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  • Infrastructure
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      Tech Must Play Critical Role in Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Debut
      Start up ventures without legacy burdens enjoy a great opportunity for a forward-looking management team to really embed analytics and digital communications into their strategy, but others can leverage technology for specialty success, suggests Martina Conlon, Novarica.
    • Architecture/Infrastructure News

      • Bring Your Own Service: The Next Wave in Collaboration?
      • A Comeback for Native Mobile Apps in Insurance?
      • Insurance CIOs Are Reshaping Their IT Organizations to Fit the Times
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      • Application Performance: A New Competitive Advantage in Insurance
      • 4 Things Insurers Really Want from Mobile
      • 3 Reasons Insurance Carriers Should Bet on Mobile Technology
      • Managing Marketing's IT Spend
  • Policy Administration
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      4 Key Benefits of SaaS Automated Systems for Life Insurers
      The potential benefits of automated systems for new business and underwriting – in terms of speed, accuracy, cost reduction and improved service – make for a compelling value proposition.
    • Policy Administration News

      • Most Insurers Seek Integrated Core Platform: SAP Survey
      • The Philadelphia Contributorship Chooses ISCS SurePower Innovation Suite
      • FirstBest Integrates Verisk Data with Underwriting Suite
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      • Underwriting Technology Matures: The Birth and Rise
      • What Commercial Insurers Can Learn from Manufacturers
      • Insurance CIOs Should Turn Conventional Transformational Wisdom on its Head
      • After a Decade of M&A, CFG Emerges Unified on Sapiens ALIS Policy Administration System
  • Claims
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      Gartner: Personal Loss Control Could Reduce Losses 20% by 2015
      What a new Gartner report terms "active loss prevention" could usher in a new era of insurer/policyholder cooperation in the prevention of loss of property and person — potentially reshaping consumers' perception of the value of the insurance industry.
    • Claims News

      • Most Insurers Seek Integrated Core Platform: SAP Survey
      • National Western Life Replaces Existing eApp With StoneRiver LifeApply
      • MEDfx Gets Michigan Designation as SSA Disability eClaims Tech Provider
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      • Application Performance: A New Competitive Advantage in Insurance
      • 10 Top Tweets from #IASA2013
      • IASA Trend Watch: Mobile
      • Insurer Says Blue Cod Solution Stood Test of Super Storm Sandy
  • Management Strategies
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      CIOs Must Be Leaders, Not Mere Technocrats
      Technical competence is never enough, at least not for inspiring excellence in execution in others, helping them to be better than the teams you're competing against.
    • Management Strategies News

      • Farmers Taps Yahoo Vet to Lead Digital Strategy
      • Travelers Acquires Dominion of Canada
      • Aegon Appoints Americas Exec Global CTO
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      • Northwestern Mutual’s Enterprise Venture Fund Drives New Tech Adoption
      • IASA Trend Watch: Mobile
      • Jackson National Life's Rapid Growth Drives Facilities, IT Expansion
      • 5 Market Forces Driving Change in Insurance Carriers' Strategy — Deloitte
  • Risk Management
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      Video: Sentry Takes Risk Management Portal Mobile
      The mobile version of Sentry Insight is meant to give commercial lines customers greater access to their claims information.
    • Risk Management News

      • Vertafore Commits to Single Sign-On
      • MagMutual Names New Risk Management VP
      • Hartford Steam Boiler Partners on Blackout Risk Tech
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      • Technology and History Accelerate Insurers' Risk Management Evolution
      • Big Data Boosts Enterprise Risk Management
      • Badass Diamond Heist Boosts Case for Loss Control Tech
      • Making ERM Part of an Insurer's Culture Requires People, Not Just Technology
  • Regulation
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      FIO and NYDFS: A Tale of Two Reports
      New York Insurance Commissioner Ben Lawsky's criticism of captive reinsurance deals appears sensationalist in light of the yesterday's FIO report and industry-side statements.
    • Regulation News

