Insurance BPO Vendor Profile – HCL Tech BPO

With the strategic acquisition of Liberata Financial Services, regulated in UK by The Financial Services Authority (FSA), HCL has the ability to offer comprehensive end-to-end administrative services and customer services to Life & Pensions Insurers.  Key Service offerings include Agent licensing, New business/underwriting, Policy Administration, Account Administration, Commissions, Claims management and actuarial services.

HCL Practice Highlights: Top 5 Life & Pensions BPO service provider in UK, Platform based BPO service provider for Life & Pensions market, Proven capability to offer actuarial services, Dedicated Insurance Competency Center headed by Insurance experts. Gartner rates HCL’s Insurance Outsourcing Practice as “Mature” in BPO for Life and Property & Casualty Insurance

Only company to win the “Excellence in Insurance Education” award by LOMA for the 5th consecutive year. Maximum number of Advanced LOMA certified resources in practice. Key certifications are LOMA (FLMI, ACS, ARA…), AICPCU (CPCU, INS), CII (London) examinations and III-India (FIII).

HCL’s insurance practice is built on strong domain expertise with proven application and process optimization capabilities across the Quote-to-Claim cycle. HCL’s investment in product assets, intellectual property and dedicated Insurance Solution Development Centers, a strategic ecosystem of partners and strong integrated business operations capabilities help insurers address myriad of business challenges.

More than 10 clients & 8+ years experience in P&C space. FSA regulated Insurance Business Unit in UK. 1200+ people manage more than 4.6 million policies for marquee clients.

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Insurance BPO Vendor Profile – WNS

WNS insurance outsourcing service offerings extend across the insurance value chain of Property and Casualty, Life, Pensions, and Annuity. Services related to Product Development, Sales & Distribution, Policy Administration, Claims Administration, Analytics, Finance & Accounting and Customer Care.

With a dedicated team of over 7,500 professionals for the insurance industry, WNS manages over 40 million claims per year helping insurers streamline their claims operations. WNS recently positioned industry 'leader' for Insurance BPO in Everest Group's  Insurance BPO PEAK Matrix.

In January 2012, Australian insurance major Suncorp gave majority portion of the order worth $220 million to WNS for end-to-end insurance outsourcing for a period of five to seven years.

WNS won a $228-million contract from UK-based Aviva in 2008 for all in-scope services related to Aviva's life & general insurance businesses in the UK and Canada. Based on the anticipated service requirements of these businesses, WNS estimates Master Services Agreement could generate $1 billion in revenues over the life of the contract. WNS also benefits from a recently signed AGS contract for approximately 580 employees with Aviva's Irish subsidiary, Hibernian.

In June 2012, WNS has acquired South Africa-based Fusion Outsourcing Services in an all cash deal of over £10 million or $15.5 million. Fusion currently employs about 1,500 people and the centre currently offers high-end voice services with plans to start financial, accounting and insurance services.

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Insurance BPO Vendor Profile – TCS BPO

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has been designated as a leader in insurance BPO in the Everest Group report – PEAK Matrix. TCS is dominant in UK market through its subsidiary Diligenta.

Diligenta, UK FSA regulated subsidiary was established in 2005 to specialize in the provision of business process outsourcing (BPO) services for the UK life & pensions industry. In 2006, Diligenta secured its first £486 million deal with the Phoenix Group (formerly known as the Pearl Group). Since then, Diligenta has secured a number of new clients in the Life and Pensions sector and today administers circa 5 million policies.

TCS has over three decades of experience, partnering with over 90 regional and global insurers to achieve improved operational efficiencies, reduced costs and customer / partner satisfaction and  services span all insurance segments - life, healthcare, property and casualty (general insurance) as well as annuities, pensions and retirement, and span the complete life cycle.

Recently concluded a multi-year, multi-million dollar transformation project at Phoenix Group, the UK’s largest specialist consolidator of closed life funds that involved replacing and decommissioning 11 major life and pension administration systems, hundreds of peripheral systems and migrating more than four million policies and customer records, across multiple brands and product lines into TCS BaNCS Insurance.

TCS won its second-biggest outsourcing contract worth $2.2 billion from UK based pension firm Friends Life, based on a model wherein the company will be paid for each insurance transaction and will add another 3.2 million policies. 

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Global Insurance BPO Market 2012

The global insurance BPO market has been valued at US$2 billion by the end of 2012. and segment grew by 17% annually. Third-party Business Process Services (BPS) in the insurance industry currently a US$6-8 billion market growing at ~17% annually.

Post 2008 Financial crisis there had been a stable growth in the number of contracts signed in both the Life & Pensions (L&P) and Property & Casualty (P&C) lines. In fact the contracts almost doubled in number when compared to 2008-2009 when the financial crisis had a severe impact on the insurance companies. BPS in insurance rebounded with 53 new, publicly-announced contracts signed in 2010-2011.

United States and United Kingdom are the primary markets for Indian Insurance BPO vendors, but the market is also going global and activity is picking up in other regions of the world too. Asia Pacific showed significantly increased activity over the last one to two years .

Insurers expect BPO as a key tool to cut costs, improve operations, and manage regulations. Service providers are differentiating their offerings through better technology, strong delivery capabilities, and the ability to serve niche segments.

The 2012 insurance BPO PEAK Matrix has three:

1. Leaders (EXL Service, TCS, and WNS)

2. Major Contenders (Genpact, HCL, Infosys, and Wipro)

3. Emerging Players (Capgemini, Cognizant, and Serco) 

4. Leaders control 60% of the overall insurance BPO market in revenue terms with healthy growth rate.

5. EXL Service is dominant player in the U.S. BPO insurance market.

6. TCS dominant in the UK BPO insurance market

Industry-specific BPO accounts for over 60% of BPO contracts in insurance, spanning product development and business acquisition, new business, policy servicing and reporting, and claims processing.

Leaders have a wide scale of operations and have a significant advantage over Major Contenders and Emerging Players. Capabilities of the major players differ not only in terms of the variance of the service offerings but also in terms of the Geographies they are servicing successfully.

Leaders and Major Contenders have built delivery capabilities from various different locations and this global delivery presence is a big competitive advantage when compared to Emerging Players.

The five themes identified Everest group are Platform-based BPO offerings, increasing focus on the U.S. closed books BPO market, inclusion of complex processes in insurance BPO contracts, higher degree of on shoring, and regulatory and risk management BPO. 

Source: Everest Group.

 1. https://research.everestgrp.com/Product/11922  

2. https://research.everestgrp.com/Product/11946

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