Data security

As we look forward to a new year, the broad technology shifts bound to impact the insurance industry are already taking shape.

The focus for insurance industry innovations in 2011 includes business analytics and data warehousing, cloud-enabled software-as-a-service and new mobility solutions.

Insurers on the hook for $36 billion—a 34% jump from last year, Swiss Re report says.

Insurers now have until December 3 to cast votes for their top technology solution providers.

Health care reforms, competition may slow growth and profitability, yet insures can insulate themselves from further damage, says report.

Information on 1.22 million members was contained on AvMed's two unencrypted, stolen laptops.

Nations are vying for the exascale computing crown, but are we prepared to handle the speeds at which our computers will function?

ReMetrica is designed to enable reinsurers to enhance their internal models and deliver accounting reports for regulators.

A study by a UK insurance aggregator revealed some possibly shocking results.

Unlike their CFO brethren in other industries, financial services execs' expectations still tempered by economy and regulatory issues.

As November 30 deadline approaches, insurer voting continues as INN and Celent partner on INN’s 5th annual ranking of tech solution providers.

New report examines investment challenges for insurers in the wake of the financial crisis.

Private clouds still present the same maintenance and hardware costs that companies have been struggling with all along, say some industry analysts.

S&P revised its outlook on Allstate from to stable from negative, Moody’s affirms Gen Re, Fitch affirms Humana, A.M. Best upgrades Zurich and its subsidiaries.

The experience rating plan (ERP) will provide carriers with a way to reflect how a risk's loss experience compares to an industry benchmark.

Many in financial services worried the term will give the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau license to crack down wherever it sees fit.

Report of Internet traffic hijacking highlights danger.

Willis Re has established a long-term relationship to develop solutions for risk scenarios using services from SpatialKey, a provider of SaaS-based location intelligence technology. The reinsurance broker will use SpatialKey to help its insurance clients better assess the composition of their portfolios and identify their exposure to natural and man-made hazards, including hurricanes, terrorism, tornados, and wildfires, the solution provider says.

Banks seeking laundry list of carve-outs that would give financial institutions so many exceptions from the rule that it might as well not exist at all.

Moody's says the industry regained some of the ground it lost in early 2009.