Magazine
Cover Story
May 2024
Power Play
Insurers and insureds alike must face the glaring risks and vulnerabilities in the U.S. electricity system.
Features
![Using Generative AI Starts with Trust](https://www.leadersedge.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/0524_AI_art-1024x673.jpg)
Using Generative AI Starts with Trust
Q&A with Michael Bondar, Principal, Deloitte Risk & Financial Advisory, and Leader, U.S. Enterprise Trust; and Kate Graeff, VP for Enterprise Trust, Deloitte Risk & Financial Advisory
![Making More Out of Less](https://www.leadersedge.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/0524_Feat_Making-More-Out-of-Less_art-1024x673.jpg)
Making More Out of Less
Insurers are looking to asset-light structures to grow market access in a cost-efficient manner.
![Banks Fill Capital Shortfalls with Agency Sell-off](https://www.leadersedge.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/0524_Feat_Bank-Owned_art-1024x673.jpg)
Banks Fill Capital Shortfalls with Agency Sell-off
After decades of buying up insurance agencies in pursuit of corporate synergies, banks have almost completely exited the industry.
Thought Leaders
![Data Experts Wanted](https://www.leadersedge.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Ken-Data-Experts-Wanted-May-2024-1024x677.jpg)
Data Experts Wanted
The insurance industry must look beyond the usual suspects when hiring
to meet ...
![Command the Room](https://www.leadersedge.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Command-the-Room-May-2024-1024x738.jpg)
Command the Room
Executive presence is crucial to increasing your influence and advancing your career.
![The SEC’s Climate Disclosure Rules Go to Court](https://www.leadersedge.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/SEC-Climate-Disclosure-May-2024-1024x478.jpg)
The SEC’s Climate Disclosure Rules Go to Court
Changes to the rules since they were proposed make it more difficult to predict the outcome of the legal challenge.
![Doing the Work for DEI](https://www.leadersedge.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Doing-the-Work-for-DEI-May-2024-1024x1024.jpg)
Doing the Work for DEI
Real engagement on diversity, equity, and inclusion requires understanding ourselves and a readiness to engage honestly with others.
![France: Promising Industry Outlook Despite Pressures](https://www.leadersedge.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/France-Country-Report-May-2024-1024x686.jpg)
International Country Report
France: Promising Industry Outlook Despite Pressures
Market Dynamics, Consumer Demand, Regulatory Updates, and More
![Easing Debt Markets Produce Robust Conversations on M&A](https://www.leadersedge.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Broker-MA-Update-May-2024-1024x683.jpg)
Easing Debt Markets Produce Robust Conversations on M&A
As the Federal Reserve touts potential interest rate cuts in 2024, will buyers in the insurance brokerage space ramp up activity?
![NARAB at 25](https://www.leadersedge.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/0524_Arena_Gov-Affairs-1024x673.jpg)
Government Affairs Update
NARAB at 25
The Council continues to work to establish the National Association of Registered Agents and Brokers to streamline cross-state licensing.
More In This Issue
![A Famous Death That Wasn’t?](https://www.leadersedge.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/0524_ReadersEdge_art-1024x673.jpg)
Reader's Edge
A Famous Death That Wasn’t?
A review of The Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel: Genius, Power, and Deception on the Eve of World War I
![A Mosaic of an Insurance Claim](https://www.leadersedge.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/0524_Arena_Baltimore-Bridge-1024x673.jpg)
A Mosaic of an Insurance Claim
The marine insurance industry can withstand Baltimore bridge...