Core systems

Mobile platform designed to provide web payment functionality and electronic document management services.

Rebranding effort takes effect as company expects to gross proceeds around $600 million through public offering.

Managing general agency turns to EagleEye in an attempt to gain visibility of its critical business performance.

Configurable app blocks network connectivity; separate “What If Calculator” demonstrates the impact of tickets, accidents, moving and changing vehicles on insurance rates.

The life insurer's chairman and CEO spoke frankly before regulators, saying the "traditional business of life insurance does not pose systemic risk."

While reinsurance renewal rates were stable as of April 1, Guy Carpenter reports that traditional and alternative capital sources are converging to change the marketplace.

While reauthorization of The Terrorism Risk Insurance Act (TRIA) is likely to receive strong support in Congress, success may come very late in the process, predicts Robert Gordon, SVP, policy development and research, for the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America (PCI) during the National Association of Insurance Commissioners’ (NAIC) Spring National Meeting in Houston yesterday.

Riverside to use SunGard’s enterprise accounting system for investment and compliance, in addition to accounting.

Delivering easily accessible, multimedia resources that are broken into small packages is key to engaging and educating individuals, according to new research.

Fitch outlines the financial figures of life insurers and warns of macroeconomic headwinds in 2013.

iPipeline, a provider of on-demand marketing, selling and processing technology for insurers, distributors and producers, announced American Equity Investment Life Insurance Co. has selected the Content Partner platform to aggregate and distribute annuity product information and forms to 1,200 distributors via the iPipeline distributor network.

Americans are relying on technology to help with their personal finance needs, but most (60 percent) use it to simplify and automate financial tasks such as banking and bill payment, according to a recent survey conducted by Northwestern Mutual's financial literacy website, TheMint.org.

Insurer fears negative publicity if the former AIG CEO continues lawsuit against the federal government.

U.S. commercial lines insurance underwriting performance also improved moderately last year, according to Fitch’s review of initial industry financial results for 2012, indicating that a market turn is taking hold, citing a second year of material premium growth and signs that loss ratios reached a cyclical peak in 2011 as indicators.

Nearly all claims solutions are noted as offering the 14 basic kinds of functionality, as well as many of the 11 kinds of advanced and additional functionalities.

For the first time since the dot com bust, Janco’s metrics show that hiring by CIOs is at a standstill — there is a high degree of uncertainty in the economic climate.

Insurer invests in policy admin overhaul, including underwriting, billing and claims management.

Actions against four large mortgage insurers is only the beginning as the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau looks to squash deals between reinsurers and mortgage insurers.

Bad driving habits and trends are diminishing among teens, according to a new report on teen driver safety released by The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and State Farm. From 2008 to 2011 the number of teen passengers killed in crashes not wearing seat belts decreased 23 percent, the number of teen passengers driven by a peer who had been drinking declined 14 percent, and 30 percent fewer teen passengers were killed in crashes involving a teen driver.

Commercial rates increased 5 percent, while personal lines prices were up 4 percent last month, according to MarketScout’s monthly Market Barometer.