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2.  MetLife announced its second class of nine companies selected to participate in the MetLife
Digital Accelerator powered by Techstars®.
 Based in the newly built met.X incubator on MetLife’s Global Technology Campus in Cary,
North Carolina, the accelerator connects startups with MetLife leaders and Techstars mentors
for an intensive 13-week program focused on fast-tracking technologies with the potential to
transform the insurance industry.
 “If a solution can improve our customer experience and tackle real business challenges or
opportunities, we then look to supersize it. The result is a positive collision of industrial scale
and innovation speed. And for a company like MetLife, scale matters, as it's a key
differentiator for us.” – Greg Baxter, MetLife Chief Digital Officer
Nine Tech Startups Vie for Partnerships & Scale in
MetLife’s Intensive 13-week Business ‘Boot Camp’

3.  U.S. insurer MetLife Inc will sell its Hong Kong operations to FWD, the
insurance company owned by tycoon Richard Li.
 The deal is the latest in a series of acquisitions FWD has made in the
region, and comes after MetLife shelved an earlier attempt to sell its Hong
Kong business worth over $500 million to a mainland Chinese buyer who
failed to meet funding commitments.
MetLife to sell Hong Kong insurance business to FWD

4.  MetLifeMET, the largest player in a $2.7 trillion life insurance industry, recently
announced a trial run of a completely revamped claims process.
 Blockchain, the technology underpinning cryptocurrency, will be utilized by MetLife
in this significant procedural change.
 The company may be using the Ethereum blockchain to redo its life insurance
claims network. This project is being run by and was developed at MetLife’s
incubator LumenLab in Singapore. LumenLab is partnering with Singapore Press
Holdings and NTUC Income for the trial run.
MetLife Looks to Utilize Blockchain

5.  According to Zia Zaman, CIO of MetLife Asia and CEO of LumenLab, it was important to
utilize blockchain technology for three key reasons. First, he said “We think there are benefits
from a security point of view”.
 Second, he noted that there is a lot that they can learn from DLT from experimenting with it,
as opposed to a traditional database. Specifically, he noted that “If you try technology that
has been around for twenty years you’re not going to learn as much as if you try it with a
decentralized system like DLT, and that’s advantageous because we are realizing that there
is a lower cost of implementation for this system versus the other way.”
 The third reason, and perhaps the most important, is that DLT systems are built for multiparty
participation. “As a data provider, if you use DLT, it is much easier to add another node.”
MetLife CIO on Blockchain

6.  MetLife, Inc. (MET) announced that Patrik Ringstroem will join the
company in July as Chief Strategy Officer, reporting to President and CEO
Michel Khalaf.
 Ringstroem will lead the team responsible for MetLife’s global strategy to
help drive top- and bottom-line financial performance.
 He succeeds Rebecca Tadikonda, now head of strategic growth markets
for the company’s Asia region.
Patrik Ringstroem to Join MetLife as Chief Strategy Officer

7.  Matthew Mosca was named Senior Managing Director and Global Head of
the Institutional Client Group at MetLife Investment Management.
 Mr. Mosca replaces David Rothenberg.
 Mr. Mosca is responsible for MetLife Investment Management's
institutional client strategy globally. He will also oversee client relationship
management and consultant relations.
MetLife Investment Management names Global Head of
the Institutional Client Group

8.  Metlife Inc said Chief Risk Officer Ramy Tadros will succeed Michel Khalaf as President of
the insurer’s U.S. business.
 Tadros, who joined in September 2017, will be replaced by Marlene Debel, who currently
serves as the Executive Vice President and Head of Retirement & Income Solutions (RIS).
 Graham Cox, Executive Vice President of Global Risk Management (GRM), will succeed
Debel.
 Khalaf will move on to become Metlife’s new Chief Executive Officer later this year. He will
replace Steven Kandarian.
 All appointments will be effective May 1.
Metlife appoints Ramy Tadros President of U.S. business

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