Tagged: underwriting

June 5, 2025 @ 8:50 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Akur8, the insurance pricing and reserving solution, is pleased to announce that Frank Winston Crum Insurance has selected Akur8’s core platform solution to provide them with model development, explainable insights, and accurate financial impact forecasting for pricing and reserving processes. For over 20 years, Frank… Read More

May 15, 2025 @ 2:27 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

As new impactful technologies emerge, insurance providers grapple with pricing risk properly. Effective solutions are developed by looking at relevant regulations and comparable industries. Providers must also develop a nuanced understanding of the technology. Alternative Intelligence (AI) has insurers considering all of the above, and… Read More

April 23, 2025 @ 8:00 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

MoneyThumb, a provider of automated document evaluation and fraud detection solutions, was recently awarded a U.S. patent for its Thumbprint® product, an AI-driven technology that enables the authentication of third-party PDF documents. Small business loan application fraud is a critical problem that leads to significant… Read More

September 23, 2024 @ 5:23 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Akur8, the insurance pricing solution powered by transparent machine learning, is excited to announce its recent collaboration with Louisiana Workers’ Compensation Corporation (LWCC), Louisiana’s largest workers’ compensation carrier, dedicated to excellence in execution from underwriting to life-long care of an injured worker. LWCC has selected… Read More

November 15, 2023 @ 8:46 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Pegasystems Inc. (NASDAQ: PEGA), the low-code platform provider empowering the world’s leading enterprises to Build for Change, announced that Shawbrook, a UK-based specialist savings and lending bank, has deployed Pega Platform “to transform its buy-to-let mortgage underwriting process.” Shawbrook continues to “invest in its unique… Read More

October 25, 2023 @ 9:48 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Prism Data, a cash flow underwriting and data analytics platform, announced today that it has raised $5 million in seed funding. This investment round was reportedly “led by Obvious Ventures, with participation from Citi Impact Fund and Core Innovation Capital.” Prism’s new funding follows “a… Read More

October 19, 2023 @ 10:05 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Alloy, the identity risk management company, is expanding its credit underwriting capabilities to support banks, fintechs, and other builders of financial products in managing their holistic credit risk. In a challenging macro-environment, Alloy enables lenders to “make smarter credit decisions, capture default risk, and increase… Read More

September 5, 2023 @ 11:46 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Quantiphi, an Al-first digital engineering company, announced the launch of its AI-led Intelligent Underwriting Platform (AiUP), which will be “included in Google Cloud’s Industry Value Network (IVN) solutions and combines the power of Dociphi, Quantiphi’s intelligent document processing platform,” Unqork‘s codeless platform and Google Cloud’s… Read More

September 3, 2023 @ 6:17 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Clear Capital, the national real estate valuation technology company, announced a partnership with LenderX, a real-estate valuations SaaS provider, “to deliver its lenders access to AURA, Clear Capital’s automated collateral underwriting solution.” LenderX is the first Clear Capital partner “to provide lenders with access to… Read More

May 28, 2023 @ 2:53 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Everest Re Group, Ltd. (NYSE: RE), a global underwriting firm providing property, casualty, and specialty reinsurance and insurance solutions, announced that Ricardo Anzaldua has “been appointed Executive Vice President and Group General Counsel, effective June 12, 2023.” Mr. Anzaldua will “report to President and CEO… Read More

March 6, 2023 @ 11:27 am By Omar Faridi  |  

CAPE Analytics, which claims to be the leader in AI-powered geospatial property intelligence, announced its integration with insurance carrier American National in order to enhance its risk management and underwriting processes “by leveraging CAPE property insights.” Working with CAPE geospatial property insights will “allow American… Read More

January 7, 2023 @ 9:26 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Liberate Innovations Inc., a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform that enables P&C insurers to fully automate claims and underwriting journeys, announced its launch “after raising $7 million in venture funding.” The platform “empowers insurers to deliver digital self-serve experiences and orchestrate an ecosystem of solutions providers and… Read More

November 17, 2022 @ 1:32 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Nationwide announced a partnership with Human API, a health data platform, to improve the life insurance buying experience “by maximizing the use of digital health data to accelerate the underwriting process.” Human API’s Health Intelligence Platform “connects electronic health data from thousands of sources in… Read More

November 3, 2022 @ 9:32 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Zest AI, which claims to be the leader in automating underwriting with more accurate and inclusive lending insights powered by AI, announced that the company has “raised over $50 million in a new growth round.” The investment round was “co-led by existing global software investor… Read More

September 15, 2022 @ 8:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Codat, the universal API for small business data, announced a partnership with nCino (NASDAQ: NCNO), the worldwide specialist in cloud banking, “to automate and accelerate banks’ ability to underwrite small business loans around the world.” nCino’s solution significantly “reduces the time it takes banks to… Read More

July 29, 2022 @ 2:29 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Lokyata, a company focused on delivering products that digitize, automate, and scale lenders’ credit decisions, has released a number of platform enhancements “to help lenders further automate loan decisioning to save time, minimize manual work, standardize processes, and improve underwriting performance.” The company “sees particular… Read More

May 11, 2022 @ 8:35 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Global AI-enhanced credit decision platform provider Scienaptic AI recently announced that Levo Credit Union, a 30,000 member strong credit union serving the South Dakota region, “is live on its platform.” Scienaptic’s platform will “allow Levo to increase approval rates, augment its credit decisioning process and… Read More

January 20, 2022 @ 2:07 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Thincats, a UK-based lending platform, explains that their expertise in SME lending is the product of “a detailed manual underwriting process combined with market-leading data.” Because of their sharp focus on mid-sized SMEs, ThinCats claims that they have “continually invested in making sure [they] have… Read More

September 5, 2021 @ 5:21 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

During this month’s installment of “Did you know” by P2P lender Blend Network, they’re sharing some of the “secrets” of their due diligence and underwriting process so that you get to know more about the processes they go through to “ensure that you and hundreds… Read More

July 23, 2021 @ 10:44 am By Omar Faridi  |  

iPipeline, a provider of low code / no code content-enabled digital solutions and services to the financial services sector, reveals that global reinsurance company, PartnerRe, has decided to adopt the iPipeline’s SSG Digital® Platform in order to expand its international protection portfolio. As mentioned in… Read More