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In Quentin Tarantino’s 1994 cult classic Pulp Fiction, when a situation deteriorates beyond control, everyone knows you call The Wolf. Arriving without the slightest hint of panic, he surveys the damage with practised calm and begins issuing instructions. Within minutes, chaos has been reduced to a sequence of manageable decisions. Insurance has long relied on people capable of performing a similar role. Actuaries are the professionals insurers turn to when risk becomes too complex for instinct alone.

The evolving role of actuaries in the age of AI

In Quentin Tarantino’s 1994 cult classic Pulp Fiction, when a situation deteriorates beyond control, everyone knows you call The Wolf. Arriving without the slightest...
AI

Governing AI without slowing down

If the first two parts of The Accountability Gap exposed the problem and questioned where decisions should sit, the next challenge is execution: how...
crime

How machine intelligence is transforming financial crime detection

Financial crime detection is being quietly rebuilt from the ground up. What was once a rules-driven discipline - defined by static thresholds, retrospective reviews,...
Artificial intelligence may dominate the current conversation around insurance technology, but the story of InsurTech itself has followed a different trajectory. A decade ago, the sector was defined by the promise of disruption. Venture capital flowed into startups promising to rebuild insurance from the ground up. This swell of momentum saw surged to record levels, peaking at more than $15bn globally in 2021, according to CB Insights.

The next phase of InsurTech: From disruption to durability

Artificial intelligence may dominate the current conversation around insurance technology, but the story of InsurTech itself has followed a different trajectory. A decade ago,...
The headlines arrive faster than anyone can process them. Missile strikes. Warnings of retaliation. Oil markets jolt as tensions rise around the Strait of Hormuz. Governments scramble to evacuate citizens. Across television studios and diplomatic corridors, the same uneasy question returns: when will this conflict stop?

What the US-Iran conflict reveals about global insurance risk

The headlines arrive faster than anyone can process them. Missile strikes. Warnings of retaliation. Oil markets jolt as tensions rise around the Strait of...

How purpose-built AI is transforming compliance from detective controls into preventive controls

As AI rewrites the playbook for financial crime and conduct risk, Behavox founder and CEO Erkin Adylov explains how purpose-built models are shifting compliance...
compliance

Who is the owner of decisions in the age of automated compliance?

Automation was intended to make compliance cleaner, delivering faster decisions, more consistent outcomes, and fewer human errors, but it has made ownership much less...
In the first half of 2025, natural disasters caused around $131bn in potential insurance losses globally. Only about $80bn of that was insured. What remains is an uninsured black hole larger than the GDP of Bahrain.

How extreme weather is widening insurance protection gaps

In the first half of 2025, natural disasters caused around $131bn in potential insurance losses globally. Only about $80bn of that was insured. What...
For years, artificial intelligence has quietly tiptoed in the background of insurance claims, surfacing information, flagging risks and helping humans make decisions, but rarely taking action itself. That is beginning to change. Those stealthy steps are now becoming bashful plods, as AI's impact on the decision-making process surges.

Insurance claims rewired: The rise of agentic AI

For years, artificial intelligence has quietly tiptoed in the background of insurance claims, surfacing information, flagging risks and helping humans make decisions, but rarely...
The state of regulatory change management

The state of regulatory change management

Compliance change management is a major challenge for financial institutions as they attempt to analyse hundreds of new regulations and updates every year. Alison...

News Stories

Hamachi.ai patents AI system to protect client data

Hamachi.ai patents AI system to protect client data

Hamachi.ai, a California-based WealthTech company focused on AI for regulated financial services, has secured a US patent for technology designed to protect sensitive client...
Parafin expands embedded finance with Tekion partnership

Parafin expands embedded finance with Tekion partnership

Parafin, an embedded finance company, has partnered with Tekion to bring flexible B2B financing directly into the automotive technology provider's dealer platform. The partnership will...

Ripple Treasury closes the gap on ungoverned AI agents

Ripple, the blockchain-based payments and digital asset infrastructure provider, has expanded GSmart, the treasury-native artificial intelligence engine embedded within Ripple Treasury, adding a wider...

Saldo Bank teams up with finperks on cashback push

finperks, the Berlin-based API infrastructure provider for the global prepaid market, and Saldo Bank, a Finnish retail bank, have entered into a partnership that...
Acrisure bets on Palantir to reshape insurance workflows

More than $4.5bn raised across 18 FinTech deals

FinTech companies and technology firms raised more than $4.5bn across 18 funding deals this week, led by Mistral's record €3bn raise and a series...

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