      • MEDfx Gets Michigan Designation as SSA Disability eClaims Tech Provider
      • Insurers Still Waiting for Regulatory Modernization Report
      • SAP's Camilion Buy Fuels New Compliance-Focused Launch
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      • 4 Key Issues from the Long-Delayed FIO Report
      • 5 Market Forces Driving Change in Insurance Carriers' Strategy — Deloitte
      • After a Decade of M&A, CFG Emerges Unified on Sapiens ALIS Policy Administration System
      • 4 Health Insurance Reform Concerns Technology Can Address
  • Distribution
    • Top Story

      Gartner: Personal Loss Control Could Reduce Losses 20% by 2015
      What a new Gartner report terms "active loss prevention" could usher in a new era of insurer/policyholder cooperation in the prevention of loss of property and person — potentially reshaping consumers' perception of the value of the insurance industry.
    • Distribution News

      • National Western Life Replaces Existing eApp With StoneRiver LifeApply
      • Lincoln Financial Distributors' Tech Strategy: Be Producer-Centric
      • Sentinel Security Life Adopts iPipeline iGO App-based Solution
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      • 3 Technologies Changing P&C Insurance Distribution
      • Tech-Enabled Closers Pursue Golden Leads in Insurance Sales
      • Life Insurers Deliver Agent Ease Of Use With E-Signatures, E-Apps And Automated Underwriting
      • CUNA Mutual Group Triples Annuity Sales With Gamified Sales Platform
  • Customer Insight
    • Top Story

      10 Top Tweets from #IASA2013
      Twitter activity around the IASA Educational Conference and Business Show increased this year with the promise of an iPad Mini to one prolific Tweeter. Here's some of the highlights.
    • Customer Insight News

      • Care West Insurance Engages Valen Analytics for Improve Underwriting Performance
      • Three Insurers Take The Plunge Into Telehealth
      • IPartners Signs South African Insurer
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      • Big Data's Consumerization Angle
      • More Analytics of Ingenie Telematics Data on the Horizon
      • Is Big Data Insurers' Savior — Or Destroyer?
      • 5 Agenda Items for the 2013 IASA Annual Conference
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  • Security/Risk Management

