Data security

Insurers have two choices when it comes to conducting business in multiple countries: deploy a single core app cross-borders, or implement a dedicated core app in each market.

Government Accountability Office's study recommends that a new proposed systemic-risk regulator be specifically tasked with limiting leverage

Testifying before Congress, association chief urges use of a scalable system to measure risk companies pose.

After issuing a formal white paper on the subject last week, Travelers Companies Inc. also issued a request—to let an independent federal commission regulate rates for hurricane wind coverage.

In the heat of the summer across the wide open fields of middle-America, the National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies’ (NAMIC) Agricultural Risk Inspection School opened its classrooms this week to insurance loss control specialists, underwriters, managers and supervisors.

Hannover Re, Munich Re and Manulife are just some of the insurers that recently saw ratings actions from A.M. Best.

New Broad Form PLUS+ policy provides extensive coverage for a changing marketplace.

Another measure to temporarily extend the federal backstop is introduced in the House.

A new report foresees an increased demand for reinsurance as life insurers look to spread out risks.

Overreactions to climate change may endanger the beef supply.

A majority of corporate executives report the need to overhaul their risk management approach, an Accenture study finds, and their starting point should be in integration of risk management and performance management processes.

Upp Technology will provide BCBS members "competitive pricing," rapid response times and access to more than 25,000 IT pros.

Are we really heading toward a day when we’ll all be zipping around in airborne automobiles? Probably not.

The president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago said last week that financial institutions should be forced to buy capital insurance, or issue debt that could be converted into equity in a crisis.

The storm clouds that tend to visit America’s Atlantic and Gulf coasts each autumn may have a silver lining for reinsurers based in Bermuda. A new report from New York-based Deloitte, which features analysis from Standards and Poor's reinsurance director Laline Carvalho, says a variety of factors have quelled reinsurers' appetite for risk, which will result in higher prices for reinsurance.

The developer of what may well be the world’s first mass-produced “flying car” is discussing a range of options with underwriters from several companies in an attempt to come up with an affordable insurance policy for this hybrid vehicle/aircraft.

Richmond, Va.-based Genworth Financial says its U.S. mortgage insurance business was seeing positive results from the Obama Administration's Home Affordability Refinance Program (HARP).

Aon Benfield’s July Reinsurance Market Update report shows catastrophe-exposed programs outside of the United States remained firm.

The new head of the AIA, Leigh Ann Pusey, weighs in on a bevy of legislative issues pertinent to the insurance industry.

If insurers succeed in excising all elements of risk from within their own walls, they may in turn run the risk of stifling learning and creativity.