Data security

Social network analysis can help insurers understand networks often connected to criminal behavior.

To better manage risk, reinsurers are turning to increasingly sophisticated technologies and models.

Hard economic times are invariably busy ones for the foes of insurance fraud. Incorporating more unstructured data, carriers are fine-tuning predictive analytics for fraud detection.

SOA is the way many companies, including insurers, are now choosing to move forward due to its business agility, scalability and return on investment.

S&P contends that because macroeconomic conditions have impacted prime mortgage insurance books, it is placing the ratings for several mortgage insurers, including Genworth and United Guaranty, on CreditWatch with negative implications.

Forrester talked to 70 North American insurers about their hardware and infrastructure investment plans and found that they're very concerned about risks associated with cloud computing and virtualization.

Despite this year’s challenges, insurance companies will see opportunities in 2010, predicts LIMRA’s CEO.

The revised bill, introduced late Tuesday, would give the Federal Reserve Board power to oversee systemically important companies, and beef up a proposed interagency council to advise the central bank.

S&P changes HUB’s outlook to negative, while A.M. Best affirms American Physicians Insurance Co.’s financial strength and issuer credit ratings.

The U.S. Government Accountability Office tells federal agencies what property/casualty insurers and reinsurers have been warning for months: Prepare for climate change effects.

State insurance office publishes pay-as-you-drive policies for insurers.

The product, intended for U.S. life and annuity enterprises, combines CSC's insurance data model with Towers Perrin's consulting experience and financial modeling software.

Anant Bhalla is responsible for corporate finance, corporate insurance, treasury operations, liquidity management, enterprise risk and capital management, economic capital and pricing oversight.

With the goal of promoting financial stability among financially interdependent institutions, the partners will study the need and optimal design of a systemic risk regulator.

Conseco receives a boost from ratings agencies but Michigan Blues slide.

Reports indicate that revenue support is not going to come from a hardening market.

New York Life, Conseco, Assured Guaranty and five other insurers see activity from various rating agencies.

Insurers are betting on DWD laws that will prohibit drivers from using cell phones while driving, but a new study says that while laws may not matter, technology might.

Insurers must encrypt or mask sensitive data that leaves production environments regardless of its destination.

Confidence and demand gives analytics technology a boost.