Digital Insurance
Blog: Save to spend on IT
In today's digital world, customers demand a level of control in how, where, when and on what device they interact with their insurer. Service providers who fail to adjust their service levels to meet these demands will quickly lose out.
Trade Voice: Big data, big opportunities…
…and a fair few big challenges along the way as well.
Q&A: Niall Mackenzie: Search for solutions
Niall Mackenzie leads the sports betting and e-gaming sector at Google. He outlines the digital lessons the insurance industry could learn.
Video: Introducing cyber cover
As digital technologies accelerate, so do cyber risks. From hacking and malicious attacks to stolen laptops and data, cyber criminals attack indiscriminately. But online attacks are only a part of it.
Home of the future
The connected home has the potential to revolutionise living space as we know it.
Axa completes SME broker offering revamp with leadership team hires
Axa has appointed seven people to lead its online SME trading hub for brokers.
Deutsche Telekom head warns insurers over connected home complacency
Insurers have been warned to start exploring the potential of connected homes - or find themselves potentially usurped in the household market by disruptive players.
Insurers upping IT spend to unlock digital potential claims CSC boss
Insurance companies are starting to “unlock” their inner digital insurer according to CSC’s insurance boss.
Innovation Group urges insurer agility for success in digital era
Only insurers that are flexible enough to reshape their business to adapt to digital and economic challenges will succeed, according to an Innovation Group report, released today (7 July).
C-Suite - Insurer: Keeping everyone smiling
Innovation is key to giving the customers what they need, while also keeping regulators happy.
Roundtable: Telematics: a move into the mainstream
Will the falling cost of telematics devices see the technology move away from exclusively targeting young drivers and into other sections of the motor market?
Insurer uptake of cloud on the up despite continued legacy issues
Two fifths of insurers are still allocating more than 70% of their technology budget on non-discretionary or run spend, rather than projects that might allow them to innovate and change their businesses.
Europe: Cyber security
With hacking and phishing scams on the increase, businesses would be expected to include cyber insurance in their arsenal of measures designed to protect them and their customers in the event of breaches.
C-Suite - Insurer: Beware the rise of the machines
The Internet of Things presents opportunities for business, but brings with it questions of liability, says Jacqueline McNamee.
Blog: Complex commercial e-trading
Thomas Stuart, insurer development director for Acturis, explores whether or not service and e-traded efficiencies co-exist in complex commercial
Tech blog: Serving two masters
In the second of Post's new tech blogs, DLG's Ash Roots looks at how best to walk the tightrope between compliance and attracting customers.
Legal update: The Internet of Things - Who is liable?
The legacy of low-quality components could be challenging for insurers, says Jim Sherwood.
Blog: Risks and remedies in a new, connected world
Ahead of Post's Telematics event on 17 June, speaker Andy Rowland looks at how an increasingly connected world can pose cyber security threats in the form of hackers - and how ethical hackers can help combat this.
Alibaba-backed Chinese internet insurer raises $931m
Zhong An Insurance has raised 5.78bn yuan ($931m) in its first private round of financing according to a report.
Tech blog: New Insurance shall exit ‘The Trough of Sorrow'
In the first of Post's exciting new tech blogs, James York explains that while ‘Old' Insurance was in trough of sorrow, ‘New' Insurance can be very different - but both need each other.
Blog: The threat in the skies - have cyber attackers boarded the plane?
The aviation industry is fast becoming one of the hottest areas of interest among the cyber community - particularly insurers - as the risk profile to airplanes and carriers increases.
C-suite - Broker: Why I sleep soundly at night
It is not worth losing sleep worrying if you are doing enough digitally, says LV managing director, Phil Bunker.
Europe: Affinity insurance
Quality, simplicity and price are the ingredients for a successful affinity space in Continental Europe, says Brokerslink's Jacqueline Legrand