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July 8, 2026
hx Live London 2026: Keynote Highlights
Explore the hx Live London 2026 keynote highlights, including hx platform updates, underwriting workflow demos, and the launch of hyperoperator for agentic underwriting.

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July 8, 2026
Going all the way: what is an agentic underwriting workbench and why does it matter?
hyperexponential's CEO on the future of the underwriting workbench and what it means for carriers and underwriters.

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July 8, 2026
Underwriting workbench guide: what it is, how it's evolving, and what to look for
What are underwriting workbenches? How have they evolved? What to look for next?

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July 8, 2026
Meet hyperoperator: the AI agent for commercial P&C underwriting
Introducing hyperoperator: the first AI agent for commercial P&C underwriting, running inside your appetite, pricing, and authority controls.

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June 24, 2026
Developer Spotlight: Ali Ghazi, AVP Pricing and Analytics at Sompo
In the 2nd edition of our Community Developer Spotlight series, Jon sits down with Ali Ghazi, Assistant Vice President - Pricing and Analytics at Sompo. To hear about his journey from actuarial roots to leading one of the most ambitious property model builds on the hx platform.

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June 4, 2026
Why fragmented intelligence is commercial underwriting's defining problem
When a new submission lands today, a pricing actuary's model sits in one system. An underwriter's workflow sits in another. Portfolio signals that would change the decision sit somewhere else entirely. Each of those systems might be good at what it does.

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May 1, 2026
Technology in modern insurance: building in-house tech teams
How Carbon Underwriting built a proprietary insurance technology platform from day one, and what insurers can learn about hiring, team structure, and competitive advantage.

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May 1, 2026
Why insurance transformations fail: the mindset shift leaders overlook
Most insurance digital transformation programs stall before they deliver. Here's why mindset, not technology, is where lasting change begins.

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May 1, 2026
Digital transformation in reinsurance: reshaping cedent-broker-reinsurer dynamics
Reinsurance technology is gaining traction through trust-first adoption. Learn why past platforms failed and what works for cedents, brokers, and reinsurers.

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May 1, 2026
Insurance orchestration: why the future is orchestrated, not built
Insurance orchestration coordinates multi-vendor, multi-cloud tools across lines and geographies to reduce vendor lock-in and improve flexibility.

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April 30, 2026
Insurance Investment from the Inside: How Corporate Venture Capital Is Reshaping Insurtech Partnerships
Learn how QBE Ventures reshapes insurance investment by starting with validated business problems, strategic partnerships, and corporate venture capital discipline.

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April 30, 2026
What Makes a Great Insurance Broker: Lessons from 30 Years in the London Market
Explore what makes a great insurance broker, from translating complex risk data to building trust across the London Market’s specialist placement chain.

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April 30, 2026
Smart Insurance Trading: How Algorithmic Matching Is Transforming the London Market
See how smart insurance trading and algorithmic matching are transforming London Market capacity placement, replacing manual negotiation with faster data-led workflows.

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April 16, 2026
Developer Spotlight: Ellen Savoye, Lead Pricing Developer at Markel
Jonathan Bowden sits down with Ellen Savoye, Lead Pricing Developer at Markel, to hear about her journey into technical pricing, how her team is approaching their pricing transformation, and what she's most excited about on the hx platform.

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April 9, 2026
The Chief Pricing Actuary of the future
The Chief Pricing Actuary of the future will blend classic actuarial expertise with new technical proficiencies and leadership skills. Explore what this means in practice and how the profession is adapting.

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March 27, 2026
Augmented underwriting: Apollo's AI-human partnership
Apollo deployed 19 AI models by augmenting underwriters, not replacing them. James Slaughter of Apollo shares the three-pillar approach that turned skepticism into adoption.

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March 27, 2026
MGA-carrier relationships: how alignment of interests drives profitable long-term partnerships
MGA-carrier relationships depend on aligned incentives and clear performance thresholds. Learn how contractual alignment drives profitable partnerships.

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March 27, 2026
Insurance underwriting teams: bridging analytics and intuition
Learn how insurance underwriting teams bridge analytics and intuition through shared accountability, backtesting, and trust-building practices from Aviva's CUO Karen Dayal.

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March 27, 2026
The Future of Insurance Underwriting: How AI Amplifies Judgment Without Replacing It

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March 27, 2026
State of AI in Underwriting 2026: 5 Key Takeaways
Most carriers are further along in AI conversations than AI outcomes. Here are five takeaways from the Celent State of AI in Underwriting 2026 webinar.

