Technology & Analytics
Former EQECAT President Keogh Now at Ultimate Risk Solutions, LLC
Bill Keogh, who left EQECAT last year to join TigerRisk Partners, has now left the reinsurance brokerage to become chief executive officer of Ultimate Risk Solutions, LLC. Ultimate Risk Solutions is ...
Next Generation Cat Modeling: Multimodel, Open Source or Open Platform—What’s the Difference?
For the past two decades, insurers and reinsurers have licensed catastrophe models from AIR, RMS and EQECAT, and each vendor model came with its own front and back end to handle the model input and ...
Big Data, Cyber, Predictive Analytics on Agenda at University Symposium
The Academy of Risk Management and Insurance at St. Joseph's University is sponsoring a half-day symposium in May, addressing technology and innovation in the property/casualty insurance industry. ...
AIR Appoints Jayanta Guin Executive Vice President
Catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide on Monday announced that Dr. Jayanta Guin has been appointed executive vice president. Guin will continue to direct AIR's innovative research program as well ...
Third Parties Providing Data, Models Through AIR’s Touchstone Cat Platform
Catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide (AIR) announced Wednesday that a large number of third-party suppliers have chosen to provide their data and models through Touchstone. Those third-party ...
RMS’ Exceedance 2014 Conference Kicks Off April 14 in D.C.
Newark, Calif.catastrophe-risk management firm RMS announced that its Exceedance 2014 event will take place next week in Washington, D.C., with keynote speakers that include the first chief ...
Alibaba’s Blueprint for E-Commerce Empire Includes Insurance, Mutual Funds
Alibaba, the world's biggest e-commerce company, changed how China shops. Now the man driving its blockbuster U.S. stock sale wants to transform the rest of the country's services industry, adding ...
P/C Insurers Looking to Compete Must Learn to Embrace the Cloud
Property/casualty insurance companies have a reputation for being risk-averse. That certainly has been the case when it comes to cloud computing. While other industries have more readily embraced the ...