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Insurance & Technology
September 16, 2005
Anthony O'Donnell |
Strategic Track An interview with Kevin Murray, Executive VP and CIO of AXA Financial on overseeing the company's integration of MONY's technology following its acquisition, and attempting a reorientation of the firm's technology from a tactical approach to a more strategic footing, and from a development/maintenance model to a product-, service- and distribution-focused paradigm.   |
Insurance & Technology
February 1, 2006
Anthony O'Donnell |
Beating the Clock How MetLife's executive vice-president and CIO Steve Sheinheit handled an estimated 3-year IT integration of Travelers Life and Annuity's systems in 11 months. |
Insurance & Technology
February 19, 2004
Peggy Bresnick-Kendler |
Technology and the Urge To Merge Whether buying a smaller company at bargain prices or participating in a massive "merger of equals" deal, insurers must carefully evaluate IT compatibilities and costs. |
Insurance & Technology
August 7, 2008
Anthony O'Donnell |
Policy Admin System Replacement: Insurers Shift Focus From Systems to Functionalities Interboro Insurance Co.'s policy administration replacement initiative was in key respects a classic case. |
Insurance & Technology
October 12, 2009
Anthony O'Donnell |
AXA's Kevin Murray Steals a March on Crisis Elite 8 honoree Kevin Murray's aggressive transformation agenda at AXA Equitable has better positioned the life and annuities firm to respond to the challenges and opportunities of the post-crisis market. |
Bank Technology News
November 2003
Jeremy Quittner |
Finding Equals in a Merger Jean Davis's responsibility is to integrate all of Wachovia's systems, technologies and operations since its 2001 merger with First Union. It wasn't a cake walk, but the new entity is beginning to hum. |
Bank Systems & Technology
January 14, 2004
Peggy Bresnick Kendler |
Managing M&As Technology is playing an increasingly important role in the revived M&A market in financial services. |
InternetNews
August 5, 2005
Drew Robb |
Symantec-Veritas Deal Proves Timely Panned at first, the merger of security and storage giants turned out to be well-timed. The combined stock is now on the upswing. |
Bank Systems & Technology
September 29, 2005
Peggy Bresnick Kendler |
Mergers & Acquisitions An interview with five financial industry specialists on technology assets as drivers behind a merger or acquisition and how integrating systems post-merger often presents the biggest challenge to realizing the value of a deal. |
CIO
December 23, 2008
David F. Carr |
What IT Leaders Need to Know About Getting Mergers Done Right Whether it's a shotgun merger or a planned acquisition, chances are you're not ready for it. Here's how to change that. |
Insurance & Technology
July 12, 2010
Anthony O'Donnell |
Former Travelers CIO Bill Bloom Joins Outsourcing Company EXL In the newly created role of executive vice president, global client services, Bloom will lead all of EXL's client-facing functions in a unified fashion including sales and marketing, strategic account management, and transformation services. |
CIO
August 15, 2002
Ben Worthen |
Mergers and Acquisitions Many of the CIO-100 honorees were thrust into the theater of integration following a merger. These companies shared the same urgent pace of integration as they streamlined processes and combined systems. |
CIO
April 1, 2004
Alice Dragoon |
Banks Fight Customer Fligtht Following mergers, banks used to sacrifice customer service in favor of speedy integration and cost-cutting. But no more. Here's how CIOs are helping banks implement a new postmerger mandate to focus on customer service. |
Insurance & Technology
April 4, 2007
Nathan Conz |
Linking Up Online Travelers reaches out to online customers through partnerships with independent agencies, including Commerce Banc Insurance Services. |
Insurance & Technology
January 5, 2007
Bill Bloom |
Available Technologies Support Innovation The demands on Travelers' IT organization have never been greater. |
Insurance & Technology
October 28, 2003
Julie Gallagher |
Tech Not M&A Motivator Technology tends to be a consideration, not the driver, of insurance carrier mergers and acquisitions. |
Bank Systems & Technology
November 20, 2008
Maria Bruno-Britz |
Risk and Customers Key Considerations in Mergers Whether a bank acquires another under duress or a merger occurs for more practical reasons around synergies and cost savings, there are several best practices banks should keep in mind to make the process less painful. |
Insurance & Technology
July 13, 2010
Anthony O'Donnell |
Travelers Names Madelyn Lankton Enterprise CIO, Al Lagana Head of Operations Travelers has appointed Madelyn Lankton senior vice president and enterprise CIO, and has named Elio "Al" Lagana senior vice president of operations, responsible for enterprise operations. The two executives take on roles held by Bill Bloom. |
Insurance & Technology
October 29, 2003
Greg MacSweeney |
