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EU supervisors comment on Eiopa's plans for Solvency II reform
23 November 2020French, German and Italian supervisors are supporting some of Eiopa's proposals to amend Solvency II, while the European Commission has admitted it needs to do more to encourage long-term business. Cintia Cheong reports
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Eiopa in 2021: more staff, more responsibilities
02 November 2020Europe's insurance authority is hiring nearly 35 more staff as its responsibilities grow. Executive director Fausto Parente explains what they will be doing, in conversation with Christopher Cundy
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ERM plays catchup on digital transformation
29 October 2020Digital transformation has long been heralded as a game changer for the insurance business. However, its impact has mostly been confined to insurers' front-end processes - with risk and capital functions proving more challenging to digitalise. Ronan McCaughey explains
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Applying ERM expertise to limit the spread of Covid-19
21 October 2020What can enterprise risk management experts offer to society in the pandemic? Quite a lot, as Dave Ingram and Dan Ingram explain, in their COVID Mitigation Monitoring Project
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Covid-19 claims fall short of forecasts... so far
29 September 2020Cintia Cheong investigates why claims related to the pandemic have failed to live up to forecasts in the early part of this year
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The cloud is a silver lining amid Covid-19
16 September 2020Covid-19 has put to bed any doubts about the use of cloud technology for risk and capital management. The pandemic will also drive more sophisticated risk modelling, as Ronan McCaughey discusses in his review of key trends in the risk software markets
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The Future of Insurance: the operational revolution
20 August 2020Adapting to remote working during to the Covid-19 pandemic was never going to be an easy task. However, insurers think they have coped well and this way of working is here to stay. Paul Walsh reports in the first instalment of our Future of Insurance series
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Value creation analysis finds an "enormous gap" between best and worst insurers
14 August 2020BCG's analysis of value creation by insurers has found a massive gap between companies, much more so than in other industries. And the challenges posed by Covid-19 are putting extra pressure on the worst performers to respond. Christopher Cundy reports
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The heat is on for climate risk modelling
03 August 2020It is time for catastrophe risk model developers to go beyond a piecemeal approach to addressing climate change, argues Jayanta Guin
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Solvency II interest rate risk: a floor to cure the flaw
31 July 2020Eiopa's stakeholder group has proposed an alternative solution to what it sees as a flawed proposal to reform the interest rate risk module. Christopher Cundy reports