With Ransomware Risks Growing, CISOs Get Tactical
By Russ Banham On May 7, when Colonial Pipeline announced it experienced a ransomware attack, Yonesy Núñez was in a meeting with his threat intelligence staff receiving a cyberthreat landscape…
AI Gets Emotional: How Perceptive Analytics Could Revolutionize Marketing
Perspectives By Russ Banham Computers are warming to human feelings, as new image, voice, and text-recognition software tools effectively empathize with both customer and employee’s emotional states. In a marketing context,…
How to Value an InsurTech
Investors Beware. InsurTech companies are going public but keep running into brick walls. By Russ Banham Carrier Management magazine Next year, Chubb will turn 140 years old, an extraordinary feat…
It’s Do Or Die Time For Finance Automation
From providing greater efficiencies to reducing costs to retaining talent, automation in finance and accounting has become an imperative. By Russ Banham Chief Executive magazine StrategicCFO360 When Jennifer Ryu signed…
Closer to Real-Time for Real-Time Payments
In 2017, an interbank payment system providing near-instantaneous settlements debuted. Why has it yet to catch fire? By Russ Banham CFO.com What’s holding up real-time payments? In 2017, the veil was…
Too Many IT Chiefs?
As the function becomes strategic, chief officers proliferate By Russ Banham Chief Executive magazine's StrategicCIO360 David Elges is the Chief Information Officer for the City of Boston. He’s also the…
The Business of Climate Change
The insurance industry has an opportunity now to get ahead of environmentally mandated transitions. By Russ Banham Leader's Edge magazine The latest annual report on climate change prepared by Swiss…
Is Loop the Future of Automobile Insurance?
By Russ Banham Carrier Management magazine The annual ATECH Conference in Aruba is promoted as, “Where Tech, Innovation, and Creativity Meet to Become the Future.” At the 2015 conference, two…
Why Every CFO Must Be A Cybersecurity Expert
Specialized training, penetration testing, new insurance—it’s all part of the finance chief’s job as threats grow exponentially. By Russ Banham Chief Executive The morning Ken Stillwell talked with Chief Executive…
Special Report: Today’s Most Important Member Of The C-Suite? A Strategic CIO
Chief Information Officers have gone from tech order takers to CEO partners. What’s next? By Russ Banham Chief Executive In the quarter-century that he has served as a senior IT…