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Insurance & Technology July 27, 2005 Peggy Bresnick Kendler |
Investing Wisely Q: What are the key issues insurers face in terms of portfolio/investment management, and how are carriers addressing those issues?... Q: How can portfolio management systems and related technologies help insurers better manage, track and report on investments and financial performance?... etc.  |
Insurance & Technology August 26, 2004 Johannah Rodgers |
The Next Generation Numbers Game Increasing sensitivity to compliance and cost issues is resulting in a renewed focus on back-end systems for insurance carriers.  |
Insurance & Technology June 1, 2006 Peggy Bresnick Kendler |
A Good Investment Challenged by reduced returns, complex investment vehicles and stringent reporting requirements, insurers are deploying portfolio management systems to track, value and report on their investments.  |
Insurance & Technology August 1, 2007 Anthony O'Donnell |
Actuaries Adopt New Risk-Modeling Technologies Actuaries' collaboration with IT leads to more sophisticated tech.  |
Wall Street & Technology January 25, 2010 Penny Crosman |
10 Trends That Are Reshaping the Wall Street Back Office Here are 10 developments that are reshaping Wall Street's operations departments and the technology they use.  |
Insurance & Technology August 26, 2007 Peggy Bresnick Kendler |
Workers' Compensation Carriers Agree: Business Intelligence, Analytics Critical To Market Success Industry experts discuss how improved data management and automation of manual processes are key to helping workers' compensation carriers build share in an increasingly competitive market.  |
Insurance & Technology May 16, 2007 Susana Schwartz |
Drive For Automation Causes Insurance Carriers To Integrate The Internet has yielded more choices among comparative raters and aggregators, thus elevating agents to a more powerful position as the gatekeepers to multiple company ratings.  |
Insurance & Technology September 14, 2006 Maria Woehr |
One Charter to Rule Them All? Insurers, analysts and vendors are weighing the benefits and risks of the National Insurance Act of 2006 - a plan to adopt an optional federally chartered regulatory system - as well as the impact the federal regulation could have on IT systems.  |
Insurance & Technology February 10, 2009 Anthony O'Donnell |
Business Intelligence Makes Insurers More-Competitive Risk Managers For most insurers, business intelligence means point solutions at best. But those carriers that weave analytics into the fabric of their organizations are equipped to drive more precision in pricing and greater profitability to the bottom line.  |
Wall Street & Technology April 26, 2007 |
Superderivatives Launches SD-Funds, an Online Multi-Asset Derivatives Platform Designed for hedge fund and asset managers, the platform includes all pre-trade and post-trade activities covering all asset and derivatives classes.  |
Insurance & Technology May 28, 2008 Doug Sheehan |
Enhanced Investment Systems Offer Better Integration of Data The enhanced technical capabilities of external data providers is making it possible for insurers to have better integration with these data sources, having great potential to improve data accuracy, timeliness and efficiency.  |
Insurance & Technology November 26, 2003 Cynthia Saccocia |
Placing Your Bets Technology Will insurers ante up on technology investments in front-office or back-office systems in 2004, or hold back? In this exclusive preview, TowerGroup assesses the field.  |
Wall Street & Technology August 27, 2004 Paul Allen |
Custodians Target Compliance Firms that lack the technology, data or manpower to monitor compliance are looking to their custodian services for relief.  |
Insurance & Technology March 30, 2009 Nathan Conz |
Clearwater Analytics Launches Insurance Offering Clearwater Analytics has released Insurance Analytics to address the industry's investment reporting needs.  |
CFO September 1, 2008 David M. Katz |
Fair-Value Revolution Historical cost accounting is fading as Corporate America marches into a new era.  |
Insurance & Technology January 17, 2006 Cynthia Saccocia |
Managing in the Best and Worst of Times The insurance industry leaders - from megaglobal insurers to small regional or niche carriers - are achieving excellence by concentrating on profitable growth and competitive advantage.  |
Wall Street & Technology May 20, 2008 Cory Levine |
Capgemini Partners With Teradata to Create Compliance and Operations Platform The new platform will enable holistic regulatory reporting and monitoring of trade status issues.  |
