One of the lessons I learnt very early on with CoVi Analytics when setting up a remote team was – Manage deliverables not time. Far too often I see managers clocking in when their team members come into work, break for lunch ...
I suspect that some insurers, particularly health insurers, will be sitting closer to their 100% Solvency ratio (SCR) mark, if not below, in their SII Q1 reporting. Will be interesting to see how regulators across Europe react to that! Recent ...
Did your travel insurer offer to pay you to cancel your holiday? As a minimum, travel insurers should inform their customers whether they are covered in an event of a lockdown. We are a little surprised that travel insurance companies ...
Why aren’t Op-Risk Frameworks simply – Know your ops (Controls), Test your Ops (Controls self-assessment) and Fix your ops (based on risk incidents). We have often seen risk teams describe Op Risk Frameworks with lots of flow charts, decision trees, ...
Taking weeks and months to roll out a control across the group? Here is how you can do it in just a few clicks with CoVi Analytics! Got cross border operations and want to achieve operational efficiencies? MGAs with Appointed Representatives ...
At its heart, the Senior Managers Regime (SMCR) is about identifying the WHO for responsibilities … get that right and the rest falls in place. If you are an intermediary and recently threw the kitchen sink at the SMCR to ...
What is the key activity of a Board? If you are thinking Strategy; that’s an output, not an activity. Be outward-looking for two things – opportunities and threats. In Risk Speak, this translates to consideration of: #EmergingRisks – things on the ...
Ensuring consistency in cross-jurisdictional operations, while still catering for local nuances is the biggest challenge for Group Ops (COOs) teams. We recently demonstrated to a North American insurance group how their group policies can be quickly adapted or adopted across ...
Banks, Insurers, Brokers, Asset managers are all in the business of selling promises. Money today for an outcome tomorrow. Financial Regulation is all about making sure that these financial firms keep their promises. The bigger the promise the more the ...