What's your Legacy plan? One thing's for sure: A monolithic approach won't work. Depending on the particular application and platform, insurers' legacy replacement/enhancement strategies vary widely according to the project specifics. |
Insurance & Technology
December 20, 2004 |
Growing Pains & Priorities At I&T's 2004 Executive Summit, insurance technology executives debated strategies for achieving and sustaining growth. |
Bank Systems & Technology
May 7, 2009
Maria Bruno-Britz |
In M&A, Special Attention Must Also Be Paid to Integrating Outsourcers' Tech A series of reports from Morrison & Foerster details trends in the financial services outsourcing industry, one of which emphasizes the importance of IT harmonization at merged entities. |
CIO
August 15, 2002
Lafe Low |
The Integration Imperative For this year's CIO-100 honorees, integration is no longer a choice -- it's an obligation. And that means far more than merely connecting systems. It means marrying IT strategy to business goals. Not an easy task, but once achieved, the payoff is huge. |
Insurance & Technology
February 8, 2004
Anthony O'Donnell |
Careful and Strategic Spending Will Dominate Members of Insurance & Technology's Reader Advisory Board discuss trends, plans and expectations for 2004 |
BusinessWeek
June 6, 2005
Mara Der Hovanesian |
Travelers May Be Heavy Baggage MetLife's pricey acquisition of Travelers Inc. could take time to pay off. |
Bank Systems & Technology
February 22, 2007
Katherine Burger |
What Are the IT and Distribution Implications of Citigroup's Rebranding Initiative? As Citigroup sells its red umbrella logo back to St. Paul Travelers as part of chairman and CEO Charles Prince's rebranding initiative, what are the IT, channel and distribution implications? |
Insurance & Technology
February 10, 2004
Katherine Burger |
CIOs' Jobs Get More Complicated Regulatory compliance, vendor/resource management and changing customer expectations are among the challenges keeping Insurance & Technology's Executive Summit participants on their toes. |
Insurance & Technology
May 19, 2010
Katherine Burger |
AXA Equitable CIO Discusses How Tech Helped Carrier Weather Economic Storm Kevin Murray, EVP and CIO of AXA Equitable, thinks the carrier's investment in enabling technologies such as rules engines and SOA have been key to its continued strong performance during economic turmoil. |
The Motley Fool
April 11, 2007
Emil Lee |
AXA Having a Warm Winterthur French insurer AXA is looking for synergy from the Winterthur acquisition. Investors, although it's still too early to judge, so far the merger is paying off very well. |
Insurance & Technology
September 7, 2007
Anthony O'Donnell |
Goodstein Runs AXA Incubator AXA Equitable's new chief innovation officer says just about everything she does will have a technology dimension. |
Financial Planning
May 1, 2007
David Grau |
Linked In As they look to recreate themselves, surprisingly few small financial practice owners consider mergers. |
Insurance & Technology
February 19, 2004
Anthony O'Donnell |
AXA Agent Front-End Launch Webstation application gives financial advisors fingertip access to comprehensive sales-related information and functionality. |
Insurance & Technology
February 12, 2009
Anthony O'Donnell |
BCBSMN SVP and CIO Jay Levine Thrives on Change Levine will shepherd claims modernization, user-friendly portals and improvements across the health insurer's technology infrastructure and application portfolio. |
Insurance & Technology
February 21, 2005 |
Executive News Murray AXA CIO... NLG Names CIO... Popolano to Take Reins at AIGT... etc. |
Insurance & Technology
March 5, 2008
Anthony O'Donnell |
AXA's Global IT Boss Keeps it Simple AXA Technology Services CEO Etienne Aubourg applies the lessons of manufacturing to AXA Group's 11,000 strong, Paris-based global technology organization. |
BusinessWeek
December 29, 2003
Gene G. Marcial |
Travelers And St. Paul -- Under One Big Umbrella Robert Lyon, president of Institutional Capital, figures the combined St. Paul Travelers will grab a wider slice of the weak insurance business. The deal, notes Lyon, unites teams with "good chemistry," that worked together at Citigroup under Sandy Weill. |
Insurance & Technology
September 28, 2009
Anthony O'Donnell |
AXA U.K. Selects Duck Creek Working in collaboration with Tata Consultancy Services, Duck Creek will supply its EXAMPLE Platform to AXA Insurance U.K. in support of the carrier's commercial business. |
Wall Street & Technology
March 19, 2007
Bressler & McDonnell |
How CRM Helps Merge Firms' Crucial Relationship and Intelligence Assets A merger can be a shrewd business move if executed properly, with revenue growth as its primary objective. To achieve that objective, having the right infrastructure in place to aggregate, manage and share relationship intelligence is critical. |
Bank Systems & Technology
January 29, 2005
MacPherson, Perry & Phelan |
Doing Diligence Attempts to buy growth through M&As take forethought and care. At its best, an effective bank merger is a backstage production - smooth, well-orchestrated and invisible to an audience of consumers. |
