Archive

  • Crypto insurance after the FTX fallout

    28 December 2022

    FTX's collapse capped a bad year for cryptocurrency markets and has prompted serious questions for the burgeoning crypto insurance business, as Sarfraz Thind reports

  • Risk modellers step up a gear to tackle next-generation perils

    21 December 2022

    Experts at the Insurance Risk & Capital EMEA conference discussed how risk modellers are responding to today's interconnected society and why a focus on forward-looking assessment is needed. Paul Walsh reports

  • Eiopa's Justin Wray: Solvency II reform can work amid high rates

    19 December 2022

    The head of the policy department at the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority discussed major risks, Solvency II and sustainability at Insurance Risk & Capital EMEA. Ronan McCaughey reports

  • Regulators consider capital for climate risk

    15 December 2022

    Insurance regulators are keen to ensure their prudential frameworks properly incorporate climate risk. But whether this should be reflected in capital requirements is proving a difficult question to answer, as Christopher Cundy reports

  • Insurers look to redefine their social purpose

    13 December 2022

    Experts at the Insurance Risk & Capital EMEA conference called on the sector to rediscover its purpose as social crises worsen. Paul Walsh reports

  • Managing climate risks - but how?

    08 December 2022

    Rüdiger Kiesel and Gerhard Stahl argue capital charges are not sufficient for insurers to manage climate risk, and propose an approach based on the fundamentals of risk management

  • Finding the scope for insured emissions reporting

    05 December 2022

    New methodologies for measuring the carbon emissions associated with underwriting and driving the insurance sector towards net-zero were published in November. But the reception from green campaign groups has been lukewarm, as Joshua Geer reports

  • "Enterprise risk" management? Or enterprise "risk management"?

    30 November 2022

    Ari Moskowitz, group chief risk officer at Everest, explains why both approaches are critical and how to tie them together seamlessly, so businesses can see both the wood and the trees

  • IFRS 17's second-order effects begin to crystalise

    23 November 2022

    The insurance sector is beginning to look beyond the surface and understand what changes the IFRS 17 era will bring to business. Paul Walsh reports

  • Championing the UK Black Actuaries Network

    21 November 2022

    The key people behind the launch of the UK Black Actuaries Network - Chika Aghadiuno and Mudi Ugono - tell Ronan McCaughey about the aims and aspirations for the initiative and why it is so crucial