24 January 2025

Strengthening the European industry's cyber resilience

Analysis

21 January 2025

US insurability crisis casts a dark cloud on Europe

Climate-driven losses in the US have led insurers to withdraw coverage. Could the same happen in Europe? Sarfraz Thind reports
17 January 2025

Bermuda seeks a little help from its friends for asset intensive oversight

The Bermuda Monetary Authority is plugging the gaps in its toolkit for supervising the asset intensive insurance market - part of which involves calling on its international peers, as Sarfraz Thind reports
15 January 2025

Gareth Truran discusses the PRA's 2025 priorities for insurance

The executive director of insurance supervision at the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) opens up on the risks facing life insurers, how the regulator's competitiveness objective is being realised, and how UK insurers are exposed to complex international linkages
10 January 2025

Beneva's CEO talks sustainability, from boardroom to basement

Jean-François Chalifoux sat down with Joshua Geer to discuss how the Canadian insurer integrates sustainability into the business and the role of insurance in societal resilience
07 January 2025

Länsförsäkringar's Magnus Strömgren: tackling Sweden's tech risk challenges

The Swedish mutual insurance group's CRO discusses his role and the company's responses to an environment of regulatory and technological change, with Sarfraz Thind

News

  • Bank of England warns insurers to prepare for geopolitical risks

    24 January 2025

  • FWU Luxembourg faces liquidation after failing to meet solvency requirements

    24 January 2025

  • UK pension risk transfer market gets off to a strong start in 2025

    24 January 2025

  • Natural disasters drive $368bn in economic losses in 2024, says Aon

    24 January 2025

  • Politically motivated price regulation is damaging US insurance market, says APCIA

    24 January 2025

  • Sustainability functions still siloed in management structures, says Crowe

    23 January 2025

  • Prudential Financial reinsures $7bn Japanese life block with Prismic Life

    23 January 2025

  • KCC pegs LA wildfire insured losses at $28bn

    23 January 2025

  • The physical world will not be modelled by political outcomes

    23 January 2025

  • Insurance associations lay into FIO's climate report

    23 January 2025

  • Fingerprints of climate change on 2024's natcat insured losses, warns Gallagher Re

    22 January 2025

  • Europe needs to wake up to catch Trump's US, says Zurich's CEO

    22 January 2025

  • New tech is helping insurers model "unimaginably complex" wildfire risk

    21 January 2025

  • Bulgarian regulator defends its solvency assessment process against Eiopa criticism

    21 January 2025

  • Germany's sluggish economic recovery impacting life insurers

    21 January 2025

  • French supervisor to prioritise geopolitical risk and simplification in 2025

    20 January 2025

  • What the insurance industry thinks about Trump's return

    20 January 2025

  • UK's proposed ransomware payment ban may add to insurance costs

    20 January 2025

  • Moody's RMS estimates up to $30bn insured losses from LA wildfires

    20 January 2025

  • Regulation stifles resilience and innovation, says Zurich CRO

    17 January 2025

  • DORA goes live, a "paradigm shift" for insurers' digital resilience

    17 January 2025

  • IFoA report calls for urgent rethink of climate risk assessments

    17 January 2025

  • Bermuda licensed a record 10 new life re/insurers in 2024

    17 January 2025

  • FIO releases long-troubled climate report on US insurance crisis

    17 January 2025

Special Report

Natural catastrophes: Flood, Fire and Storm-Special Report 2025

Download the natcat special report by InsuranceERM produced in collaboration with Fathom, Reask and Bellwether.

Webinar

12 February 2025, 3:00 PM GMT

A deep dive into flood risk modelling

Join InsuranceERM and Fathom for this webinar to learn about insurers' approaches to flood risk modelling and management; the limitations of traditional flood modelling; why new technology and open data are revolutionising cat and flood risk modelling; and the outlook for the future.

Special Report

Climate Risk & Sustainability Special Report 2024

This report brings together selected highlights of the climate and sustainability features we have published in 2024, and a detailed write-up on the winners and highly commended entries in our Climate Risk & Sustainability Awards.
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  5. New tech is helping insurers model "unimaginably complex" wildfire risk
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  10. Bulgarian regulator defends its solvency assessment process against Eiopa criticism

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InsuranceERM Asia Pacific Awards 2024

InsuranceERM Asia Pacific Awards 2024

InsuranceERM's inaugural Asia Pacific Awards winners have been announced.

Empowering insurers in Asia Pacific

Tak Lee, Greater China regional manager at RNA Analytics, explains how the actuarial modelling and risk management software provider is offering risk teams a competitive advantage, and the upcoming regulatory changes that will impact insurers in the region

Actuarial modelling solution of the year: WTW

WTW's RiskAgility Financial Modeller (RAFM) has been named actuarial modelling solution of the year in InsuranceERM's Asia Pacific Awards because of the way it meets the needs of the smallest and largest re/insurers worldwide.

Risk team of the year: Singapore Life

Singapore Life's (Singlife's) numerous risk management milestones achieved in 2024, including cultivating a proactive risk culture and improvements to its business and operational resiliency, make it the deserved winner of our risk team of the year.

Asset-Intensive Reinsurance

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17 January 2025

Bermuda seeks a little help from its friends for asset intensive oversight

The Bermuda Monetary Authority is plugging the gaps in its toolkit for supervising the asset intensive insurance market - part of which involves calling on its international peers, as Sarfraz Thind reports
15 January 2025

Gareth Truran discusses the PRA's 2025 priorities for insurance

The executive director of insurance supervision at the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) opens up on the risks facing life insurers, how the regulator's competitiveness objective is being realised, and how UK insurers are exposed to complex international linkages
16 December 2024

RGA eyes global growth of funded re

RGA has been one of the prime movers in reinsuring the UK's pension risk transfer insurers. Izzy Bickford, director, business development, talks to Sarfraz Thind about the funded reinsurance business and how she sees it developing

  • Bermuda licensed a record 10 new life re/insurers in 2024

  • Just Group closed 43% more bulk annuity deals in 2024

  • L&H reinsurance poised for steady growth this year, says Swiss Re's sector CEO

  • Funded re, climate and operational resilience among PRA's 2025 priorities

  • BMA pushes for more disclosures from life re/insurers

Analysis

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24 January 2025

Strengthening the European industry's cyber resilience
21 January 2025

US insurability crisis casts a dark cloud on Europe
17 January 2025

Bermuda seeks a little help from its friends for asset intensive oversight
15 January 2025

Gareth Truran discusses the PRA's 2025 priorities for insurance

People

  • Regulation stifles resilience and innovation, says Zurich CRO

  • Gareth Truran discusses the PRA's 2025 priorities for insurance

  • Volker Kudszus: motor claims inflation is still a challenge for insurers

  • Julien Descombes: transition to IFRS standard in 2024 has been positive

  • John Neal to depart Lloyd's for Aon CEO role

Software/IT

  • New tech is helping insurers model "unimaginably complex" wildfire risk

  • French supervisor to prioritise geopolitical risk and simplification in 2025

  • DORA goes live, a "paradigm shift" for insurers' digital resilience

  • Low-value insurance products are impacting consumer trust, Eiopa finds

  • How quantum computing could improve insurers' internal models

Risk

  • Bank of England warns insurers to prepare for geopolitical risks

  • Strengthening the European industry's cyber resilience

  • UK pension risk transfer market gets off to a strong start in 2025

  • Natural disasters drive $368bn in economic losses in 2024, says Aon

  • Politically motivated price regulation is damaging US insurance market, says APCIA