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  • How insurers can survive systemic technology outages

    03 April 2025

    Jonathan Hatzor, chief executive of managing agent and cloud outage analytics provider, Parametrix, says the insurance industry must rethink how it assesses and underwrites exposure to technology service providers or risk severe losses. Joshua Geer reports

  • Strengthening the European industry's cyber resilience

    24 January 2025

    The introduction of the Digital Operational Resilience Act is a positive for Europe's insurers, but compliance remains a challenge. Florence Lustman explains

  • AI's potential to improve customer outcomes

    25 October 2024

    Artificial intelligence could be a powerful tool to help insurers serve customers better, but it needs better regulation and governance. Martin Assmann reports

  • Insurance's role in the future of cyber risk management

    09 October 2024

    Digitalisation is creating huge opportunities for cyber insurers, but closing the protection gap will require more collaboration, explains Munich Re's Joachim Wenning

  • Cyber insurers showcase the opportunity from continuous underwriting

    25 July 2024

    Continuous underwriting has enabled cyber insurers to better understand their liabilities and improve profitability - and it's an approach the rest of the market could copy, as Paul Walsh reports

  • Global Atlantic's transformational technology officer

    07 June 2024

    Padma Elmgart talks to Sarfraz Thind about her work in modernising the tech structure of the fast-growing US annuity provider

  • The insurance implications of a US presidential election

    17 May 2024

    Polarised politics, civil disorder and cyber-attacks are just some of the concerns insurance experts have raised about the build-up to the November election and its outcome. Paul Walsh reports

  • Cyber risk is systematically priced in the capital markets: evidence from the Target cyber-attack

    09 May 2024

    In the second part of their article on quantifying and pricing cyber risk, Tim Freestone and Malcolm McLelland respond to reader queries and share further proof of their theory

  • AI: Superintelligent or superdangerous?

    22 April 2024

    The development of "superintelligent" AI could be the biggest shift - and some say threat - in the course of human evolution. Insurers will need to get to grips with it fast, as Sarfraz Thind examines

  • Didier Millerot on the "dual transition", Solvency II and the future of regulation

    29 January 2024

    The European Commission's head of insurance talks to Joshua Geer about the Solvency II review, the two major challenges facing insurers and what the future regulatory landscape will look like