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Technology
Holding taxpayers at ransom
August 6, 2019 James Steele, Lawyer, Robertson Stromberg LLPHow cybercriminals are stealing municipal data – and how to prevent it
Outshine the gaggle on Google
August 3, 2019 Adam Malik, Managing EditorHow to stand out from the crowd on the world’s biggest search engine without blowing the budget on a fancy website.
Aviva seeks startups for road safety program
July 25, 2019 by Jason ContantAviva Canada and venture capital company Highline Beta have joined forces to launch a road safety and smart city accelerator. Applications to the Safe × Connected Cities Accelerator were open to early-stage startup applicants beginning Wednesday, with a deadline of…
Insurtech platform bridges gaps in agricultural insurance
July 24, 2019 by Jason ContantA Winnipeg-based provider of scalable digital solutions for the agricultural industry has launched what it calls the industry’s first insurtech platform combining field-level data, remote sensing, artificial intelligence-driven models and secure automation technology. The platform creates a “new digital connection…
Handwritten data
July 8, 2019 Greg Meckbach, Associate EditorMachine learning and optical character recognition can help brokers enter data from forms, but it still often takes human effort to read handwriting
CRM Convert
July 4, 2019 Adam Malik, Managing EditorWhy are brokers afraid of lead generation software? Dave Vass of Trufla Technology makes the case for a client relations management solution
How not to manage risk at a cryptocurrency provider
June 21, 2019 Michael MacDonald - THE CANADIAN PRESSHALIFAX – The accounting firm investigating the unseemly demise of Canada’s QuadrigaCX cryptocurrency exchange is accusing the company’s late founder of creating fake trades and transferring customer funds into his personal accounts, where the money was used for high-risk margin…
Digitizing your brokerage? Pay attention to the ‘frozen middle’
June 21, 2019 by Jason ContantWhat’s the secret to successful digital transformation? The key is to get buy-in from the lower levels of the organization, said Paul Chapman, chief information officer (CIO) at Box Inc., a provider of cloud content management and file-sharing service for…
Apollo forced to admit gluten-free insurance policy does not contain blockchain
June 21, 2019 by David DyckVANCOUVER, BC, June 14, 2019/InsPress/ — Apollo Insurance has reluctantly admitted that its recently announced gluten-free insurance policy is not in fact on the blockchain. After thorough examination by excited parties the insurtech firm was forced to backpedal on rumours…
Data breach affects nearly 3 million Desjardins Group members
June 20, 2019 THE CANADIAN PRESSMONTREAL – Desjardins Group said Thursday the personal information of more than 2.9 million of its members has been shared with individuals outside of the organization. The Quebec-based financial institution said the breach affects 2.7 million individual members and 173,000…
Apollo launches AXIS Insurance on the Exchange
June 20, 2019 by David DyckVANCOUVER, BC, June 20, 2019/InsPress/ — AXIS Insurance, a business segment of AXIS Capital Holdings Limited (NYSE:AXS) has partnered with Apollo Insurance to offer bind online insurance products through the Apollo Exchange. As with every Exchange product, the entire process,…
One way to minimize double entry of data
June 19, 2019 by Jason ContantOne question often on the minds of brokers is how do they better digitize their processes and minimize the amount of data they have to enter into various systems. “Our position is that data should be created in a digital…