Wall Street & Technology November 23, 2009 Ivy Schmerken |
New Regulatory Requirements Require Data On-Demand With a plethora of proposed regulations in the pipeline, financial services firms are facing more strenuous audits and data reporting requirements that could result in penalties if firms get them wrong.  |
Wall Street & Technology April 14, 2006 Govind Sandhu |
Beyond Registration Persistent compliance efforts may be one of the most critical investments in the success of today's hedge funds.  |
Wall Street & Technology January 23, 2007 Peter A. Horowitz |
On the Offensive The mega changes brought about by globalization, demographics, new regulation and new technologies, as well as diminishing product profit margins, disintermediation and previous underinvestment, will be compounded by fundamental changes in the financial industry's structure and makeup.  |
Insurance & Technology May 28, 2008 Peggy Bresnick Kendler |
Accounting and Financial Systems: Technological Enhancements Offer Promise -- and Questions Insurers' accounting and financial systems -- including billing, annual reporting, portfolio management and investment management platforms -- are becoming increasingly integrated with other enterprise systems.  |
Wall Street & Technology January 22, 2008 Sabatini & Smirnoff |
Trade Reporting, Surveillance Key To Compliance With increased regulatory focus on protecting securities market participants, trade reporting and trade surveillance are key to providing transparency, efficiency and oversight for today's trading environment.  |
Insurance & Technology February 8, 2004 Jamie Bisker |
Core Systems: Journey to the Center of Insurance An analysis of the state of core systems, and how to create renewable systems, in the insurance industry  |
Bank Systems & Technology February 22, 2007 Nancy Feig |
A Happy Marriage: Finding the Right Technology Mate for Compliance Programs Banks are turning to GRC software platforms to maximize compliance technology's effectiveness and gain greater return on investment.  |
Insurance & Technology December 13, 2006 Maria Woehr |
Ready for Your Close-Up The degree to which an insurer uses customer analytics - and the effectiveness of those efforts - provides the foundation for understanding the customer and enhancing the customer experience throughout the enterprise.  |
Wall Street & Technology June 4, 2004 |
Key Trends in U.S. Securities Key IT trends within the U.S. securities industry currently revolve around the broad concepts of cost reduction, operational efficiency, and compliance and risk management.  |
Insurance & Technology June 9, 2010 Anthony O'Donnell |
Insurers Master Data for Strategic Business Support Insurance carriers are developing new data standards and governance structures to support business decision-making and carve out a competitive advantage.  |
Insurance & Technology March 10, 2006 |
TechWatch Web Monitoring... Policy Administration... Compliance... Data Warehouse... Financial Management... Activity Monitoring... etc.  |
Insurance & Technology August 7, 2008 Anthony O'Donnell |
Policy Admin System Replacement: Insurers Shift Focus From Systems to Functionalities Interboro Insurance Co.'s policy administration replacement initiative was in key respects a classic case.  |
Insurance & Technology May 28, 2008 Dori Dwyer |
Business Intelligence Capabilities Transform Accounting and Financial Systems True business intelligence (BI) capabilities are revolutionizing the value insurers are realizing from their accounting and financial systems.  |
Insurance & Technology December 23, 2005 Maria Woehr |
Bracing for the Claims Storm Many insurance carriers have invested in new back-office and field technologies within the past year to enable more-efficient claims processing and provide better customer service. And, for many, it wasn't a moment too soon.  |
Insurance & Technology June 10, 2009 Anthony O'Donnell |
The Key to Keeping Customers Is Getting to Know Them Carriers that get to know their customers well -- by effectively leveraging collected data and by simply listening to what they say -- have a huge advantage in a tough insurance market.  |
Insurance & Technology February 9, 2004 Greg MacSweeney |
2004 Top Insurance Business/Technology Issues This special report takes a look at some of the top business issues that insurance carriers will face this year and how technology can help make their challenges easier.  |
Wall Street & Technology June 13, 2006 |