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March 24, 2026
Insurance Technology in 2026: How AI is Reshaping Vendor-Carrier Relationships for Insurance Organizations

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March 20, 2026
Why open source models are the way forward for insurers
The shift from proprietary to open source AI models gives insurers new freedom to build flexible, vendor-independent AI systems focused on business value rather than model dependency.

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March 20, 2026
The autonomy decision: where underwriters judge and where agents execute
Adam Ben-David, Senior Director of AI at hx, explains how underwriting teams should think through the autonomy decision and what it takes to stay in control of a system that acts on your behalf.

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March 19, 2026
What to Look for in a Commercial Insurance Underwriting Workbench
Underwriters in large commercial lines spend 30–40% of their time on administrative work like rekeying data and running manual analyses, according to McKinsey. The...

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March 16, 2026
Why do rate change metrics miss millions in hidden losses?
Rate change ignores profitability impact from policy wording drift. Learn more about using AI to track year-over-year coverage expansions at scale.

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March 13, 2026
Insurance technology in 2026: why execution beats experimentation
Insurance technology in 2026 is shifting from AI experimentation to execution. Learn how carriers are scaling pilots into production value.

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March 4, 2026
Excel vs Python for insurance actuarial analysis: Which should you choose?
Excel vs Python for Data Analysis: Learn when Excel becomes inadequate and why integrated platforms deliver Python's power without complexity.

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February 27, 2026
Should insurers train their own LLMs?
Snr Director of AI at hyperexponential, Adam Ben-David, explains the difference between training, fine-tuning and self-healing AI

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February 23, 2026
What is algorithmic underwriting in insurance?
Discover how underwriting algorithms give insurers measurable competitive advantages: quote more business faster, improve loss ratios, and scale operations.

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February 11, 2026
Automated Insurance Underwriting: How It Works, Benefits & Limits
Learn how automated insurance underwriting works, where it delivers value for commercial P&C carriers, and where human judgment remains essential.

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January 9, 2026
Data integrations with hx
discover how integrations with the hx platform unlock new possibilities

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January 2, 2026
Agentic AI in insurance underwriting: 6 use cases
Agentic AI delivers more risks priced, more book written, and better loss ratio for commercial P&C insurers. Explore six use cases, implementation strategies, and ROI.

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December 19, 2025
AI for P&C Insurers: How carriers are driving efficiency
AI for P&C insurers means experts can achieve significant loss ratio improvements and faster quotes. Learn how carriers transform underwriting, claims, and fraud detection.

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December 12, 2025
Why speed without intelligence accelerates losses in a soft market
Commercial P&C carriers have spent decades optimizing for speed. Workbenches, AI submission ingestion, algorithmic underwriting, they all accelerate underwriting and eliminate manual processes.

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December 9, 2025
Submission Triage in Insurance: A Step-by-Step Guide
Learn how submission triage works in commercial P&C insurance, from intake to routing, and how AI is helping carriers prioritize high-value opportunities.

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December 8, 2025
Data ingestion software for insurers: A practical framework
Data ingestion software for insurers automates submission processing, eliminates manual re-keying, and accelerates quotes with AI platforms.

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December 4, 2025
Introducing Batch Rating: reprice portfolios in minutes, not hours
Reprice large portfolios quickly, confidently, and with far less effort than ever before in hx.

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December 2, 2025
Excel Alternatives for Insurance Pricing
This analysis provides a framework for evaluating when Excel no longer serves complex insurance pricing needs and what modern alternatives offer.

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December 2, 2025
How AI and Data Technology Are Transforming the Insurance Industry
Discover how AI and data technology are transforming the insurance industry and reshaping commercial P&C insurance.

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December 2, 2025
How insurance AI underwriting tools drive profitable growth for commercial carriers
Commercial P&C carriers achieve 2-4 point loss ratio improvements with integrated AI underwriting platforms. Compare workflow automation vs decision intelligence.

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December 2, 2025
How to Measure AI ROI in Commercial Insurance: 6 Proven Frameworks
Learn how to measure AI ROI in commercial P&C insurance using 6 proven frameworks. Includes combined ratio impact analysis and real carrier case studies.

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November 18, 2025
What is AI Submission Ingestion for Insurance?
AI submission ingestion extracts, classifies, and validates data from unstructured insurance documents. Learn how it works and why it matters for underwriting.

