Economy

Smallest Businesses Fall Behind as Main Street Goes Digital

Labor Day finds Main Street approaching the fourth quarter with more ways to sell, get paid and source goods than it had four years ago. It also finds...

Sep 07, 2026 • 5 min read

Banking

Insurance Claims Lose the Paper Chase as AI Gets to Work

Insurance claims have always been document-heavy, time-sensitive, and prone to fraud. A single corporate loss event can produce thousands of pages of...

Sep 07, 2026 • 5 min read

Investing

Telling the truth makes you honest. Selling it makes you effective. 

Anyone can sound credible now and almost nobody is believed anymore. Most leaders already hold a truth worth hearing and have never been taught how to...

Sep 07, 2026 • 5 min read

Banking

Labor Day Was Built So You Can Rest. So Why Do You Feel Like You Can’t?

The holiday exists. The permission to actually stop does not. And for the people running hardest, a long weekend does not feel like rest.

Sep 05, 2026 • 5 min read

Banking

Allstate moves to reopen California home insurance market for first time in four years

The Golden state could be about to get one of the US’s biggest carriers writing policies again

Sep 04, 2026 • 5 min read

Banking

China moves to raise insurer capital bar fivefold in biggest insurance law rewrite since 2015

Beijing's financial regulator wants insurers to hold five times more capital to operate, open the door to equities and gold, and give itself sharper t...

Sep 04, 2026 • 5 min read

Banking

I Left a Secure Career to Become an Entrepreneur — and I Wasn’t Nearly as Ready as I Thought

Thinking about quitting your job for entrepreneurship? These three tests reveal if you're actually prepared.

Sep 04, 2026 • 5 min read

Economy

7 Quiet Signs Your Company Culture Is in Trouble

Subtle signs like silence, disengagement, favoritism and poor collaboration can reveal a struggling company culture before bigger problems emerge.

Sep 04, 2026 • 5 min read

Banking

Why Innovation Now Depends on Resilience, Not Just Speed

Speed built the last era of innovation. Resilience may define the next.

Sep 04, 2026 • 5 min read

Economy

9/11 transformed BI disputes – what brokers should review 25 years later

Legal experts explain where policies can fall short and what should be addressed before a claim

Sep 04, 2026 • 5 min read

Banking

Where cyber conversations go wrong with small businesses

CEO believes the specialty framing keeps losing small commercial clients

Sep 04, 2026 • 5 min read

Banking

How to tell which insurers will hold rate when the market softens

Liberty's retiring underwriting chief says mutual insurers hold a superpower most of the market might envy

Sep 04, 2026 • 5 min read

Banking

Atlantic Hurricane Season Remains Most Tranquil Since 1941

Dry air, a stable atmosphere and storm ripping wind shear are suppressing every system that emerges, fulfilling predictions that a strong El Niño will...

Sep 04, 2026 • 5 min read

Investing

Supplemental benefits belong in the HDHP conversation from the start

Renaissance's John Feeney explains why employers focused on HDHP have already created the case for supplemental coverage

Sep 04, 2026 • 5 min read

Banking

Florida's property market has shifted - what brokers need to know

Twenty new carriers, falling litigation, and moderating rates are reshaping where Florida property risks can be placed

Sep 04, 2026 • 5 min read

Stocks

EQT lands $2 billion swoop for McGill and Partners as private equity's insurance spree rolls on

Swedish buyout giant acquires majority share in London specialty broker from Warburg Pincus in a week that also saw KKR exit USI for a reported $17 bi...

Sep 04, 2026 • 5 min read

Investing

What Guidewire's record year tells brokers about their carriers

P&C insurers are deepening AI commitments at scale. Here is what that means for how they place and process business

Sep 04, 2026 • 5 min read

Investing

DC paid leave cuts expose a risk brokers can't ignore

DC is the first jurisdiction to reduce an established PFML program while keeping employer taxes unchanged

Sep 04, 2026 • 5 min read

Investing

Brokers gain ground as delegated underwriting reshapes the market

A new Moody's report finds broker facilities and MGAs are concentrating market power - and the soft market will deepen that shift

Sep 04, 2026 • 5 min read

Stocks

Fitch keeps 'deteriorating' call on reinsurance for 2027

Price declines, rising claims and shifting retentions are set to erode margins further

Sep 04, 2026 • 5 min read