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Insurers Accelerate Their Flight to the Cloud: Novarica
Insurers are largely planning to expand their cloud usage into new areas in the coming months, according to a new Novarica study. Approximately 75 percent of insurers said they would expand their use ...
Big Picture Leaders Less Likely to Invest in Unfamiliar Cutting-Edge Tech
Forget the 30,000-foot, big-picture view. When faced with a cutting-edge technological idea, business leaders who approach the idea in more concrete "how" terms—rather than in abstract "why" ...
IoT Data Can Help Insurers Cover Existing and New Risks Alike: Geneva Association
Data from Internet of Things-related (IoT) devices is a potential boon to insurers, giving them new options for covering existing and new risks alike, according to a new report published by The ...
Swedish Tech Startup Haidrun Releases Insurance-Focused Enterprise Blockchain Platform
Swedish tech start-up Haidrun debuted an enterprise blockchain platform targeted at insurers and reinsurers. Haidrun's private blockchain platform is pitched as eliminating suspicious and duplicate ...
The Latest Launches From Munich Re/HSB and USAA
Munich Re-owned HSB is debuting coverage meant to address evolving farm data risks, technology and state-of-the-art equipment. USAA said it has expanded its SafePilot app program into seven new ...
One Year In: How Insurers Are Doing on AM Best Innovation Assessments
In early March 2020, AM Best released Scoring and Assessing Innovation, our formalized criteria for measuring a company's innovativeness. Within weeks of its official launch, this methodology was put ...
Shift Technology Raises $220M to Advance AI-Driven Insurance Technology
Shift Technology raised a whopping $220 million in new venture investment designed to advance its products and services that rely on artificial intelligence and big data technology to optimize ...
Six Tech Levers Driving Digital Transformation in the New Normal
With new variants of the virus emerging, it may seem a bit premature to anticipate the end of the COVID-19 pandemic, but many organizations are accelerating digital transformation initiatives that ...