurance landscape,” adds Celliers.
The dynamic approach to insurance has earned FNB Life a series of global and local accolades which include winning BAI global innovation recognition for Most Innovative Solution in Financial Services for Claims Excellence, Top Seller of Insurance via Digital and Fastest Growing life insurer in South Africa from SwissRe. Other accolades include a top 3 ranking for customer satisfaction in the annual SACsi customer satisfaction survey for the last 4 years.
“In general, insurance has always been a grudge purchase with policies that are impossible to understand as a lay person, hidden in piles of paper. The challenges that people have experienced with Covid-19 arguably highlights the value of this instrument in financial planning. Fortunately, FNB Life was launched with the primary aim of disrupting and changing the insurance landscape by driving innovative and digitally led insurance products for the benefit of customers, and we are well advanced to realise that objective,” concludes Celliers.
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