CIO

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The numbers are higher from Foundry’s 2023 State of CIO survey , which finds that 91% of CIOs expect their tech budgets to either increase or stay the same in 2023. For example, pricing and underwriting are two key areas where life insurance carriers can bring market-differentiating product offerings to customers, Seetharaman explains. “At

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CIO

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

One of the world’s largest risk advisors and insurance brokers launched a digital transformation five years ago to better enable its clients to navigate the political, social, and economic waves rising in the digital information age.

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CIO

MARCH 13, 2025

growth in ICT budgets specific to Italy, mostly in line with recent trends. For Crdit Agricole Insurance and Crdit Agricole Life, companies of the Crdit Agricole Group, digital transformation began a few years ago, involving both internal processes and those used externally by intermediaries and customers.

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

To manage their generative AI spend judiciously, organizations can use services like AWS Budgets to set tag-based budgets and alarms to monitor usage, and receive alerts for anomalies or predefined thresholds. This tagging structure categorizes costs and allows assessment of usage against budgets.

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CIO

MARCH 7, 2025

Our take: CIOs must focus on smart spending rather than indiscriminate budget slashing. See also: 10 IT budgeting mistakes to avoid.) Industries like telecom, media, high-tech, life sciences, and insurance are particularly affected. CIOs must balance cost cutting with strategic investments.

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CIO

MARCH 4, 2025

Satellite technology: Rapid growth in satellite constellations benefits telecom (remote connectivity), insurance and agriculture (high-resolution crop monitoring and disaster assessment). Pharma and agriculture companies now leverage AI and gene-editing (e.g., CRISPR) for personalized medicine and drought-resistant crops.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 8, 2021

Despite being a lawyer with an MBA, she said she found herself “just totally unprepared for all these real world things,” whether that was figuring out housing or heath insurance — something I (a non-lawyer, non-MBA) can definitely relate to. “There’s not one place that defines adulthood.”

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Xebia

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Attendees were surprised they shared the same struggles: software projects running over budget, missing deadlines, or failing to meet expectations. Yet, we continue to see projects fail with similar char acteristics: budget overruns and missed deadlines while failin g to meet expe ctations. In 1972, Edsger W.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2022

Kannry led the cyber insurance team for several years at Aon, while Dave came from Carnegie Mellon and spent the bulk of his career architecting cybersecurity frameworks, including a model — C2M2 (Cybersecurity Capability Maturity Model) — adopted by the U.S. . Image Credits: Axio.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

For the global risk advisor and insurance broker that includes use cases for drafting emails and documents, coding, translation, and client research. “The thing about the AI stuff is it’s really cheap, if you do it right,” Beswick says.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2021

Other investors included the Asian Development Bank (ADB) Ventures, PT Triputra Investindo Arya, Global Founders Capital, Trihill Capital, 1982 Ventures and Willy Swandi Dharma, former president director of insurance company PT Asuransi Adira Dinamika. More companies around the world are allowing workers to pick when they get paid.

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Crunchbase News

DECEMBER 17, 2024

For instance, Revolut has introduced AI-enabled budgeting tools, but these mostly categorize expenses instead of adapting dynamically to complex spending behaviors. Additionally, there are ethical concerns regarding biases and privacy preventing widespread deployment in areas like credit scoring or underwriting.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2022

Founded out of London in 2019, Ben is a SaaS platform that offers core employment benefits such as life insurance, health, and pension, as well as more lifestyle-based nice-to-haves such as gym memberships and work-from-home allowances. life insurance and pensions) products and lifestyle (e.g. ” Ben’s benefits. gyms) perks.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 8, 2022

Forma’s customers can design the benefits program they’d like to bring to employees by picking and choosing offerings from these categories based on their internal budget and strategy, he explained. ” The second option is for employees who want to spend their benefits budget outside of the marketplace.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Stevenson spent four years at health insurance giant Humana, while launching a few bootstrapped SaaS companies on the side. The startup is starting out by targeting other startups, which often lack the budgets to offer health benefits that can rival that of larger companies. He then founded the U.S.

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Cloudera

JANUARY 27, 2022

Insurers are increasingly adopting data from smart devices and related technologies to support and service their customers better. I have been researching more about how we can use the new data from those devices to design more innovative insurance products while being aware that these should all be contingent upon customer opt-in.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

The company, in a statement, said it will use the capital “to expand its multi-channel service capacity, engineering team, and marketing budget for B2C acquisition.”. We also created an insurance plan because we know that motor insurance is compulsory. million seed round. .

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Like other financial infrastructure companies, Stitch services allows companies and developers to innovate around other services like personal finance, lending, insurance, payments and wealth management. In 2017, Kiaan Pillay worked as the head of operations for South African insurance API platform Root.

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Tenable

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

After double-digit growth in the past two years, cybersecurity budgets expanded more modestly in 2023. 1 - Cybersecurity budgets grow, but less than in years past Cybersecurity teams on average saw an increase in their 2023 budgets, but the bump was much smaller than in previous years, as organizations across the board reined in IT spending.

