Insurance trends

Insurance companies around the world confront similar challenges – AI disruption, climate-driven losses, market instability and regulatory volatility. It’s harder than ever to keep pace and maintain resilience while doing the routine business of keeping customers happy, detecting fraud, ensuring compliance, managing risks and delivering profitability.

Industry leaders have insights into what they consider the most disruptive forces shaping insurance in 2026 – and what’s coming next. Could we be nearing a third major financial crisis? Where can agentic AI create value, and where is governance most critical? What practical steps can you take to protect growth, innovate responsibly and deliver on your promises?

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New fraud threat for insurers: AI-generated images

AI models are incorporated into decision-making processes across the insurance business (underwriting, claims, pricing and beyond). But when governance is fragmented, it introduces risks to the organization, such as a downgrade in financial outlook or increased regulatory scrutiny.

Model risk can be directly connected to specific financial consequences. That makes good governance key to protecting insurers’ investments. Discover how SAS model and risk experts say you can build a step-by-step approach to governance that will shift mindsets and bake governance into how every decision is made.

Read the blog post: POOF! Risk evolves, models break and capital vanishes