PDF Technology Preferred by over 130 Million Users is Now Available on Apple Mobile Devices Foxit Corporation, a leading provider of solutions for reading, editing, creating, organizing, and securing PDF documents, today announced the ...
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Germany-based insurance and financial services provider, Generali Deutschland has deployed SunGard's iWorks ERM Platform, to enhance the efficiency, accuracy and auditability of its actuarial calculations and risk review process. The ...
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The Treasury Committee requested that RBS chief executive Stephen Hester provide a detailed explanation of what went wrong at the bank to cause its ongoing IT issues. In a letter to the bank, Andrew Tyrie, chairman of the Treasury ...
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July 27, 2012 /24-7PressRelease/ -- To comply with the obligations of the pending Treating Customers Fairly (TCF) policy, the South African insurance industry must speed up the implementation of customer profiling and targeted, effective ...
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Regulators must force banks to overhaul complex IT infrastructures which risk causing further large-scale system outages, IT trade body Intellect has urged. The UK’s financial IT infrastructure is no longer fit for purpose and risks ...
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Wells Fargo Insurance has selected Bob Volkel to lead its Bay Area operations,in an effort to continue growing its presence in the region and to ensure better customer service management. With the new appointment,Wells Fargo Insurance has ...
The financial services industry is undergoing massive change. The global economic crisis, on-going Eurozone challenges and well publicised banking scandals have left the sector with a severely tarnished reputation and under real scrutiny. ...
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Towers Watson has struck a deal with US based Medicare insurer Extend Health to acquire the firm for about$435m in cash,less net debt and certain transaction costs. The acquirer said that it anticipates the acquisition will be dilutive to ...
Hundreds of thousands of US public sector workers have access to cloud-based collaboration software from UK IT firm Huddle after two major US government departments sign up. A version of Huddle used by the UK government, which sits on a ...
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The UK's financial services sector needs urgent investment in its IT infrastructure in order to identify and mitigate systemic risks,according to a report by the trade association for the UK technology sector,Intellect. In its Biting the ...
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Big data analytics has the potential to reduce the growing number of cyber security risks and increase business agility, says a report by the Information Security Forum (ISF). According to the Data Analytics for Information Security ...
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Dutch insurer ING has inked an agreement with Pacific Century Group (PCG) to dispose of its underwriting business units in Hong Kong, Macau and Thailand for a combined consideration of $2.14bn (€1.64bn) in cash. Its insurance ...
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Cyber attackers who disrupted the websites of U.S. banks over the last two weeks used a highly sophisticated toolkit — a finding that points to a well-funded operation, a security vendor has said. Prolexic Technologies said the ...
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Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) will have access to cloud-based supercomputers to run complex engineering simulations, under a euro 16m project backed by the European Commission (EC). The project, part of the EC’s Factory ...
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Zurich Insurance has extended an IT application outsourcing contract with CSC, which could lead to the relationship spanning 19 years. A seven-year extension to a deal originally penned in 2004, which will start in 2013, also has the ...
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