Risk & Capital Management
Open Platform vs. Open Source
Karen Clark noted that her company's RiskInsight "open platform" currently is the only one in the industry already used by insurers and reinsurers. But what about the Oasis framework, launched by 21 ...
Large International Insurers Challenged by Increasing Regulatory Burden
There is an increased focus globally on international insurance regulation driven by efforts within the G20 major economies to strengthen the international regulatory regime since the financial ...
How to Develop a Robust Risk Appetite Statement
In a recent Own Risk and Solvency Assessment webinar conducted by FTI Consulting, more than 50 percent of attendees stated they had not adequately defined risk appetite as part of their ORSA ...
Guy Carpenter Launches Next-Gen Canada Flood Model
Guy Carpenter launched its G-CAT Canada Flood Model, which it describes as the first ever probabilistic model for Canada that enables insurers to assess their exposure to flood, Canada's most ...
Security Breaches Reveal Airport Vulnerabilities
Several hundred times over the last decade, intruders have hopped fences, slipped past guardhouses, crashed their cars through gates or otherwise breached perimeter security at the nation's busiest ...
A.M. Best’s New Capital Model Still a Work in Progress
Changes to A.M. Best's capital model are in the works, but the form they will take is still unclear—even to Best analysts working to test possible metrics for this key component of ...
RMS Releases Latest Europe Windstorm and North Atlantic Hurricane Models
Catastrophe risk modeler RMS has released version 15.0 of its RMS Europe Windstorm and RMS North Atlantic Hurricane Models. Matthew Grant, general manager of models and data at RMS, said the updated ...