Finance & insurance

News, stats, reviews, how-to, case studies, apps and accessories to help you use iPad and other tablets in the financial, banking and insurance industries.

One of Asia’s largest life insurance companies says it expects to increase its iPad deployment to as many as 50,000 agents this year, completing a two-year rollout that now serves clients in 16 different countries.

Willie Sutton famously replied to the question of why he robbed banks with “Because that’s where the money is.” Ask financial software king Intuit why it’s moving so aggressively into tablets and the answer is equally simple: That’s where the users are.

Sun Life Financial U.S. made up its mind in 2010 that it needed a better way to empower its 250 sales reps so that they would be more productive. Specifically, they wanted to figure out a way to for these reps to spend less time in the office and more time in front of brokers.

Citi Private Bank, among the first of its competitors to bring tablet apps to clients, is pushing the envelope when it comes to offering sophisticated views of their portfolios and eventually would like to bring simple trading capability to the apps as well.

Specialized information firm IHS has gotten on the iPad bandwagon with an app designed to help its customers make multi-billion dollar investment decisions.

There are plenty of options to insure your iPad, but it can be harder to find the right policies at the right price. TabTimes looks at six quick tips to get the best coverage for your tablet.

A financial customer faces challenges in moving data from one device to another.

Apple didn't talk business very much in today's announcement of The New iPad. But it's clear that the business customers are a key target.

The CTO of SecureSheet Technologies sees great promise and ironclad security in browser-based business applications for tablets