²¹ There are various definitions of bankassurance.

• By focusing on production, a bankassurer can be defined as a financial group or conglomerate that includes both bank credit origination and insurance underwriting.
• But bankassurance can be limited to distribution agreements only in which a bank merely distributes third-party insurance products in a contractual agreement with an insurer and does not own the underwriting factory.

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