Many insurers plan to improve their...

Many insurers plan to improve their ability to contend through alliances with banks and other financial institutions for distribution of their productions particularly with respect to e-commerce Many others, however, have resisted, for fear of losing direction of the client relationship and client data to another company.

The rise of account aggregation--the practice of channeling all financial account management by the and of one financial institution's site--may force insurers to relinquish direct mastery of customer relationships against their wishes, unles those insurers are willing to beat the other institutions to the puncture

Banks and other noninsurance financial institutions have