Commercial banking

Ryan Ellis is the president of the Center for a Free Economy.

Mike Sanders is co-founder and CEO of CereTax. He is a tax technology entrepreneur with over 30 years' experience building and scaling successful businesses. In 1998, he co-founded Tax Partners, growing it into the nation's largest sales tax compliance service bureau before its acquisition by Thomson Corporation. In 2010, he co-founded SureTax, the first SaaS tax calculation platform tailored for the telecom and energy sectors, which was later acquired by Wolters Kluwer. 

Vall Herard is the founder and CEO of Saifr, a RegTech incubated within Fidelity Labs. He specializes in the intersection of financial markets and technology and has a mastery of emerging methods like AI, machine learning, blockchain, and micro-services. He has extensive experience in the financial services industry, including FinTech, RegTech, InsurTech, capital markets, and hedge funds.

Shifting towards regulation modernization to keep pace with rapidly evolving technologies.

Tiffany Duncan-Magri is a Senior Regulatory Advisor at Smarsh with 15 years of experience in the financial industry and a strong academic foundation in Marketing (B.S.) and Management (MBA). She specializes in helping financial services firms navigate complex regulatory requirements—translating them into clear, actionable strategies that support both compliance and growth.

Solar and wind energy companies protecting against climate-induced losses look to parametric insurance.

Astrid Malval-Beharry discusses the value of partnerships between carriers and insurtechs, and growth opportunities in today's technology market.

Cuts to NOAA and NWS leave a gap in data collection that makes it harder for insurers relying on the data to accurately identify and mitigate weather and climate risks, regulation and science experts tell NAIC, the association of state regulators.

The Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 is the vehicle with the highest claim frequency for whole-vehicle theft, according to the Insurance Institute of Highway Safety.

Pragya Thakur is a National Board-certified health and wellness coach and master of public health candidate at Boston University.

She writes on wellness topics for publications including The Philadelphia Inquirer and The Law Journal Newsletter and is currently developing a book exploring how small daily shifts can create meaningful change in health and clarity.

Steven B. Goldman is a senior lecturer at MIT and director of the Crisis Management & Business Resiliency and Advanced Business Resiliency courses. He is also an adjunct faculty member at Harvard University, where he lectures on Crisis and Risk Communications, and directs the Radiological Emergency Management program.

Sandra Galletti is the assistant director of MIT's Crisis Management & Business Resiliency and Advanced Business Resiliency courses. She also serves as head of operations and resilience at Tidona Comunicazione in Milan, Italy.

Incorporating AI can help insurers gain a more accurate picture of unseen liabilities associated with underwriting and catastrophic events for clients.

Insurers are embracing strategies that can both predict and prevent loss before it occurs.

Leaders seeing ROI from using AI are already looking towards the next horizon: using the tech as a strategic tool for transformation and modernization.

The state will charge active employees higher salary-based health plan premiums to avoid a near-term $1.3 billion deficit.