August 2015

After years of anticipation, preparations for the implementation of Solvency II in 2016 are now well underway in London.

Successful hurricane forecasting requires a clear understanding of what is going on inside a tropical cyclone system and the various forces driving its development. Detailed and accurate data about wind speeds, air pressure, humidity, sea surface temperatures, and a host of other factors are needed to build this picture.

Since Touchstone®'s first release, the inclusion of a comprehensive set of APIs has allowed the integration of other systems with Touchstone. With the release of Touchstone 3.0 we continue to expand our API capabilities.

It was one of those late nights in office a few days after I moved to Singapore, when I felt slight vibrations on the floor. Having lived in San Francisco, the first thing that came to mind was; is it an Earthquake?

You can't forecast earthquakes the way you can hurricanes or floods, but Earthquake Early Warning (EEW) systems may be the next best thing.

Boston is basically a hill in a harbor surrounded by low-lying land reclaimed from salt marsh (fens) in the 1800s. In addition to hurricane and earthquake risk, it is increasingly threatened by flood.

Insurers writing business in the U.S. face a different set of rate filing rules and regulatory requirements in each state and the District of Columbia. It was the McCarran-Ferguson Act of 1945 that set the stage for state-based regulation of insurance in the U.S.—a contrast to most other countries in the world where the insurance industry is regulated at the country level.