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Guidewire acquires P&C insurtech HazardHub

20th August 2021

Software specialist Guidewire has announced the acquisition of HazardHub, a provider of API-driven property risk insights to the P&C insurance industry. HazardHub curates, analyses and distills enough data to offer a comprehensive, national catalog of risks while its API provides risk scores and supports the underlying information for any US property. “Underwriters, ... Read the full article

Beazley wraps up Guidewire London Market ECF Integration

1st July 2020

Specialist insurer Beazley has successfully finalised its claims transformation program, powered by Guidewire ClaimCenter. ClaimCenter is now fully integrated with the London Market Electronic Claims File Write-Back (ECF). Beazley has worked closely with Guidewire to add ECF Write-Back to Guidewire’s London Market claims functionality. This functionality affords Lloyd’s Syndicates and the London company ... Read the full article

Optio chooses Guidewire Cyence for cyber risk management

12th June 2020

Optio Group has chosen Guidewire's cyber risk management modelling solution Cyence to enhance its data warehouse capabilities and underwriting performance, and Guidewire Cyence for Small Business to support profitable small business growth. Cyence was acquired by Guidewire in 2017 and combines economic modelling, cybersecurity, machine learning and Internet scale data collection ... Read the full article

Guidewire updates cyber risk model Cyence

26th September 2019

Guidewire Software, a platform provider for property and casualty re/insurers, has updated its cyber risk management modelling solution Cyence. Cyence, acquired by Guidewire in 2017, combines economic modelling, cybersecurity, machine learning and Internet scale data collection to help risk takers assess the financial impact of cyber threats. This latest model update, the ... Read the full article

Beazley to leverage Guidewire’s Cyence analytics solution

11th September 2019

Specialist insurer Beazley has selected Guidewire Software’s Cyence product to help improve underwriting, capital and pricing efficiencies. Cyence offers a data listening and risk analytics solution that combines curation of external data with machine learning and risk modelling. Beazley will implement Cyence data models to augment its existing data modelling applications for ... Read the full article

Donegal to expand adoption of Guidewire services

19th March 2019

Donegal Insurance Group has selected Guidewire Software’s Insurance Platform Core and Data products to replace legacy systems, in a move designed to modernise the way it does business. Donegal says it will implement the products for all of its lines of business, beginning with workers’ compensation, followed by its other commercial ... Read the full article

AXA XL renews and expands partnership with Guidewire Software

29th January 2019

AXA XL has partnered with Guidewire Software, Inc. in order to have global access to the Silicon Valley-based company's Guidewire Cyence Risk Analytics (Cyence) modelling solution for cyber exposures. Cyence is designed to help quantify the financial impact of cyber risk exposures, and AXA XL's Cyber Insurance unit has utilised the ... Read the full article

Seguros SURA Colombia implements Guidewire’s insurance solutions

6th November 2018

Seguros SURA Colombia, the largest insurer in Colombia, has revealed that it is in the process of rolling out Guidewire Software’s InsuranceSuite solutions across all of its lines of business. SURA said that it plans to use Guidewire’s InsuranceSuite, Client Data Management, Rating Management, and Reinsurance Management solutions for underwriting, policy ... Read the full article

Aon and Guidewire model silent cyber risks for U.S dam attack

25th October 2018

Re/insurance broker Aon and Guidewire Software, a platform provider for property and casualty (P&C) re/insurers, have collaborated on a scenario that models insured losses related to a hypothetical cyber attack on a U.S hydroelectric dam. The scenario analysed an attack in which a hacker opens the flood gates of a hydroelectric ... Read the full article

Zurich Insurance opts for Guidewire solution to help bolster cyber resilience

21st August 2018

Zurich Insurance Group has announced plans to leverage the Cyence cyber modelling solution to help prospect, underwrite, and price risks. Cyence was acquired by Guidewire, a leading software provider to the property and casualty (P&C) market, in 2017. It combines economic modelling, cybersecurity, machine learning and Internet scale data collection to ... Read the full article

Cyber insurers could lose up to 119% of policyholder surplus in single event: A.M. Best

20th August 2018

A new collaborative report by A.M. Best and Guidewire Software has estimated that three of the top 20 cyber insurers could generate significant gross losses to policyholder surplus of between 15% to 119% from a single cyber catastrophe event occurring in 2022. A.M. Best and Guidewire’s Cyence Risk Analytics team extrapolated ... Read the full article

Guidewire Software to acquire P&C insurance software provider Cyence

12th October 2017

Software provider to Property and Casualty (P&C) insurers, Guidewire Software, has entered into an agreement to acquire Cyence, a software provider that uses data science and risk analytics to expand P&C insurers' underwriting capabilities to include previously uninsured risks. Cyence offers a data listening and risk analytics solution that combines curation ... Read the full article