Laura Deaner joins the company from S&P Global.

Pandemic-challenged year sees the number of deals increase at a higher rate than the value of those deals, though both still rose.

Also: news from insurtechs Buckle, Foxquilt, Smartcar, True Mileage

Emerging consumer attitudes toward privacy threaten to overturn long-standing industry assumptions about customer data and personalization.

The benefit goes beyond compliance: It allows an organization to demonstrate that they are prioritizing the consumer's privacy expectations.

With the growing vulnerabilities and uncertainty of our highly globalized and connected world, actions in one place can spread rapidly to have global effects.

Tractable's computer-vision offering can appraise user-submitted photos for most claims, the companies say.

Embedded insurance solutions have become a key strategy that both insurance carriers and brands are turning to in order to stay competitive.

The 75,000 checks exchanged between the two carriers are now being processed on the blockchain.

Ashok Krishnan is the carrier's new chief data and analytics officer, based in London.

Digital Insurance asks funders what we can expect as the world and industry emerge from the coronavirus era.

PaymentSource's Daniel Wolfe sits down with Carey O'Connor Kolaja, AU10TIX's new CEO to discuss the rise in synthetic fraud, the fastest-growing financial crime, and how payments security has been changed by the pandemic.

Also: Amica, AXA, Pacific Life insurtech partnerships, more.

Cruise will be able to use Microsoft’s Azure cloud-computing platform to manage its self-driving vehicle network.

To help insurers better understand COVID-19’s impacts, TransUnion recently conducted a survey of U.S. consumers with active auto, homeowners, renters and/or life insurance policies.

Terms were not disclosed. Employees including Bold Penguin founder Ilya Bodner will remain with the company.

The company is accelerating what it's been doing over the past four years to meet rapidly changing customer needs, says Ken Solon

Digital Insurance is surveying our readers to kick off 2021 with late-breaking, actionable industry data.

Also: Three insurtech/insurer partnerships.

West is the second former Delta executive hired by GM and its related companies in recent months.