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Insurers and agents may want to keep an eye on how their financial services brethren are serving their clients via the mobile space.

No going back from a wireless world; research says 2011 is tipping point of consumer devices in the enterprise.

Fitch and S&P react to AIG’s $4.1B charge for Q4; S&P clarifies Allstate’s rating after announcement that it's exiting the banking business; A.M. Best, Moody’s and S&P assign ratings to CNA’s forthcoming senior unsecured notes.

The Dutch financial services firm reportedly is considering IPOs in Europe and the United States for its insurance operations; struck two deals to divest its real estate investment management business.

Computer’s appearance on “Jeopardy!” offers glimpse of future business functionality.

The CMO Council researched the misalignment, and found isolation and mutual distrust in both camps.

In the first three quarters of last year, bank holding companies tallied $9.73 billion in insurance brokerage fee income—up 7% from the same period in 2009.

The administration will issue a "financial crisis responsibility fee" of $30B on institutions with more than $50B of assets that took TARP money to be paid over the next 10 years.

Just in time for Valentine’s Days, a study finds 29% of American drivers have engaged in romantic contact while driving.

To navigate through the changing market, insurers will think, act and spend differently in 2011.

Insurer using iPipeline’s cloud to integrate iGO e-App data into back-end systems to speed processing.

The U.S. property and casualty market appears to be experiencing a scene from the movie “Groundhog Day,” operating in a market where little has changed from a year ago, notes A. M. Best in its 2011 Review & Preview report for the insurance industry. How P&C carriers may respond, however, reflects a market where change will be mandatory.

Broker-dealers and advisers must not only learn to appreciate social media, but be willingness to actively use it in order to woo this client base.

MedRisk's new RIBI unit is set to roll out a new reporting platform featuring state-of-the-art graphics and outcomes analytics.

Allstate, Aon, CNA, Humana all released their year-end numbers.

VPs of IT will see salary spikes, while CIOs and database administrators’ salaries will remain flat.

What the SEC says and thinks it wants and what will most likely materialize figures to be a much different story.

As Mubarak's regime teeters, there are plenty of risk management considerations for insurers.

Fastest growth rate in three years; hardware spending on storage, mobile devices and network equipment led the drive, says IDC.

Federal panel laments doing little to affect the way corporate America pays its top talent.