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November 12, 2025
Top 10 prompts to try with hx's Actuarial Agent
hyperexponential’s Actuarial Agent helps actuaries replace spreadsheet driven workflows with strategic and scalable processes. Discover prompt driven capabilities for communication, QA, integrations, model migration, and documentation, and shift your team from reactive tasks to high impact results. Try Actuarial Agent today.

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November 7, 2025
Will AI Take Over Actuary Jobs? 2025 Future of Actuaries
AI transforms actuarial work, not eliminates it. 22% growth projected through 2034 as AI automates tasks while expanding demand for expertise.

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November 7, 2025
Insurance Portfolio Optimization: Transform Risk Management 2026
Commercial carriers achieve 2-17.6 point combined ratio improvements through real-time portfolio optimization. Eliminate $100-180M annual opportunity costs.

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September 19, 2025
Where should MGAs leverage AI today?
Discover how MGAs can use AI to speed up quoting, improve pricing accuracy, strengthen broker relationships, and build scalable underwriting processes while protecting rate adequacy and adapting to emerging risks.

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September 17, 2025
Introducing Triage
From inbox overload to intelligent orchestration - hx announce new Triage solution connected directly to your pricing and rating stack.

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September 7, 2025
Could an MGA be the first one-person unicorn?
Sam Altman's prophecy; could it realise itself in the form of a Managing General Agent?

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August 11, 2025
Why pro-code solutions still empower business users
Alex Karet breaks down the common misconception that pro-code solutions don't enable business users without professional programming experience.

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July 25, 2025
Why I bet my career on insurance - and why you should too
Explore why i bet my career on insurance - and why you should too and discover how artificial intelligence and machine learning are transforming the insurance industry.

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July 18, 2025
Architecting Scalability - The case for pro-code in pricing complex risk
Alex Karet lays out the compelling case for pro-code tools when building scalable solutions for complex risk scenarios

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June 25, 2025
Lloyd’s Pricing Maturity Matrix: best practice tips to help you achieve pricing excellence
Outperform the market with these pricing best practices from the Lloyd’s Pricing Maturity Matrix.

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June 6, 2025
Why legacy pricing models hinder agility
Excel-based and legacy pricing tools simply cannot compete in a fiercely competitive market

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June 3, 2025
WET models: deploy faster without premature abstraction
In actuarial model development, repeating yourself might be the smartest move. Here’s why delaying abstraction leads to faster, more flexible models.

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May 29, 2025
The impact of delay costs on a build or buy decision
The decision to build or buy must be weighed not just in terms of technical ownership, but through the dual lenses of Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and Time to Value (TTV).

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May 19, 2025
Handling complex submissions with AI
AI transforms a manual, error-prone underwriter task into a 100% automated, accurate solution.

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May 12, 2025
Build vs Buy: Reimagining the path to value
Pricing transformation has emerged as a strategic priority across the insurance industry, and deciding whether to build or buy is a critical decision in the process.

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April 25, 2025
Fixing Feedback Loops Between Underwriters and Actuaries
Strong collaboration between underwriters and actuarial teams are essential for driving stronger risk-adjusted returns.

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April 11, 2025
How Granular Underwriting Data Powers Advanced Analytics Capabilities
Underwriting decisions are contextual and data-driven with granular data powering advanced analytics

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April 10, 2025
Why all actuaries should be pro coders
Jamie Wilson dives into the future of pricing complex risk and why all actuaries should become pro coders to keep pace with the rapidly changing landscape.

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April 4, 2025
The risk of poor governance in insurance pricing and underwriting
Poor governance leads to fragmented and unstable systems that hinder growth. Here's how to introduce seamless governance to pricing workflows.

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April 1, 2025
Unlocking the power of clean data in insurance
Data is the lifeblood of insurance decision-making. From underwriting to pricing and risk assessment, insurers rely on accurate, well-structured data to make informed decisions.

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March 21, 2025
Unlocking the power of data capture in underwriting
By ensuring no data is lost or siloed, hx empowers insurers to turn overlooked information into actionable intelligence—driving better decision-making and long-term profitability.

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March 12, 2025
AI best practices for model development
Explore ai best practices for model development and discover how artificial intelligence and machine learning are transforming the insurance industry.

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March 7, 2025
Why underwriting inefficiency is holding back performance and profitability
Underwriters deserve better—but legacy processes are holding them back

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February 27, 2025
Swiss Re and hyperexponential: Integrating CatNet® with hx Renew
In a recent webinar, we explored how hyperexponential's recent partnership with Swiss Re was unlocking value for our customers

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February 24, 2025
hx for SME: 5 reasons to take back control of your rates and rules
Discover key benefits of the hx platform for IT teams, from seamless data integrations to robust security measures.

