March 9, 2012
In a rapidly changing world, new innovations that keep global companies competitive are an extremely important resource – none more so than in the UK’s insurance sector. The Rt. Hon. David Willetts, the UK’s Universities and Science Minister, demonstrated just …
March 6, 2012
MAPFRE Group’s David O’Gorman, URS Managing Director-Spain/Portugal/Latin America, announced that the group has “licensed Risk Explorer™, the Dynamic Financial Analysis (DFA) software and a suite of other products from Ultimate Risk Solutions (URS).” The bulletin described “Risk Explorer™” as the …
January 31, 2012
London Market technology specialists TriSystems has announced the launch of a new electronic underwriting service to complement their electronic broking platform, which, the company said, marks “a significant shift from the tactical to strategic use of messaging software. “Lime-St.com For …
January 17, 2012
Underwriting Agency, i-Digital Insurance and specialist Lloyd’s insurer Jubilee have joined forces to develop and distribute a new product providing coverage for downloaded content held on computers, smart phones, mobile devices and any other form of electronic equipment. “i-Digital’s own …
January 3, 2012
Business processing specialist Xchanging announced that it has invested in a major upgrade of the mainframe platform at the heart of the London Market Bureau. The bulletin explained that the company has purchased an IBM z114 machine, which it described …
December 21, 2011
Motor [auto] insurers seeking to get around a European ban on charging male drivers more than women are turning to innovative black box technology that could trigger an upheaval in the way car insurance is sold. Britain’s biggest motor insurer, …
November 14, 2011
International broker Lockton announced that its London operations have “commenced trading with e-Accounts, the initiative which enhances the electronic submission of accounting entries by brokers to support global business.” Lockton’s Property and Aviation division partnered with Xchanging to successfully test …
October 28, 2011
The London market’s ambition to enable brokers to trade globally with it more easily has taken a significant step closer with phase one of e-Accounts now operational. Brokers using the system can “send and receive ACORD accounting and settlement messages, …
October 27, 2011
Consumers in the United States and Canada have sued Research in Motion for a days-long service outage on BlackBerry devices that rippled across the world earlier this month. The system-wide failure of the service had left tens of millions of …
October 13, 2011
The company that makes the BlackBerry smart phone is working frantically to end a three-day global service disruption that has frustrated millions of its customers and pumped up pressure on its management to make sweeping changes. Research In Motion [RIM], …