Risk models are OK, says famous researcher and quant who predicted the subprime crisis, but they need to be paired with common sense rather than a sheep-like mentality.

Northwestern Mutual (Milwaukee, Wis.) has launched a new online cost calculator to help users better understand the financial impact of long-term care needs.

U.S. small businesses say they are facing demands from insurance companies for the biggest premium hikes in years.

The new version of Sircon for carriers allows appointment requests to be processed for an entire set of producers from a simple spreadsheet upload with minimal effort, according to the vendor.

Malaysian brokerage firm utilizes SunGard's GL Net to trade directly on Malaysia derivatives marketplace.

AnswerMine Group has released the Mortgage Analytics Service, an analytics-based solution for targeted mortgage restructuring, mortgage portfolio valuation and risk management.

Inter-Pacific Securities uses SunGard's GL Net for direct market access to Malaysia

JonesTrading announced that Will Geyer, the firm's president and CEO, left the firm on October 15th to pursue other opportunities.

New data feed provides information about mortgage originations and performance.

Senior White House officials said Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., would introduce a bill to allow the government to seize troubled U.S. non-bank firms.

Senior White House officials said Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., would introduce a bill to allow the government to seize troubled U.S. non-bank firms.

Developing proprietary programs, measuring latency, expanding the footprint and meeting the ever-increasing need for speed.

Check in with some of last year's Elite 8 honorees to find out what IT leaders have been up to and how their roles may have changed in the past year.

Virgin Money, the consumer credit arm of British tycoon Richard Branson's business empire, has applied for a full banking license, documents indicate.

Are insurance CIOs who aim to align IT with the business actually conceding that IT is not part of the business? Instead, asserts Bob Evans, SVP and Director, InformationWeek's Global CIO, they should align IT with the company's future: its

CEO Steve Rasmussen says spreading business expertise across the company will support the attraction and retention of customers of both insurance and financial services product lines.

NAU County Insurance, PEMCO Mutual and TRISTAR Risk Management have each selected Hyland Software's OnBase enterprise content management (ECM) software suite.

Long-time insurance tech exec will serve as VP, Client Services & Solutions.

SunGard's Compass suite for policy administration enables future expansion of group business by providing support for group wealth and voluntary products.

Derivix, a software company providing options pricing, analytics and real-time risk visualization, has now integrated with Greenmoor Financial Group (GFG), a Chicago-based introducing broker.