Analysis

• Regulating AI is becoming a minefield for insurers and watchdogs

  29 December 2023

  Legislators and regulators are taking steps towards policing the use of artificial intelligence (AI), but insurers will face a variety of frameworks and the challenges are plentiful. Paul Walsh reports

  

• Chief risk officers battle an increasingly unruly risk landscape

  27 December 2023

  CROs at the Insurance Risk & Capital EMEA conference discussed how insurers can navigate today's complex risk landscape. Joshua Geer reports

  

• IMF takes a shot at private equity-backed insurers

  21 December 2023

  Contagion, illiquidity risk and regulatory arbitrage... the International Monetary Fund has this week raised concerns over PE-owned insurance and advised regulators to talk more about the risks. Sarfraz Thind reports

  

• Vishal Desai: taking Mitsui Sumitomo's risk team to the Champions League

  20 December 2023

  Vishal Desai already had a busy job as the chief risk officer (CRO) for MS Amlin in London when he got the call to help parent Mitsui Sumitomo at the head office in Tokyo. Since June, he has been giving his experience and advice to the Japanese insurer's risk team, he tells Sarfraz Thind

  

• COP28: what did it mean for insurers?

  19 December 2023

  Insurance experts at COP28 offer their reflections on the Dubai climate summit. Joshua Geer reports

  

• ChatGPT, Schrödinger's Cat, and emerging risk practices

  15 December 2023

  Ari Moskowitz, Everest Group's chief risk officer, considers if it's possible for risks to have emerged and still be considered emerging at the same time.

  

• Electric vehicles pose problems as insurers charge up for net zero

  13 December 2023

  The shift towards EVs presents new risks for insurers, but also an opportunity as a means for reaching net-zero targets, as Joshua Geer reports

  

• CRO in focus: Hanna Kam

  12 December 2023

  Antony Williams, director at Arthur, talks to Hanna Kam, the former group chief risk officer (CRO) at Hiscox and a qualified actuary with over 25 years' experience in the general insurance industry in Australia, the UK and Europe

  

• Eiopa's Fausto Parente: we are not creating reinsurance barriers

  07 December 2023

  The executive director of the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (Eiopa) talks to Paul Walsh about the authority's approach to reinsurance supervision, lapse risk and concerns with current EU developments

  

• MAS's Daniel Wang on Singapore's insurance challenge

  04 December 2023

  The head of the insurance department at the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) talks to Sarfraz Thind about tackling global risks and how the country is leveraging its climate expertise to shine on the world stage