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InsurTech Futures: Axa launches automatic compensation for late flights product

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The product uses blockchain technology and will be available to UK brokers from 2018.

Axa has developed a product called Fizzy which enables customers to claim compensation for late flights automatically with payments going direct to their bank accounts, Insurance Age can reveal.

The technology is powered by blockchain and Axa said it is the first mass-market product of its kind to be launched in Europe.

Fizzy is currently being tested on flights between Paris Charles De Gaulle and the US but the plan is to bring the product to the UK by 2018.

It is hoped that Axa will then

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