Recently, I co-hosted Aite-Novarica Group’s Broker-Dealer Technology Research Group meeting, along with my colleagues Nancy Casbarro, Mitch Wein, John Keddy, and Jack Krantz. Joined by an array of carrier-owned broker-dealers, this session gave us the opportunity to dive into emergent issues that showcase the complexity of the regulatory environment faced in this space, as well as the dramatic shifts in demographics reflected in producers and customers alike. Two key areas of focus emerged out of the discussion: generative artificial intelligence (AI) and data.
May 18, 2023
The author William Gibson once famously noted that the future is already here…it just isn’t evenly distributed. If there was any question about how true that statement is, it was effectively dispelled at Aite-Novarica Group’s recent Insurance CIO Council Meeting.
May 2, 2023
We live in a time of amazing changes, both in terms of technology and the economic environment around us. These changes create new opportunities as well as significant threats for insurance carriers, which may well be the operational equivalent of deciding if a glass is half full…or half empty.
April 24, 2023
Most people remember Michael J. Fox’s starring turn in the bit of Hollywood magic that highlights a 30-year jump back in time, landing him in the 1950s, before space travel, the Beatles, and pervasive computing of any kind. Today, a similar leap would take us to the dawn of the internet era, a world when client-server computing was at its zenith and some questioned the future viability of Apple as a company. How much has changed! I recently saw a DeLorean on the road, which brought a certain magical whimsy to mind. Hopefully, the flux capacitor was in good working order.