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Touting itself as “ China ’ s first complete online insurance company ”, ZhongAn has claimed the top spot on the Post Insurtech leaderboard . The company ’ s CEO is Jin “ Jeffrey Chen ” but it was initially co-founded by some of the country ’ s most renowned business magnates including Alibaba ’ s Jack Ma , Tencent ’ s Pony Ma and Ping An Insurance ’ s Mingzhe Ma . In 2017 , the Chinese insurer raised $ 1.5bn in its IPO in what the Financial Times described as “ the world ’ s first insurtech public offering .”

APRIL 2019