SunGard Upgrades Platform The newest version of InvesTier provides domestic and offshore hedge funds and funds of funds with partnership accounting, fee calculation and equalization accounting capabilities.  |
Insurance & Technology May 4, 2009 Anthony O'Donnell |
Economy Drives Exploration of New Outsourcing Opportunities Insurers are slightly more cautious about the financial, political and security risks of offshoring, but they are keen to find new BPO opportunities.  |
Bank Systems & Technology December 1, 2006 Peggy Bresnick Kendler |
IT Asset Management: From the Data Center to the Desktop Questions and answers about how banks track and manage IT assets, the risks for banks that don't have efficient IT asset management processes and how IT executives can develop effective IT asset management solutions.  |
Insurance & Technology January 5, 2007 Vincent Oliva |
Take Risk Management and Compliance to the Next Level A seemingly never-ending wave of new compliance directives is perplexing insurance companies around the world, sowing confusion among insurers about how they should respond.  |
Insurance & Technology June 16, 2004 Julie Gallagher |
Look On the Bright Side Rather than letting the clouds of regulation rain on their operations, insurers that look for compliance's silver lining have an opportunity to improve their business processes.  |
Insurance & Technology January 25, 2005 |
Deja Vu All Over Again Many of the major areas of focus for senior insurance technology executives in the coming year will be familiar ones that have become even more pressing. Insurers will boost their offshore outsourcing activities and increasingly dip a toe into business process outsourcing (BPO).  |
Wall Street & Technology May 31, 2007 Kyle Duckers |
Savvy Financial Services Firms Tap Employee Intelligence For Strategic Decision Making The challenge for most capital markets firms is not a lack of raw data, but a lack of context and insight based on that information.  |
Insurance & Technology February 9, 2004 Julie Gallagher |
No Rest for the Compliance Weary in 2004 Many insurance carriers are playing post-deadline compliance catch-up in 2004.  |
Insurance & Technology March 9, 2007 |
Techwatch Content Search... Identity Compliance... Document Management... Underwriting... etc.  |
Insurance & Technology April 20, 2010 Peggy Bresnick Kendler |
Virtual Roundtable: The Imperatives of Infrastructure Successfully responding to rapidly changing market conditions requires a flexible technology architecture.  |
Insurance & Technology August 12, 2005 Peggy Bresnick Kendler |
The Compliance Challenge Industry experts offer opinions on what the biggest challenges carriers currently face in terms of regulatory compliance.  |
FDIC FYI July 24, 2002 |
Enhancing Financial Transparency Participants in the conference discussed the strengths and flaws inherent in the U.S. financial reporting process and suggested ways of modifying not only the reporting mechanism, but also the accounting standards that underlie financial statements, audit opinions, credit ratings and analyst reports.  |
Wall Street & Technology January 23, 2007 Matt Nelson |
Ask The Expert: Trends Q: What business trend will have the biggest impact on asset managers in 2007, and how will it impact the IT department?... A: As we enter 2007, buy-side firms should be thinking about how they are positioned to support their clients' changing product needs...  |
Insurance & Technology December 15, 2009 Anthony O'Donnell et al. |
4 Technology Solutions That Sizzle While insurers often are cautious in their adoption of emerging technologies, carriers are investing in four solutions -- cloud computing, mobile, analytics and social networking -- that are just too transformative to ignore.  |
Insurance & Technology May 18, 2004 Julie Gallagher |
IT Isn't Tapped for Compliance The insurance industry fails to embrace the full business value of IT when it comes to addressing regulatory requirements and instead relies primarily on manual processes and ad hoc measures  |
Insurance & Technology August 22, 2007 David West |
Analytics Make Doing Business Easier By improving the speed and consistency of decisions, analytics opens the possibility of self-service applications for producers and the insured, including claimants. The result will be a dramatic improvement in the ease of doing business with the carrier.  |
Insurance & Technology July 12, 2006 Karen Pauli |
Slaying The Hydra One Head At A Time For many insurers, knowledge of the customer is not individualized. However, creating value and discernible difference in the delivery of products and services now is a driving force in insurance.  |