Innovation intelligence brief
Innovation intelligence brief
The Allianz captive insurance blockchain prototype, built on the Blockchain framework Hyperledger Fabric 1.0, focuses on two types of insurance policies – Professional Indemnity and Property – for a captive insurance program with local subsidiaries in the US, China and Switzerland. The prototype looks at three common process flows in the captive insurance cycle – annual policy renewals, premium payments and claims submission and settlement. It translates these processes into the distributed ledger environment decreasing the time from start to policy, policy to premium and claim to settlement.
What became of it
Blocked · Low confidence · Last verified 2026-10-17
Research is blocked: there was not enough public evidence to establish what became of this innovation. Nothing below should be read as a verified 2026 status.
As catalogued
A 2017 proof of concept by AGCS and Allianz Risk Transfer, built with EY, Ginetta and Citi on Hyperledger Fabric 1.0, that automated annual renewals, premium payments and claims settlement for a multinational captive programme (property and professional indemnity) with subsidiaries in the US, China and Switzerland.
2026 reality
The November 2017 announcement is still published on commercial.allianz.com, but the original blockchain topic page returns HTTP 404 (October 2026). No evidence was found that the prototype went into production or continued after 2017.
No sourced account of what happened after the November 2017 prototype announcement was found; all located coverage dates from the launch.
an early incumbent DLT pilot for multinational captive programmes; the same administrative pain point was later addressed by vendor platforms rather than by an Allianz-run blockchain.
REVIEW · Re-searched for 2018-2019 production or follow-up coverage; only the November 2017 launch coverage surfaced, so the record stays BLOCKED. Added the ART/EY/Citi context to the open questions.
Documented evidence
Press Release
Features
Features
Research interpretation
Classification paths, as catalogued, connect this example to the original insurance digitalization research models.