CTO / Technology
Insurers: The First and Next Alternative Data Innovators?
The world is in the middle of a data explosion. The quantity of data being generated and collected is increasing exponentially. Every company is now a data company, obsessively measuring, tracking ...
InsurTech MGA Corvus Nails Down a $10M Series A Financing
Corvus Insurance has secured $10 million in new venture financing, money the InsurTech-focused managing general agent plans to use to jump into additional lines of commercial insurance. Two firms led ...
Startup Understory Raises $7.5M; Produces Weather Data for Insurers, Others
Understory, a producer of weather and related analytics data for insurers and others, raised $7.5 million in new financing designed to help propel an international expansion. The Wisconsin-based ...
Swiss Re Backs Cover of U.S. Solar Power Output Risks
A tool designed as an insurance policy for solar-power generation will be used to manage the risk associated with U.S. residential systems for the first time as part of a financing agreement backing ...
Assurant Revamps With an Eye on Growth and Greater Technology Use
Assurant revamped its operating structure and made a new senior management appointments – changes designed to help the company grow more quickly and increase its use of technology. "As the needs of ...
The Latest Launches From CoreLogic and Ping An Property & Casualty Insurance
CoreLogic said it is bringing to Canada its Flood Risk Score and Weather Verification Service. Ping An Property & Casualty Insurance Co. in China entered into a cooperation agreement that will ...
The Latest Launches From Slice Labs/AXA XL and Roost
Slice Labs and AXA XL partnered on a new cyber insurance policy. Roost and Iceland's TM Insurance will link up in a deal that will expand access to its home telematics products. *** Slice Labs Inc. ...
Insurance, Banking CFOs Are Becoming Key Players in Their Companies’ Digital Transformation: Accenture
Chief financial officers at insurers and banks are increasingly important to their companies' digital transformation, according to a pair of new research studies from Accenture. The studies, one for ...