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2 weeks ago | 
datos-insights.com | Tim Baum |Christine Barry |James Wolstenholme
As we move through 2025, the property and casualty (P/C) insurance industry continues to experience transformation in core systems modernization. According to recent Datos Insights research, large and midsize insurers have largely completed their core system replacements, while smaller and specialty insurers now seeking to modernize their policy administration solutions (PAS).
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2 weeks ago | 
datos-insights.com | Christine Barry
At Datos Insights’ recent Corporate Banking Executive Council meeting at the end of March, banking leaders emphasized the critical nature of treasury management innovation despite economic uncertainties.
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1 month ago | 
datos-insights.com | Caitlin Simmons |Mitch Wein
The property and casualty (P&C) insurance industry is undergoing a significant technological transformation. The Datos Insights report, Competitive Capabilities for Property and Casualty Insurers 2025, provides valuable insights into how P&C insurers are leveraging technology to gain competitive advantages across various functional areas.
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1 month ago | 
datos-insights.com | Mitch Wein |Robin LoGiudice
The specialty insurance market continues its rapid evolution as insurers adapt to changing regulations, emerging risks, and technological advances. Despite pockets of hard markets in areas like coastal property and cyber insurance, rates in many lines of business continue to moderate, putting pressure on insurers to find efficiencies. Specialty insurers are operating in a market with increasing underwriting capacity and moderating rate increases for many lines.
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2 months ago | 
datos-insights.com | William Trout |Mitch Wein |Deb Zawisza |Robin LoGiudice
Contract disputes over data licensing and usage rights are a significant issue in the financial services industry. A case in Canada recently covered in Ignites involving BNY Mellon highlights patterns in how enterprise data contracts can be mishandled, particularly in large organizations with multiple divisions and subsidiaries.
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2 months ago | 
datos-insights.com | Deb Zawisza |Mitch Wein |Robin LoGiudice
The insurance industry is facing a high-stakes showdown. In one corner stands private equity, armed with billions in funding and an appetite for litigation returns. In the other, insurers are deploying artificial intelligence and predictive analytics in an increasingly sophisticated defense. When private equity (PE) firms enter insurance litigation, they bring Wall Street expectations—typically targeting 20%+ returns on their investments.
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2 months ago | 
datos-insights.com | Gabrielle Inhofe |Mitch Wein |Deb Zawisza |Robin LoGiudice
As financial crime tactics become increasingly sophisticated, financial institutions (FIs) are gradually turning to artificial intelligence (AI) for solutions to detect potentially fraudulent activities and transactions. Integrating AI can support higher predictive accuracy, but AI models are often opaque—“black boxes” lacking transparency into how the models arrive at their fraud risk predictions. This lack of interpretability is particularly concerning for fraud detection use cases.
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2 months ago | 
datos-insights.com | Jane Ginn |Mitch Wein |Deb Zawisza |Robin LoGiudice
The financial services industry faces significant uncertainty following the announcement on February 3, 2025, of an immediate stop work order affecting all Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) regulatory and enforcement activities. This development has particular implications for the implementation of Section 1033’s final rule on consumer data access rights, which was scheduled to begin taking effect for large institutions in April 2026.
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2 months ago | 
datos-insights.com | Mitch Wein |Deb Zawisza |Robin LoGiudice
I had the pleasure to chair the TINtech session in London on February 4 covering “Data Excellence: Driving Competitive Advantage in Specialty Insurance.” Our panel consisted of Bent Isachsen, Chief Operating Officer, Hamilton, and Ben Ormerod, CDO, Hampden Risk Partners. The session explored the findings of Datos’ data maturity study conducted in the UK insurance market, focusing on how organisations are leveraging data to drive competitive advantage.
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2 months ago | 
datos-insights.com | Enrico Camerinelli |Gabrielle Inhofe |Gilles Ubaghs
In the world of corporate software and digital services, “customization” was long considered a forbidden word. The industry’s standard response was to offer “configuration” instead—a limited set of predefined options that users could toggle within carefully controlled boundaries. This approach was born not from a lack of understanding about the value of true customization but from technological constraints and the prohibitive costs of maintaining truly customized solutions.