Technology

The global insurance technology sector attracted a record level of investment in the first half of this year, surpassing total funding for 2020, analysis by Willis Towers Watson (WTW) has found.

Life and property and casualty (P&C) insurers are set to accelerate their use of automation over the next five years as they look to improve the efficiency and auditability of their actuarial processes.

Actuaries can play a major role in helping decentralised financial technologies reach their full potential, says Zhixin Li

Joel Walmsley writes about the past, present and future of artificial intelligence from a philosophical point of view

Alastair Black looks at how the increasing use of analytics is affecting life insurance pricing

Edward Plowman explains some of the developments currently taking place in insurtech, and why actuaries must embrace this change if they are to succeed

Tessa McAuliffe shares how then IFoA’s Careers Team is looking to support graduate careers during the COVID-19 pandemic – and into the future

A consortium of seven leading insurers have launched a new company dedicated to enhancing cyber risk mitigation efforts across the global insurance industry.

Cyber criminals are demanding increasingly large sums of money when carrying out ransomware attacks on UK businesses, research by technology firm Cybereason has uncovered.

The majority of large and mid-size organisations worldwide are failing to anticipate and model key emerging risks, a new report from insurance firm Marsh suggests.