Cooper Gay Swett & Crawford (CGSC) has selected Sequel for a five year software and consultancy support program to modernize its London-based insurance business in a bid to deal with regulation, London market initiatives and competitors. Currently, the company is implementing the Sequel’s Eclipse Broking software, which will go live by the summer of 2012 [...]

DST Insurance Solutions has introduced a new InPayce Payout solution to service a range of payout models. The solution was developed to support life, annuity, and mutual fund product providers needing user-friendly systems to track, distribute, and service the various income streams associated with existing and new guaranteed retirement income products. DST InPayce Payout has [...]

Friends Life, a part of Friends Provident Holdings (UK), has entered into partnership with IT and customer service specialist Diligenta, a TCS’s UK FSA regulated subsidiary. According to Friends Life, this outsourcing agreement will result in Friends Life transferring the remaining half of its IT and Customer Service functions of its UK Heritage business. The [...]

Get the health and ego benefits of athletic racing without leaving your neighborhood. Competitive running and cycling once meant having to travel to actual races. Now, the demands of a busy lifestyle deter many people from the race courses. However, in this digital age, there’s a virtual answer for every physical constraint. Not to mention [...]

The London-based operations of insurer XL Group and UK based insurance broker Willis have launched a full electronic accounting process between the two companies, using the new ACORD 2010.2 data standard. Willis said this project follows the recent success with ACE, which went live with full e-Accounting in August 2011 and forms part of an [...]