Insurance Briefings 

Insurance Briefing has been created as a vehicle to bring timely briefings and insights that will help insurance professionals make more informed business decisions.  Our ambition is to be highly relevant and publish issues when there is a need for perspective on significant events that are shaping the insurance sector.
May 2012 Insurance Briefing: Is the Insurance Industry Ready for Social Media?
Social media sites like LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter are increasingly being used by organizations to gain competitive advantages. Insurers are utilizing these sites and implementing social media strategies at varying levels.
March 2012 Insurance Briefing: FATCA
This edition provides commentary on the recently-published regulations and insights into the steps that companies can take to prepare for the full implementation of FATCA.
January 2012 Insurance Briefing: Property/Casualty Competitive Benchmarking for Specialty Lines
This edition of KPMG Insurance Briefing focuses on the use of effective and competitive benchmarking information to help companies adapt quickly to the changing business environment.
December 2011 Insurance Briefing: Interest Rate Environment
This edition of KPMG Insurance Briefing focuses on why historically low interest rates are compelling boards...
October 2011 Insurance Briefing - Cloud Computing
The issue focuses on how insurers are leveraging cloud computing technologies and changing business processes and beginning to transform traditional insurance business models.
September 2011 Insurance Briefing: Achieving Profitability and Performance through a Soft Insurance Market
Examines property and casualty pricing by analyzing three pain points that drove a change to a hard market ten years ago along with changes in the current environment that may drive events differently.
August 2011 Insurance Contracts Project
The August 2011 edition focused on the evolving IFRS insurance contracts project.
July 2011 Solvency II: Issues for the U.S. Insurance Market
The issue focuses on evolving insurance regulation and the impeding changes set to take place across the global insurance landscape.
June 11 Insurance Briefing: Evolving Insurance Regulation
Topic is evolving insurance regulation and the impeding changes set to take place across the global insurance landscape.
April 2011 Insurance Briefing: Impact of Japan on the Insurance Sector
The inaugural edition of Insurance Briefing will focus on the recent events in Japan.