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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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A hot take on the UK's Solvency II call for evidence
20 October 2020Christopher 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
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Prudential Financial's Nick Silitch: running his own version of risk
19 October 2020The chief risk officer of the largest US life insurer talks to Sarfraz Thind about how he shaped his role and the risk function, and reveals the impact of the pandemic on the group
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How actuaries can make a difference on climate risk
14 October 2020Actuaries can play important roles in helping to address the challenges of climate-related risks, according to the International Actuarial Association. Ronan McCaughey reports
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Cracks in the normal distribution challenge CROs
09 October 2020Covid-19 is changing the way chief risk officers think and work. Eric Clapprood and David Sherwood talk to Sarfraz Thind about why CROs may need to focus on less extreme risks, and how they can adapt to the new normal
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Lockdowns and BLM put pressure on the diversity and inclusion agenda
21 September 2020The sixth annual Dive In festival, designed to promote inclusion and diversity in the insurance sector, will take place this week following some of the most dramatic societal developments in recent history. Paul Walsh reports on how the issue has been prioritised in these times
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The FSB and effective resolution: why it should matter to you
18 September 2020Insurers can come up with many reasons to put resolution planning at the bottom of their list of priorities. Carlos Montalvo explains why they should not
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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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Covid-19 and insurance: stirred, not shaken
01 September 2020Isaac Alfon and Shirley Beglinger share the findings of their survey of risk and finance executives on how they coped with the crisis - and how working environments and business practices will change after the pandemic