      • 5 Big Database Breaches Of Spring 2013
        By | June 04, 2013
        Learning from the most recent impactful breaches of 2013.
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      • Vertafore Commits to Single Sign-On
        By Nathan Golia | June 03, 2013
        The company says its new capability is related to its work with ID Federation.
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      • MagMutual Names New Risk Management VP
        By Nathan Golia | May 31, 2013
        Laura Martinez takes over the position.
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      • Hartford Steam Boiler Partners on Blackout Risk Tech
        By Nathan Golia | May 30, 2013
        The Munich Re unit has partnered with Atmospheric and Environmental Research to develop a technology that insurers and clients can use to assess blackout risk.
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      • Lincoln Financial Group Names New VP & Managing Director Of Portfolio Management Analytics
        By Kathy Burger | May 21, 2013
        Credit risk management expert Paul Narayanan most recently headed Credit Risk Analytics at AIG Property Casualty.
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      • Aetna Names J.P. Morgan Vet New CISO
        By Nathan Golia | May 16, 2013
        James Routh has joined Aetna as chief information security officer responsible for the overall program around the health insurer's information assets.
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      • RMS Debuts the RMS (one) Real-Time Exposure and Risk Management Environment
        By Anthony O'Donnell | May 09, 2013
        The new environment will provide intuitive, enterprise-wide access to real-time risk intelligence, enabling decision-makers at every level of the organization - from risk analysts to the CEO - the opportunity to ask questions and get answers in real time, according to the vendor.
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      • Bulletin: ID Federation Momentum Growing, Says Progressive's DeVito
        By Nathan Golia | May 07, 2013
        The organization working to deliver a set of standards for agent password management across multiple carriers should have version 1.0 ready within "months," he says.
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      • Websites Harbor Fewer Flaws, But Most Have At Least One Serious Vulnerability
        By | May 03, 2013
        SQL injection drops out of WhiteHat Security's top 10 website vulnerability list
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      • Conning/RASL Alliance Aims at Alternative Investment Strategies for Insurers
        By Anthony O'Donnell | April 29, 2013
        The firms have adopted a "unique" approach will provide exposure to sources of return traditionally available only to investors in hedge funds but with significantly lower fees and capital charges as well as greater transparency and liquidity.
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      • Data Center Security Spending Rises
        By | April 19, 2013
        Organizations that run their own data centers will spend an average of $17 million on security products this year, according to a new survey—an increase of more than $2 million.
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      • Boston Bombers Can't Elude City's Tech Infrastructure
        By | April 19, 2013
        Video surveillance played a key role in identifying the suspects in Monday's tragic Boston Marathon bombing, setting a precedent for increasing use of sophisticated security IT systems nationwide.
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      • Boston Marathon Bombing's Implications for Insurance
        By Anthony O'Donnell | April 16, 2013
        The attack introduced new risks into social life, which will ultimately affect risk management, security measures and insurance.
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      • Technology and History Accelerate Insurers' Risk Management Evolution
        By Anthony O'Donnell | April 11, 2013
        Insurance chief risk officers are rising to greater prominence within their organizations as regulation and technological possibilities drive rapid evolution of risk quantification technology and techniques.
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      • Worldwide IT Risk Spending Slows Down More Than Expected
        By | April 04, 2013
        As the memory of the financial crisis begins to wane and firms’ new, improved risk management practices become operational, worldwide IT risk spending is slowing at a faster rate than previously expected.
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      • Big Data Boosts Enterprise Risk Management
        By Anthony O'Donnell | April 01, 2013
        Technology is democratizing insurers' access to high-performance computing and expanding their view of risk exposure.
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      • 5 Steps To Strengthen Information Risk Profiles
        By | March 29, 2013
        Make sure you include the right employees and business processes when developing risk management strategy.
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      • Insurer Chief Risk Officers' Profiles Rise with Prominence of Tech: E&Y
        By Nathan Golia | March 19, 2013
        Increased risk exposure to risk due to social media and channel proliferation, as well as a focus on data and analytics projects in the "big data" era, is raising the profile of the chief risk officer within the insurance enterprise, according to Ernst & Young.
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      • As Cyber Threats Build Against U.S., CEOs Ask for 'Light Touch'
        By Susan Heavey and Alina Selyukh, Reuters | March 14, 2013
        Corporate leaders from the defense, technology, energy and banking industries told President Barack Obama on Wednesday they agreed cyber attacks were a top security threat but that they were looking for a "light touch" from the government in response to the risk.

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      • Conning/Milliman Partnership Boosts Economic Capital Modeling
        By Anthony O'Donnell | March 05, 2013
        Linking Milliman’s MG-ALFA system with Conning’s GEMS Economic Scenario Generator will respond to regulators’ and raters increasing demand for stochastic modeling capabilities and foster a holistic approach to risk management.
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      • Badass Diamond Heist Boosts Case for Loss Control Tech
        By Nathan Golia | February 20, 2013
        Thieves found holes in the heavy surveilled diamond supply chain and made off with $50 million in gems.
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      • Most Midsize Insurers Lack Mobile Device Management for BYOD: Novarica
        By Nathan Golia | February 11, 2013
        While about three-quarters of large insurers use mobile device management software for their BYOD-enabled employees, the reverse is true for midsize insurers.
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      • Making ERM Part of an Insurer's Culture Requires People, Not Just Technology
        By Jeffery Brown, Infogix, Inc. | February 08, 2013
        Effective risk management is not about trying to avoid risk; it is about striking a balance between minimizing risk and maximizing reward.
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      • 6 Steps To Better Customer Data Protection
        By | January 29, 2013
        Privacy isn't a concern just for the Googles and Facebooks of the world. Here are six ways small and midsize businesses (SMB) can better protect their customers -- and themselves.
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      • U.S. Government Warns of Hacking Threat to PCs
        By Jim Finkle, Reuters | January 29, 2013
        The U.S. Department of Homeland Security urged computer users on Tuesday to disable a common networking technology feature, after researchers warned that hackers could exploit flaws to gain access to tens of millions of vulnerable devices.

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