CFO / Financial
Full Power of Data-Driven Analytics Still Largely Untapped by Insurers
The depth and breadth of predictive modeling applications are growing as insurance companies become more comfortable with this core function in modern property/casualty business. However, few ...
Large International Insurers Challenged by Increasing Regulatory Burden
There is an increased focus globally on international insurance regulation driven by efforts within the G20 major economies to strengthen the international regulatory regime since the financial ...
If You Don’t Have a CIO on Your Board, You’re in Trouble (and You May Not Even Know It)
It's a widely accepted truism in this new millennium—if not an entirely proven one—that technology drives innovation and innovation drives competitive advantage. Whether or not that's completely ...
Understanding Terminology
Core IT: The systems that provide core insurance functionality including policy administration, claims and billing. Many times these systems are old and are difficult to modify. Change is done using ...
Catastrophe Losses Dented Chubb’s Q1 Net Income
Severe U.S. winter weather left Chubb Corp. with higher catastrophe expenses in its 2015 first quarter, a major factor that dampened net income. But CEO John Finnegan framed the overall results as ...
Swiss Re Exec Reports: There’s a Perfect Storm Brewing
There's an irony in the term "perfect storm" that insurers understand better than anyone. Not only do we help policyholders recover from them, but we may be in for one of our own. Like shifting winds ...
What Carriers Want From Core Systems Transformations
Insurance carriers are making an unprecedented investment in transforming their policy, billing and claims systems and processes. This is a unique period where the convergence of aging legacy ...
P/C Insurer Mergers: Reaching the Tipping Point
The growing number of reinsurance mergers is understandable considering that the flood of alternative capital has upended the industry's economics. If companies don't lower their cost of capital and ...