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Consumers and data are driving changes in the insurance sector: Where are we headed?

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Jason Paau is senior director of program management at digital consultancy Publicis Sapient. The demand for more and enhanced automated experiences in our daily lives is growing, and the insurance sector is no exception. Insurance companies are finally responding. Jason Paau. Contributor.

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Wagely, an Indonesian earned wage access and financial services platform, raises $5.6M

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Other investors included the Asian Development Bank (ADB) Ventures, PT Triputra Investindo Arya, Global Founders Capital, Trihill Capital, 1982 Ventures and Willy Swandi Dharma, former president director of insurance company PT Asuransi Adira Dinamika. More companies around the world are allowing workers to pick when they get paid.

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What CIOs need to become better enablers of sustainability

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Food and water insecurity will increase, and energy systems, housing stock, insurance, and currency markets will all become more volatile—a worrying set of scenarios for business leaders and boards. And if the world’s temperatures rise by or above 1.5 Climate urgency also impacts CIOs themselves in their employment decisions, too. “I

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Women IT leaders take center stage

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Early in her career as a program management specialist at AT&T, Balaban became an active member with the Project Management Institute’s New Jersey chapter, which put her front and center at plenty of events. Judy Balaban has seen firsthand how stepping into the professional spotlight, even on a small stage, pays dividends.

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Ceiling breakers: Women IT execs shake up the status quo

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She took a position as a senior IT program manager, then global IT director and next delegate CIO. Up for the challenge Liberty Mutual Insurance Executive Vice President and CIO Monica Caldas credits, in part, a passion for technology and an early interest in problem-solving for setting her on the path to the executive suite.

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Reinforcement learning for the real world

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Roger Magoulas recently sat down with Edward Jezierski, reinforcement learning AI principal program manager at Microsoft, to talk about reinforcement learning (RL). Should insurance policies be personalized in a webpage using reinforcement learning, and what are the attributes that should drive that?

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ANZ Bank’s Advances Data-Driven Analytics With Cloudera

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The bank offerings include standard deposit and lending services, credit cards, wealth management, agribusiness finance and insurance, and foreign exchange services for other financial institutions. In 2021, ANZ Bank unveiled its strategy to drive digital transformation, increase their speed to market and become more agile.