BLOGS

On October 26th, I hosted the latest meeting of the Aite-Novarica Women’s Network on perspectives from developing leaders. We were joined by guest panelists Katie Wendling (Manager, Electric Insurance), Kimberly Wilson (AVP, Strategy and Planning, MetLife), and Dani Baresel-Pavlik (ECM Director, Pinnacol Assurance) who shared their experiences and perspectives. They had a couple pieces of key...

Insurers are entering an era that requires them to continuously confront previously unforeseen risk. Some lines of business, such as cyber insurance, have been able to overcome a deficit in claims data through analytics and predictive modeling. Other lines have grappled with business interruption coverage and adjusting life insurance mortality models in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic....

The pace of digitalization in the banking and financial services industry is hastening due to the COVID-19 pandemic and modern technologies disrupting traditional business models. Moving to the cloud is now key to help drive forward digital transformation initiatives. Financial institutions (FIs) are realizing economies of scale by running software, data analytics, and digital business...

Investment firms designing their technology stack historically had a choice: best-of-breed or integrated solutions. Best-of-breed applications offered strong functionality, but firms struggled with integration, upgrades, adding new functionality, and an exponential increase in cost and complexity that often left them stuck on legacy and unsupported versions of software. Alternatively,...