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Julian Teicke plans nothing less than the digital revolution of the insurance industry with wefox. He says: "Insurance has degenerated into a product that confuses and scares people. And wefox is supposed to change that." How he and his team intend to achieve this, why the work culture at wefox plays a major role, what his most important lessons as founder are and why he never actually wanted to work in the insurance industry – he reveals all this and more in the interview with the Bitkom podcast Strg-Alt-Entf.

The insurance industry has been in a state of global change due to digitalisation for several years now. Innovation and disruption are in many cases not driven forward by traditional companies, but rather through cooperations with startups or non-branch players. In order to further increase the pace in Germany and to build new bridges, the InsurTech Hub Munich and Insurlab Germany will cooperate with the digital association Bitkom.

Here we are again: The Digital Finance Conference invites you to experience the future of the financial world. On 27 & 28 May 2020, the #digifin20 community will meet again in Berlin to discuss the most exciting trends and innovations of the banking and insurance sector.

Are crypto currencies a way to pay quickly and cheaply on the Internet or are they primarily a speculative object for financial jugglers? German citizens see both opportunities and disadvantages with digital currencies such as Bitcoin, Etherum & Co. This is the result of a representative survey of 1,004 German citizens aged 16 and over commissioned by the digital association Bitkom.