Profile of Greg MacSweeney
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Greg MacSweeney is editorial director of InformationWeek Financial Services, whose brands include Wall Street & Technology, Bank Systems & Technology, Advanced Trading, and Insurance & Technology.
Articles by Greg MacSweeney
posted in January 2002
1/30/2002
In order to improve return on technology investments in its four title information services provider subsidiaries, Fidelity National Financial has combined the operations into a new company called
Property Insights.
1/16/2002
Susan A. Hansen has been promoted to vice president of membership
and claims systems consolidation at The Regence Group. Hansen is
currently overseeing a systems consolidation project designed to
improve customer service and reduce costs.
1/9/2002
Tech execs say industry will fare better during tough economic times, and may even benefit from IT cuts in other industries.
1/9/2002
Security threats are changing rapidly and insurance companies are scrambling to adapt security systems and policies to cope.
1/8/2002
Converts more than 300 million tables daily from back-end systems to customer-facing CRM application.
1/8/2002
Progressive discontinues real-time auto insurance pilot program.
1/3/2002
The news on the technology spending front isn't great, but it's somewhat better than expected, according to new research from two major investment banks. According to a survey from Morgan Stanley, CIOs expect modest budget growth in 2002 and anticipate that spending will focus mainly on e-commerce initiatives, security
software and enterprise application integration. Meanwhile, Merrill Lynch forecasts that corporate spending on technology will grow slightlythree percentin 2002.
1/3/2002
US carriers will spend more than $1.1 billion on new agent-focused extranet technology over the next two years, according to Celent Communications; Guaranteed Quotes will provide a Web-based system for tracking, storing and retrieving information to DataLife; BB&T Insurance Services teams with Access CoverageCorp to improve BB&T's client acquisition process; Insurance Technologies launches its
newly designed Web site.