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Healthy gain for Discovery after deal with Softbank
Discovery is launching its own behavioural bank, a world first
Discovery will earn a nifty R780m from a deal involving Japanese investment conglomerate SoftBank. The SoftBank Vision Fund has invested $500m (R7bn) in Cambridge Mobile Telematics (CMT), which provides technology that tracks driving behaviour. Discovery has a stake in CMT, a strategic partner of Discovery Insure since 2014. CMT’s DriveWell platform is a behavioural analytics product that measures driving quality using smartphones and sensors. While the deal reduces Discovery's shareholding in CMT to 10%, it will generate a healthy profit for the group in the year to end-June, a portion of which will be settled in cash. Discovery Insure will keep its partnership with CMT, the company said on Thursday. The SoftBank investment “will accelerate the adoption of CMT's DriveWell platform, fuelling product and market expansion across insurer and safety solutions”, Discovery said. Besides the profit from the deal, forging closer ties to SoftBank seems to be positive for Discovery. The Toky...
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