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Sunday, January 29, 2012

Examining Insurance And Financial Industry Trends

By Ed Hulse


Insurance and financial industry trends leave no doubt as to the importance of having a strategy for handling risk. Increasing loads of data must be examined at ever faster speeds. The winners here will be those companies best able to thoroughly review information quickly and take from it what they need to know about making some investments and avoiding others.

There is no global agreement as to how to regulate intellectual property or data connected to doing business or that may be personal in nature. It is better to see all these streams of data as an asset rather than to treat them as a liability. This will allow one to take advantage of knowledge gained to access market opportunities.

There is not even much agreement as to what risk may be. By proceeding from the view that greater amounts of information leads to increased ability to avoid risk, a company will free itself from the restraints imposed by older methods that have not yet adapted to changing conditions. They can take more innovate approaches that will allow better market penetration.

Digital data continues to expand. It is very fluid. While it may be developed in safe zones within secured sites, this safety system is quickly crossed as data gets transferred to less secure systems. The information needs to get more closely guarded where it starts.

There are a number of procedures which call for higher safeguards such as data involving credit cards, cash transactions, consumer purchases, and bank accounts. These will need to get encrypted and secured by passwords. Fraud detection systems need to be enacted. Because of the difficulty in doing this, an outside company in this area may have to be brought in.

Companies that have set up systems to handle these matters are in more stable positions. They are less likely to be undermined by any sort of criminal activity whether this is conducted from inside the firm or by outside attack. They will not need to fear investigation by any government agency. They can concentrate on making the market work for them.

Insurance and financial industry trends show us how information keeps moving faster around the globe. Companies need to accept this and learn how to deal with various world events which affect the markets. They also must understand that their employees need to be able now to take much of this data home with them.




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