An evolution of climate-related risk metrics for the financial services sector is currently underway. Among other things this evolution will help insurers to work towards understanding the challenges and eventually disclosing the carbon intensity of [...]
Medical advances have significantly improved existing medical practice and will continue do so in the future. Such developments will not only bring benefits for clinicians and patients, but also opportunities and challenges for insurers adapting [...]
The CRO forum is pleased to announce that Frieder Knüpling, Group Chief Risk Officer of SCOR, has been elected CRO Forum Chair for 2020. Frieder has been Group Chief Risk Officer of SCOR since January [...]
More than ten years on from the global financial crisis, liquidity risk remains an important theme for the financial services industry, including for re/insurers. The crisis triggered changes in market dynamics. The paper highlights the [...]
Date: 11 July 2019 Allegra van Hövell – Patrizi was elected as the second Vice-Chair of the CRO Forum during the previous CRO Forum meeting. Allegra has been the Chief Risk Officer of Aegon N.V. [...]
Since the birth of the Bitcoin cryptocurrency, over the last few years hype has surrounded Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) and especially blockchain. These technologies have not yet delivered on promises, but experts believe that DLT [...]
The CRO Forum’s Emerging Risk Initiative continually scans the horizon to identify and communicate emerging risks facing the insurance industry. The Emerging Risk Initiative identified the current major trends and emerging risk which are expected [...]
Insurers are developing and deploying increasingly complex Big Data tools, first for post-sales purposes such as claims handling and customer service, but also potentially for sales, pricing and underwriting. These Big Data and AI tools [...]
Date: 13 May 2019 Angela Darlington has stepped down as Chair and member of the CRO Forum following her appointment as interim CEO of Aviva Group’s UK Insurance business, effective immediately. Jan-Hendrik Erasmus, former Vice-Chair [...]
The science behind global warming and the role of greenhouse gases is clear. However, the future is difficult to predict given the wide range of potential outcomes associated with the many variables and varying emissions [...]
