InsurTech bolt announced a collaboration with Salesforce to launch bolt for Salesforce on Salesforce AppExchange, an enterprise marketplace for partner apps and experts.

The collaboration aims to automate the process of insurance quoting, enabling brokers, agents, and account managers to deliver tailored client experiences. The integration also enables FSC customers to quickly compare insurance quotes across multiple carriers to help agents, brokers, and account managers find the insurance policies that best fit their clients’ needs. FSC customers can instantly access a range of products on bolt’s platform across standard, specialty, and non-standard carriers, providing them with more options, tailored insurance solutions, and quotes from a single platform.

By integrating data from Salesforce with bolt’s Data Marketplace, agents can leverage prefilled entries in quoting questionnaires, and with Salesforce’s new offering — Financial Services Cloud for Insurance Brokerages — customers can access a consolidated view of client details and policy information across different insurance carriers, enabling them to provide personalized and tailored support.

bolt for Salesforce is currently available on AppExchange for Sales Cloud and Financial Services Cloud customers.

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Ascend, a financial operations automation platform, announced a strategic partnership with Anzen, a modern wholesale brokerag offering extensive management, cyber, and professional liability markets for executive risk insurance.

This collaboration equips Anzen’s retail brokerage customers across the U.S. with tools to streamline their financial processes while transacting specialty insurance products.

With this partnership, Anzen can now handle payments and disbursements through Ascend’s fully automated platform, which simplifies invoicing, payables, and reconciliation. This aims to reduce manual errors, improve financial accuracy, and enhance operational efficiency across all facets of their business.

At the same time, Anzen’s brokers and AI-powered broking platform works to allow retail brokers to rapidly quote and compare coverage with data-driven insights.

Sources: bolt, Ascend