CFO / Financial
Blockchain in Insurance: Applications and Pursuing a Path to Adoption
Blockchain, or distributed ledger technology, quickly has become a fixation in the financial services industry as a result of its potential to revolutionize and transform our thinking about data ...
Measuring Casualty Cat Risk: What Underwriters and Actuaries Miss and Why
Last month, I was invited to speak at the Casualty Actuarial Society Loss Reserving Seminar in Chicago, where I had the opportunity to challenge the existing techniques designed to measure ...
The Hartford Performs Well in Q3, Despite Continued Personal Lines Challenges
The Hartford's net income grew by double digits in the 2016 third quarter, buoyed by strong commercial lines results. Personal lines, on the other hand, produced a big underwriting loss, thanks to ...
XL Group CEO McGavick: In Q3, Catlin Merger Benefits Are Becoming Clearer
XL Group said it boosted net income and improved its property/casualty combined ratio during the 2016 third quarter, even as pretax natural catastrophe losses soared. CEO Mike McGavick asserted that ...
The Data Mindset Disconnect: Why Frontline Employees Need to Think in Terms of Data
How many employees at your organization have a firm grasp on how the Internet really works? The number is likely very few. Layer in knowing how to use the power of the Internet to better all types of ...
CEO Insight on Insurance M&A Drivers: From Fine Wine to Snapple
FROM THE ARCHIVES: A VINTAGE CARRIER MANAGEMENT ARTICLE FROM 2016 But even though insurance and reinsurance leaders these days deliver long lists of seemingly more compelling and logical reasons for ...
Could More State Commissioners Require Climate Disclosure?
Max Messervy took a decidedly positive tack when pried again and again to reveal any negative reaction to a report he puts together every so often. Messervy, the insurance program manager at ...
Blockchain Tech Provider Launches Open Source Platform
Time to put the blockchain hype to the test. After a year of promises that the technology would revolutionize Wall Street, anyone can now download an entire blockchain specifically built for ...