Core systems

Unpredictability, layers of complexity, yet-to-be-seen risks all play forward into challenges and opportunities for insurers’ social media strategies.

Insurer says new pension-like product now accounts for 20 percent of its annuity sales volume.

Report says worldwide IT spending pertaining to risk functions will increase to more than $74 billion by 2015.

Poor Communication Feeds Life Insurance Sales Gap

If Novarica’s Chad Hersh had a crystal ball, he would have told insurance technology attendees at a technology user conference in Austin this morning that the future is already here.

New report foresees the financial services industry’s risk technology spending hitting $23 billion by 2013.

New Agent App From ING

Insurance Networking News, the independent authority on the latest technology to support insurers' business strategies, kicked off its annual 2011 Vanguards in Insurance (VIP) awards program, in which carriers vote for their industry's top technology providers and these providers in turn nominate the most visionary insurance carriers.

In letter to Sec. Sebelius, governors say tight timetable, funding issues may impact some states’ abilities to comply.

As consumers push back on banking fees, insurer touts its online bank as an alternative.

Russ Bostick, president of Bostick & Associates, took to the stage at Celent’s Creative Disruption—A Core Systems Strategy Workshop in Boston on Nov. 3, 2011, to share his experiences as an insurance IT executive in building successful business cases.

As consumers’ and agents’ service demands increase, insurers will need to improve their websites and portals.

Social Media’s Challenge to Underwriters

Suite to replace multi-system legacy environment with single system for processing of all products.

AIA expresses concern that proposed solvency test may be unduly burdensome.

IIHS Evaluates Minivan Safety

Social media is another form of data that companies must work with regularly, but most businesses have a long road to travel before achieving effective integration.

According to ForeSee’s fourth annual health care benchmark study, health insurance companies, as a whole, provide the least satisfactory websites in the health industry.

Report from PLUS: Tony Blair says changes in our economic and regulatory systems are a given, but should have the core goal of creating a healthy, thriving financial sector.

John Kuhn, Axis, and Jeffrey Klenk, Travelers, recognized.