Data and information management

New version attempts to enhance the capabilities of insurers handling data conversions.

Consultancy provides a forum for chief risk officers to discuss trending practices and hot-button issues in risk management.

Ken Fraser will also lead the company's international insurance practice and global broker network.

Demand is outweighing supply for data experts who can connect the dots behind big data usage, but where will a growing supply come from?

AIR to provide catastrophe modeling services to support FM Global risk management activities.

MetaScale today announced it is incorporating the Kognitio Analytical Platform as a complement to Hadoop as part of its new SaaS-based offering.

Recent survey recognizes that security extends well beyond IT among best-practice companies.

ALIS designed to tackle high-load scenarios of a database containing more than 800,000 active policies.

Insurance Networking News and Celent released INN’s sixth annual technology solution provider ranking for the insurance industry last night at an awards event held at the ACORD LOMA Insurance Systems Forum in Orlando.

System includes pre-loaded business rules engine and builds on CSC’s claims and risk management expertise.

Collaboration will progress with a proof of concept describing areas where ACORD data standards may map to XBRL insurance solvency and other business information taxonomies.

All three implementations will be deployed via private cloud.

Cloud is on everyone's radar—but not yet in everyone's data center.

These statistics surrounding disability insurance and public awareness from Sun Life’s recent report, titled “Will workers in America hope to dodge the bullet, remain blind to the risks or simply hide?” despite becoming familiar sights this month, remain startling given another fact cited by the report: Medical problems contribute to roughly half of all personal bankruptcies and home foreclosures in the United States.

The growth of countries such as China, Brazil and India will inevitably lead to more business being written, and that will need new capital to support it, and more insurers, according to Lloyd’s of London Chairman John Nelson. “The challenge we have is to grow the Lloyd’s footprint into the emerging growth countries,” he said in a statement on the company’s website. “There’s an opportunity for Lloyd’s and for the United States, in the high-growth economies. What I hope to see is a situation where brokers are extending their networks, picking up new business across the world and placing it at Lloyd’s.”

ACORD leadership discusses the organization’s achievements and ongoing efforts. 

Using the platform, the insurer was able to add new features such as an urgent care finder and information access for non-members.

With Don Desiderato's exit, the research and advisory firm pulls Transamerica’s chief architect to fill the gap.

Two new studies show that the embrace of existing technologies, such as telematics, could soon have a dramatic effect on the insurance industry.

Latest version aims to improve functionality and flexibility of comprehensive risk management and compliance software.