Data and information management

2011 inductees to be unveiled today at RIMS Annual Conference.

Wyde system to be used for group life and disability income insurance administration, end-to-end solution to support growth.

North American and Bermudan insurance companies received an updated enterprise risk management opinion from Standard & Poor’s Rating Services, the company reports.

Joseph Reifel, partner at A.T. Kearney, discusses suitability, cost and adoption hurdles.

ACORD committee leaders are on a mission to streamline the development of insurance technology standards to better meet the industry's challenges.

As opportunities to consolidate hardware emerge, and evolving business demands impact insurance data centers, an architectural reset may be in order.

What Impact is Mobility Having on Insurers?

2010 revenue represents a 13.4% increase from 2009 revenue, states Gartner.

As life insurers accumulate more longevity risk and face investment management challenges, opportunities for growth abound.

In this economic landscape, insurers are looking for solutions that assist measurable achievement of operational goals, and position the company well for profitable growth.

Restructuring, which includes hiring 100 in “key business areas” has overall goal of placing resources in most effective areas, says insurer.

Amazon's recent snafu resulting in outages among its EC2 customers' sites raises the question of how insurers should steel themselves for such a situation?

Social media may still be thought of as a separate emerging technology by insurers, but soon it will be the norm.

SEC says controversial section 404(b) is not prohibitively burdensome to mid-sized companies.

FINRA last year advised brokers that social media content falls under regulatory requirements for record-keeping.

Technology should enable complete automation of underwriting to the point where getting insured is a simple plug-and-play process, but will that happen?

Chevrolet Volt and Nissan Leaf earn highest safety ratings from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety.

Business intelligence spending slated to increase in 2011; demand is up, resources are down, according to study.

While the number of records breached dropped from 2009, the overall number of breaches rose to its highest-ever level.

Oracle is throwing some cold water on the NFC hype; says tech’s performance too slow to be workable as an instant enabler of contact-less payments.