Analysis

• Marine insurance blockchain platform hopes to cut costs, risks and capital

  07 June 2018

  The world's first blockchain platform for the marine insurance sector was launched at the end of May. Paul Walsh sits down with some of the platform's leaders to discuss how it will save costs and reduce risk

  

• SFCRs: "We're not sure any policyholders read them"

  06 June 2018

  Insurers say their solvency and financial condition reports (SFCRs) are barely read by customers, so how should they evolve to better suit their audience? Christopher Cundy reports on this and other views and experiences with the public Solvency II document

  

• 2018 Atlantic hurricane season - the calm after the storm?

  01 June 2018

  Last year's Atlantic hurricane season was one of the most catastrophic in recent memory with insured losses estimated at over $130bn. Now 12 months later and on the first official day of the season, forecasters believe relative calmness awaits. But forecasters are often wrong. Paul Walsh reports.

  

• Cyber risk still a struggle for insurers

  30 May 2018

  Progress in managing cyber risk exposures is continuing, but are insurers doing enough to convince regulators that they understand what they're doing? Paul Walsh reports

  

• Raj Singh: from CRO to insurtech investor

  24 May 2018

  Standard Life's former chief risk officer talks to Christopher Cundy about his decision to join the ranks of the insurance disruptors and how his new venture – Kasko2Go – is facing up to the challenge

  

• Microinsurance offers a lesson in technology and agility

  22 May 2018

  Opportunities in emerging markets are flourishing, but traditional insurers cannot simply transpose their western business models. Aggelos Andreou finds the use of technology and a change in mindset are the keys to opening the doors

  

• Why the insurance industry needs a new risk governance model

  17 May 2018

  The traditional 'three lines of defence' model for risk governance needs improvement to deal with a fast-changing and technologically advanced economy, argues Henry Essert in part one of this two-part analysis

  

• The thinking behind Milliman's Mind

  15 May 2018

  Milliman launched its Mind solution for actuarial modelling at the start of this year. Christopher Cundy talks to the lead developer and one of the first users of the innovative solution that bridges the gap to the actuary's favourite tool, Excel

  

• Eiopa's plans for regulatory convergence

  10 May 2018

  Patrick Hoedjes, head of the oversight and supervisory convergence department at Eiopa, talks to Aggelos Andreou about the difficulties of achieving regulatory harmonisation across Europe in an ever-changing landscape and how the authority intends to tackle the big obstacles like Brexit

  

• Realising the potential of operational risk management

  01 May 2018

  Madeline Betts, Justin Elks and Daniel Bruce set out practical and proportionate ways to improve operational risk processes that add tangible value to a business