Worldwide, public cloud services are growing four times the rate of overall IT spending, notes Gartner.

With home prices still depressed and the FHA's grip on the market for low-down payment loans still firm, mortgage insurers are stuck in the same rut they were a year and a half ago.

Microsoft Moves Office to the Cloud

J.D. Power research also finds unbundled customers happier with insurance offerings.

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With a focus on growth rather than simple cost-cutting, insurance CIOs are trying to deeply change the mix of capabilities, knowledge and assets within their organizations.

Model intended to help insurers quantify the risk of wind and related flood loss in China and Hong Kong

If we collectively suffer from a bad rap, it's because our industry lacks a community of leaders that can act as an organized front—a cohesive voice that can rebrand insurance as a prominent and respected force in financial services.

Study estimates insurers will manage 50 times more data and 75 times more files in next decade.

Economic conditions lead middle-income baby boomers to reevaluate plans, with more women than men saying income now inadequate to pursue retirement.

Insurance is said to be leading a tepid revival in IT spending for 2011, but the overall picture is anything but encouraging.

Actuaries propose metrics as regulators here and abroad work to determine which companies pose a systemic risk.

A rapidly growing focus on “in-app purchasing” will help insurers better engage their mobile customers.

Questionable claims rose 23% from 2008 to 2010; California, Florida, Texas, New York and Michigan generated 49% of those.

While mutual fund companies in general are not embracing mobile technologies to the degree that banks, credit cards and self-directed brokerages are TIAA-CREF and Vanguard stand out in terms of offering research and trades via mobile devices, according to Corporate Insight.

Insurers will benefit from “better, cheaper, faster” initiatives tied to hosted services by taking a thoughtful, common sense approach.

J.D. Power and Associates: Kaiser ranks highest in employer satisfaction among fully insured commercial health plans; UnitedHealthcare ranks highest among self-insured commercial health plans.

As information sources continue to grow, Gartner report outlines three topics for matching technology with business interest.

Industry applauds as Roy Woodall is nominated to serve as voting member on board formulating rules regarding systemic risk.

Nearly 60% of Americans aged 50 and older worry about long-term care costs and don’t feel confident that they’ll be able to meet those costs; only 16% feel financially prepared to finance their long-term care, according to Sun Life Financial survey.