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Mobilunity

DECEMBER 24, 2024

PRO TIP Insurers must act now: getting tech capabilities to the needed state will take years, and the industry is approaching a tipping point in which structures will shift very quickly. We’ve reviewed reports from McKinsey and Deloitte to explore how companies start driving growth through insurance modernization.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

On the buyer side, Moov aims to help small businesses and universities around the world that don’t have the budget or network to acquire equipment to further their innovation. Along with a real-time marketplace, Moov also features additional services such as logistics, refurbishment, insurance, and asset management software.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

The Japanese fintech startup said today it has raised a $20 million (2 billion JPY) Series A funding round led by Globis Capital Partners with participation from Z Venture Capital, Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Venture Capital, and DBJ Capital. Existing investors, including Global Brain, and ANRI, also participated in the round.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

The new round was co-led by New York-based VC firm Insight Partners and Hanaco Venture Capital and includes new investors Migdal Insurance, Altshuler Shaham, and Shavit Capital. Existing investors Goldman Sachs Asset Management, Clal Tech, Harel Insurance and Finance, and Greycroft, also participated. Image Credits: Lightricks.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2022

The startup was validated after a successful pilot involving a US-based investing firm and an insurance company in London. For its next stage of growth, it is targeting even larger corporations with bigger legal expenditure budgets and needs. “We

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2023

HealthAtom’s medilink and dentalink software suites let clinics create schedules, manage electronic health records, handle inventory, administer payroll and provide budgeting breakdowns and regulatory filings. They also have telehealth capabilities that allow patients to access their records on a mobile device.

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Altexsoft

APRIL 13, 2021

The insurance industry is notoriously bad at customer experience. In the last few years, Chinese tech giants have been making massive strides at becoming the center of insurance innovation. To compete, insurance companies revolutionize the industry using AI, IoT, and big data. Not in China though. Why automate claims?

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CIO

APRIL 23, 2024

The steps you need to take to deal with ransomware risks include all four risk/response strategies: They prevent (reduce the odds), mitigate (reduce the damage), and insure you from the worst outcomes (insurance is about sharing the costs). Insurance: You know how this plays out.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2023

To protect SVB’s former customers, who have around $175 billion in deposits, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) transferred assets to a new entity: the Deposit Insurance National Bank of Santa Clara. Insured customers who deposited $250,000 or less will have access to their money on Monday morning, according to the FDIC.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 21, 2021

In that role, I came across this opportunity because I tried to put a test budget into TikTok influencers. We are talking about rolling out creator-facing insurance, accounting services and much more.” “I was head of growth and then VP of Marketing for a company called Bellhop.

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CIO

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Perhaps the most visible of these efforts is in personal auto insurance. The ability to “personalize” their policy and fit it into their household budget has changed the industry. The use of a data platforms to drive new product offers and address customer needs is already beginning.

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CIO

JANUARY 11, 2023

As technology projects, budgets, and staffing grew over the past few years, the focus was on speed to market to maximize opportunity, says Troy Gibson, CIO services leader at business and IT advisory firm Centric Consulting. The challenge is finding ways to achieve these goals in an era of constricted budgets.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Finally, we were two months away from submitting this year’s budget, which is always a challenge because of the legwork that goes into a budget cycle. But I also needed to focus on strategy to make sure we had capacity in the budget for new initiatives. Budgeting, CIO, IT Leadership, IT Strategy It’s about value creation.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2021

Progress ive Investment Company (the insurance giant’s investment arm) led the round, which included participation from Obvious Ventures, Foundation Capital, Core Innovation Capital and others. The financing brings One’s total raised since its 2019 inception to $66 million.

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CIO

DECEMBER 5, 2023

“The net result is that some organizations’ technology debts are growing faster than anything else and robbing them of their budgets and ability to innovate.” The need to reorient IT’s budget toward future opportunities is one big reason CIOs are reviewing their IT portfolios now.

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CIO

MARCH 12, 2024

But disaster recovery is just one example of projects that are of an important and preemptive nature that CIOs want to fund but find de-prioritized when it comes to budget approval. Budgeting, Business Continuity, Data and Information Security, Disaster Recovery, IT Leadership, IT Strategy The average cost of a data breach is $4.64

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CIO

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Inflation may have dropped from its high in 2022, but the price pressures on IT budgets have continued unabated. Forty-one percent of the CIOs in the survey said they’ve changed their cycle for revisiting IT budgets to at least every month, says Tony Olvet, IDC’s VP of worldwide C-suite and digital business research.

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CIO

AUGUST 10, 2023

Lack of liability insurance can leave you exposed You might be thinking that your company will defend you for liability, and you might be right if your company has liability coverage for its officers, and you are an officer. But does your company have liability insurance for its executives? No, it does not. “D&O

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