Liv: An Insurance Policy for Millennials’s Smartphones
FACTS
- Emirates NBD launched their mobile bank for Millennials, Liv, in 2017. Since then, many partnerships have been announced to rollout additional services.
- Most recently, they teamed up with RSA Insurance, on featuring mobile insurance plans for Liv customers (covering devices up to 2 years old). The subscription processes are paper-free, through the Liv app.
- Contract management issues and claims are also entirely dealt with from the app.
- Customers are protected against:
- Drops
- Breakages
- Liquid damage
- Fire damage
- Out-of-warranty breakdowns
- Theft
- Liv also includes a rewards system for insured customers who never file any claims. Liv sends them a 20% cashback on the premium paid at the end of the policy term if they agree to renew their insurance policy.
Key Figures (2018)
- 150,000 customers
- 10,000 new customers/month
- 5 customers out of 6 are Millennials
- 25 partners end-2018
CHALLENGES
- Designing a wide range of insurance offers. In line with Emirates NBD’s ambitions, Liv’s mobile insurance plan is one example out of a long series of specific policies later to be launched.
- Addressing Millennials’ needs. This mobile insurance policy is intended to meet your customers’ needs as, in Liv’s own words, “Millennials can’t live without their phones”.
- Securing customer loyalty on a niche market. As their insurance offer also builds on a rewards system, Liv relies on these policies to secure their customers’ loyalty.
MARKET PERSPECTIVE
- Liv launched a year ago and has been growing fast since. It was designed to meet specific needs identified by Emirates NBD among their young customers: reliance on social media to carry out a certain number of transactions (ex.: money transfers), apps for sharing expenses, tracking transactions in real time, customised apps based on the customers’ interests.