Media-Insert Communications

Media-Insert Communications

The blog of Media-Insert Communications – featuring freelance P.R. and journalism links to the work of Graham A. Jarvis.

Editing, Journalism, Copywriting, and Public Relations

Category: Financial Services

  • Quite often and in many industries, such as financial services, there is call for the reduction of regulation and the liberalization of market. In the case of connected and autonomous vehicles the opposite is true, and it has to be so. The key issue is the lack of regulatory harmonization across borders, making the development…

  • Business and technology journalist Graham Jarvis reports on how cryptocurrencies and blockchain can improve access to healthcare.

  • Vervoort and his co-authors Camila R Guetter and Alexander W Peters write: “Health disparities remain vast around the world and are perpetuated by error-prone information technology systems, administrative inefficiencies and wasteful global health spending. Blockchain technology, a novel, distributed peer-to-peer ledger technology, is increasingly used in various industries to disintermediate, improve efficiency and transparency and…

  • David Williams, managing director, underwriting and technical services at AXA, finds that there has been an increase in the take-up of EVs. It’s slow but it’s progressing. He adds: “If you want to buy an EV, it’s more expensive than the internal combustion engine version. This will change – when you build more of something,…

  • The Covid-19 pandemic has created a push to speed up digital transformation. There has also been the move to the working from home environment and embracing hybrid working as a concept, whereby employees work from home as well as in branch or at the office. This has led to a transformation in data flows and…

  • Beyond his work with TU Automotive and Trudy Darwin Communications, between 2020 and 2022, Graham Jarvis – freelance business and technology journalist, wrote and edited insurtech reports for Intelligent Insurer; wrote articles on cryptocurrencies in healthcare; wrote about education; edited and wrote fleet management reports for ABAX; wrote about digital accessibility; wrote about cloud computing;…

  • Examining how banks and finance organizations can prevent market abuse with personal mobile device surveillance, Mobilewatch CEO, Raili Maripuu speaks to ITProPortal. Post-Brexit, the Information Commissioner’s Office in the UK has decided to call the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulations, ‘Frozen GDPR’. Raili Maripuu, CEO of regtech indoor positioning technology company Mobilewatch, says the…

  • In banking and finance – particularly on trading floors, trust is often considered to be at the core of maintaining and achieving compliance. The sector’s traditional approach involves implementing soft policies that are focused on mutual trust, which isn’t sufficient to prevent significant and costly regulatory breaches in regulated areas, such as trading floors. In…

  • The monitoring of personal mobile devices is carried out through “soft policies” which are based on trust rather than compliance. These are simply ineffective, especially now with traders returning to offices and revised layouts to account for social distancing. This provides a greater challenge for supervisors/spotters to identify breaches. With home working continuing for the…

  • The aim is to use driving and vehicle data to set insurance prices employing its established OnStar service. This is the automaker’s connected-car service, which is installed on all GM vehicles in North America. Customers who sign up, agree to permit their driving habits to be tracked remotely. Drivers who obey speeding limits or avoid…