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Accenture, IBM among firms shortlisted for Irda's fraud analytics system

Irda has brought out request for proposal for setting up an insurance fraud repository to reduce monitoring costs

Bajaj Allianz General Insurance launches insurance cover for surgical treatments

Plan assures guaranteed benefit amount depending on surgical treatment graded based on costs and covers almost 600 surgeries

Irda, insurers launch awareness drive

Online insurance moves beyond plain vanilla products

Apart from products such as pure term, insurers are moving to newer types of web policies

Life insurance products rule online purchases: Study

Those who were young, had high income, were highly educated and internet-savvy displayed higher confidence on family protection levels

Every digital tablet-equipped advisor becomes a virtual branch for us: Sandeep Bakhshi

Interview with Managing Director and CEO, ICICI Prudential Life Insurance

HDFC Bank sets Guinness World Record

Aditya Puri, MD, HDFC Bank said that sustainability is a core value at the Bank

US remains top overseas education destination

Australia gains ground again; Canada and New Zealand plan to expand their reach in India

Munjal varsity to start in Aug

Will have three schools to begin with, School of Engineering & Technology, School of Commerce, and School of Management

Insurance: New premiums not to be impacted by Jan diktat

Data by Irda showed that the life insurance sector saw a 6.3% drop in new business premiums for the FY13

Govt bond auction: Bonds bank on insurers to sail through

Offer fully subscribed; yields soften

Now, life insurers can file only 5 products a yr

To reduce time taken for product approvals, Irda has asked life insurers to submit a 'product planner' before the beginning of every financial year

Come July, all insurers may offer digitised insurance policies

About 110,000 policies are digitised but many customers are not aware of this process

MBA still sought-after; non-MBA courses catching on: GMAC survey

Woman professionals are in short supply: ICICI Bank report

The report notes that women prefer non-sales roles, but most jobs in the BFSI sector involve some kind of sales

Irda imposes Rs 1.77 cr penalty on Reliance Life Insurance

Rs 25 lakh fine imposed due to service agreements entered with various entities engaged for providing services of lead generation and dissemination of information

All insurers may offer digitised policies from July

Already 1,10,000 policies have been digitised, but many customers are not aware of this process

Fund houses and insurers may buy bonds if yields rise

Few fund houses which were running short-duration due to which with rising yields they have already started building durations

IndiaFirst Life new premium grows by 28% in FY 2013-14

Company has covered approximately 2.4 million lives and has Rs 6,500 cr of AUM at end of FY 2013-14

Insurers cold to the idea of insurance marketing firms

Trust deficit may force industry to take cautious approach