Archive

  • ICS: the gift that nobody wants

    23 December 2020

    The Insurance Capital Standard continues to be a source of controversy. If the IAIS thought the global capital rule had satisfied at last year's Abu Dhabi meet, they will need to think again. Sarfraz Thind reports

  • Gabriel Bernardino on four important Solvency II reforms

    22 December 2020

    The chair of the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority talks to Christopher Cundy about the main proposals to amend Solvency II and what they hope to achieve

  • Eiopa under fire over Solvency II review proposals

    18 December 2020

    The European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (Eiopa) published its long-awaited final thoughts on the Solvency II review this week. However, facets of the industry and beyond are distinctly unimpressed with the proposals, as Paul Walsh reports

  • Western & Southern's Todd Henderson: a year for living safely

    03 December 2020

    Western & Southern's CRO says he is happy to be boring. Yet the work he has done in 2020 has been anything but. He talks to Sarfraz Thind about negotiating the Covid-19 pandemic and discusses the risks for both underwriting and assets

  • Insurers urged to 'think the unthinkable' post-Covid-19

    02 December 2020

    Experts at the Insurance Risk & Capital EMEA virtual conference reflect on the lessons insurers have learnt from the Covid-19 pandemic. Ronan McCaughey explains

  • IFRS 17 confidence level disclosure: ultimate run-off vs one year

    16 November 2020

    Cintia Cheong explores why insurers face a tricky choice between the two different time horizons for the confidence level disclosure of the IFRS 17 risk adjustment

  • WTW's Rowan Douglas: riding the wave of climate risk awareness

    09 November 2020

    The head of Willis Towers Watson's Climate and Resilience Hub has been on a major hiring spree. He talks to Cintia Cheong about how interest in climate risk has surged and why insurers are demanding advice and analytical tools

  • ERM plays catchup on digital transformation

    29 October 2020

    Digital 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

  • Applying ERM expertise to limit the spread of Covid-19

    21 October 2020

    What 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

  • A hot take on the UK's Solvency II call for evidence

    20 October 2020

    Christopher Cundy analyses what the British government is considering changing about its implementation of Solvency II, and what the implications might be for insurers and other stakeholders