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3 life insurance underwriting predictions for 2023

3 life insurance underwriting predictions for 2023

As the insurance industry continues to navigate the pace of change, complexity and uncertainty in our world, consumers continue to respond, expecting companies to be more responsive to their needs. This year’s underwriting predictions offer guidance on how carriers can respond faster.…

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Mainframe Modernisation

Why smart insurers are modernizing their mainframe now

In a market that calls on insurers to be agile and digitize at scale, an insurer’s mainframe can either catalyze or inhibit progress. While the mainframe was once a valuable core technological function, many legacy mainframes lack the agility to meet the…

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Insurance News: 2022 in review

As we near the end of 2022, the insurance industry is responding to disruption across all lines of business. From customers concerned about crypto losses to employers still assessing the risks of COVID-19, insurers are finding ways to offer protection. In this…

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How insurers can win the race to AI maturity

How insurers can win the race to AI maturity

Artificial intelligence has been around since the 1950s, but over the last several years the business potential of AI has expanded dramatically. We now live in a world where big data and powerful computational capabilities allow AI to flourish. Companies—including insurance carriers—are…

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Counting the insurance costs from the 2022 hurricane season

Insurance News: Counting the insurance costs from the 2022 hurricane season

Insurers and their customers in Florida may feel some relief with the end of this year’s hurricane season. But restoration from the damage left by Ian and Nicole is just beginning. And so are the questions about how the insurance industry will…

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Takeaways from InsureTech Connect 2022

Takeaways from InsureTech Connect 2022

This year’s InsureTech Connect conference brought together an incredible group of carriers and some of the industry’s most innovative insurtechs to connect over the technology that’s transforming the insurance landscape. ITC provided an opportunity to understand what’s happening in the insurance community…

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Bringing insurance industry innovation to AWS re:Invent

Bringing insurance industry innovation to AWS re:Invent

A year ago at re:Invent, Accenture and AWS announced a joint investment to accelerate cloud migration and industry differentiation for our clients. Increasing demand in commercial underwriting made insurance the obvious industry to blaze the trail. At AWS re:Invent 2022, Anand Premsundar…

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How to address the urgent insurance workforce gap with technology

How to address the urgent insurance workforce gap with technology

The insurance industry is experiencing a growing talent shortage. While this challenge has been anticipated, much of the discussion on solutions is often generalized to the entire workforce. But not every job will be impacted in the same way. As insurers grow,…

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How Insurers can channel the power of Web3

How insurers can channel the power of Web3

As technology closes the gap between the real and the virtual, it has become more important than ever for carriers to consider how customer needs – and their ability to meet them – are going to evolve. In our recent Accenture Insurance…

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Putting agents first in embedded insurance

Putting agents first in embedded insurance

While product design—including technology and architecture capabilities—is foundational for carriers to play in the embedded insurance space, strategically leveraging the agent will exponentially increase the likelihood of an embedded product’s success. We believe agents could play a major role in embedded insurance…

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