Lloyd's/London Market

Lloyd’s List Intelligence Opens Centre of Excellence in Chennai, India

This Friday, Lloyd’s List Intelligence,will inaugurate its new Centre of Excellence for Data & Technology in Chennai, India. The centre will be one of the company’s largest global offices and underscores both the growing demand […]

Technology

How Big Data is Shaping the Future of Online Slot Design

Big data has been incredibly influential for the online casino industry. The technology has allowed operators to create the best possible experiences for potential customers and existing members. Everything from offering personalized experiences through bonuses […]

Big Data

Charles Taylor Launches Cloud Based Insurance Product Platform

Charles Taylor InsureTech has launched the world’s first Cloud-based life, health and protection insurance platform. Using InsureTech’s cloud-based platform, life, health and protection insurers can now launch and scale-up new products in a matter of […]

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Artificial Intelligence

Insurers must be held back in public data scramble

There must be limits to the way our publicly available data is accessed and used by private organisations such as insurance companies. I am as enthused about social media as anyone, but a free for all backed by the resources of a £20bn industry cannot be enabled without a substantial ethical debate. […]

Big Data

Father of the Web warns insurers against data profligacy

Sir Tim Berners-Lee has urged insurers to avoid the temptation of using increasing amounts of publicly available data about consumers on the web to price their products.

The inventor of the World Wide Web made a plea to the industry at the British Insurance Brokers’s Association conference in Manchester yesterday, requesting that information we share about ourselves on line – particularly by young people through social networks – should not be gathered for the purposes of pricing risk. […]