US-based multi-line insurer group Farmers Insurance, has appointed John Mueting as the new head of its broker dealer business Farmers Financial Solutions (FFS), which delivers an array of financial service products to consumers. Mueting ...
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Sun Life Financial’s Employee Benefits Group has rolled out two group voluntary accident insurance plans, which enable employers to select the benefit schedules that meet the demographic and budgetary needs of their employees. The ...
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China as a market for international firms is growing in size and importance by the day. Doing business here, however, can still be a huge pain. At least that is the view of European companies operating in the country, according to a ...
Guardian Life Insurance, a mutual life insurer and a provider of employee benefits, has appointed Caitlin Pincus as senior vice president of Strategy & Guardian Labs and Dean Del Vecchio as senior vice president and chief information ...
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TransRe, a global reinsurer wholly owned by Alleghany, has selected MetricStream to provide a consolidated approach for an integrated, flexible solution for its risk and compliance management needs. MetricStream's federated information ...
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Manulife Financial, a Canada-based financial services group, has expanded its CoverMe life insurance products with the addition of CoverMe Easy Issue Life insurance plan. Intended for adults, the Easy Issue is a 10yr life insurance plan ...
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NSW government agencies will now be required to evaluate Cloud-based services when undertaking new procurements under the state's first Cloud services policy. The policy, announced today by incoming financial services minister Andrew ...
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The New York Department of Financial Services (DFS) has ordered Lloyd's of London to furnish the comprehensive details about the findings of its internal market investigation over the potential violations of the US sanction laws, while ...
VeriClaim, an operating subsidiary of T&H c, has acquired Property Claims Services (PCS) for an undisclosed amount to improve its loss adjusting presence in the south and central US. The acquisition will also expand property and casualty ...
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According to the annual BMO Back to School Survey released, retailers should expect to see a boost from back-to-school shopping this year as Canadians plan to spend more on school materials compared to last year. According to the survey, ...
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Piers Linney, co-founder and CEO of cloud services and unified communications company Outsourcery, believes that it will take the cloud between five and 10 years to fully mature. In an interview with Computing, the entrepreneur, who has ...
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Hewlett-Packard reassigned Enterprise Group chief Dave Donatelli on Wednesday as it reported an 8 percent decline in revenue for its fiscal third quarter, saying all of its major divisions except software brought in less money than a year ...
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The UK healthcare organizations will have to invest around £294m between 2013 and 2015 to replace outdated diagnostic equipment alone, says study. Demand for healthcare services and expectations of healthcare quality are rising ...
Unix, the core server operating system in enterprise networks for decades, now finds itself in a slow, inexorable decline. IDC predicts that Unix server revenue will slide from $10.2 billion in 2012 to $8.7 billion in 2017, and Gartner sees ...
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IDC expects that China's IT security appliance market will grow 14.7% to US$950 million in 2013; and this figure will reach US$1.56 billion by 2017, with a 2012-2017 CAGR of 13.5%. According to IDC, China's IT security appliance market ...