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January 24, 2025
Los Angeles Wildfires: A catalyst for change in the insurance industry
We explore how the 2025 Los Angeles wildfires highlight key and ongoing challenges for insurers responding to escalating climate risk.

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January 10, 2025
Tackling technical debt in the insurance industry
Tackle problems like outdated pricing models, fragile spreadsheets, inefficient and highly manual workflows, poor actuary-underwriter collaboration, and a lack of quality accessible data.

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January 9, 2025
Python for the insurance industry: hx workshop recap
Recapping the first-ever hyperexponential Python workshop, bringing actuaries together for a hands-on session to expand their python skills.

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January 9, 2025
Automation in the specialty insurance market – how hard is it really?
An underwriting transformation specialist explores the state of automation in the specialty insurance market and solutions to maximise underwriter efficiency.

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January 9, 2025
All about Custom User Interface Components: FAQs and a new certification
Learn all about the power of Custom User Interface Components in Insurance pricing in this article that will help you generate new insights into your pricing.

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January 9, 2025
Bridging the expectation chasm: Insurance and the impact of artificial intelligence
How is cutting-edge technology, like AI, being implemented in the insurance industry?

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January 9, 2025
Introducing our new Treaty Excess of Loss (XoL) Reinsurance model
By streamlining model development, the Treaty XoL model reduces build time by up to 80%, empowering reinsurers to operate more efficiently. Learn all about it here.

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December 3, 2024
AI for Actuaries: Three key use cases
I’m genuinely excited about the possibilities AI and ML present for our industry. These technologies will empower insurers to maximize existing resources, harness previously untapped or underutilized data, and automate time-consuming tasks, to allow for more focus on value-driven work. Actuaries will be able to develop more robust pricing models, and ultimately drive business success.

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October 31, 2024
The top 3 challenges of implementing Machine Learning for London Market pricing
Explore the top 3 challenges of implementing machine learning for london market pricing and discover how artificial intelligence and machine learning are transforming the insurance industry.

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September 26, 2024
The transformative power of AI in Underwriting: Exploring practical applications
Risa Ryan shares her thoughts on how AI and ML will help address longstanding underwriting challenges

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January 19, 2024
Is Python the right programming language for insurance?
Uncover how Python excels in handling challenges for the insurance industry, offering solutions that outperform other programming languages in efficiency and flexibility. Explore practical applications and understand why Python is a top choice for forward-thinking professionals in the insurance industry

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January 9, 2024
Why the perfect formula for pricing tools doesn’t include Excel
Complex risks need reliable, accurate rating tools and pricing processes. Excel-based pricing systems don’t cut it. Here are five reasons why.

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December 5, 2023
Underwriting 3.0: Exploring the future of underwriting
Are you ready for the future of underwriting? Discover a bold vision of rich data, empowered decision-making, and seamless workflows. This is Underwriting 3.0.

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August 15, 2023
The impact of the Project Rio and the Lloyd's Pricing Maturity Matrix on specialty insurance pricing
Lloyd's recently launched their 'Principles of Doing Business,' outlining the responsibilities of all managing agents. This blog covers our summary of the new principles and includes a guide on how to stay compliant.

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August 14, 2023
Pricing effectively within an ever-changing reinsurance landscape
See the key drivers for digital transformations within the reinsurance sector and why pricing has established itself as a key initiative for successful reinsurers.

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July 13, 2023
Machine Learning in Insurance: AI Applications for Actuaries and Underwriters
Explore how Machine Learning and AI technologies are transforming the insurance industry, with practical insights for actuaries, underwriters, and insurtech professionals.

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July 13, 2023
Solving the machine learning data challenge: How well can you fake it?
Explore solving the machine learning data challenge: how well can you fake it? and discover how artificial intelligence and machine learning are transforming the insurance industry.

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July 13, 2023
Four challenges facing the specialty insurance industry
Specialty insurers face evolving challenges in a technology-driven world. To thrive, they must embrace digital transformation and leverage technology for agile risk management.

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July 13, 2023
The technology-driven future of insurance
Technology is transforming many industries presenting both opportunity and threat to the status quo. It has created a new breed of market disrupters, but it is also enabling many traditional organisations to re-invent themselves in the digital era.

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July 12, 2023
The hunt for truth: Why is exploratory data analysis important?
Explore the hunt for truth: why is exploratory data analysis important? and discover how artificial intelligence and machine learning are transforming the insurance industry.


