Thorsten Hein is a Principal Product Marketing Manager in the Risk Research and Quantitative Solutions Division at SAS Institute. He specialises in global risk management operations insights in both banking and insurance, focusing on risk and finance integration, IFRS, Solvency regulations and regulatory reporting. He helps risk management stakeholders to go beyond pure regulatory compliance and drive value-based management to maximise business performance, using his wide experience to deliver both business relevance and technical coherence.
Insurers, chief financial officers (CFOs) and actuaries will face overwhelming changes and challenges in the year ahead. These include compliance with new regulatory and solvency standards, pricing insurance premiums in line with inflation and other economic factors, addressing climate risk and ESG concerns, and adapting to new technologies. The impact
If the regulation is delayed, many insurers have embarked on the LDTI journey while focusing on Business Continuity efforts.
Until recently the approach to accounting for insurance contracts was considerably simple. Most of the existing accounting standards do not require any special processing after estimations are made by actuaries and before they are posted in the general ledger. However, with the arrival of IFRS 17, this will definitely change.
IFRS 9 came into force on 1 January 2018. It is fair to say that the implementation projects have generally taken rather longer than planned, and the long-term impact remains unclear, but broadly speaking, banks can be said to have managed the process reasonably well. However, with implementation costs running
IFRS 9 was always going to provide implementation challenges for banks. Besides the purely technical issues, there has been significant scrutiny from a very early stage involving regulators, investors and rating agencies, supervisory boards, and both external and internal auditors. However, it is not all bad: addressing the implementation challenges
IFRS 17 will mean major changes for insurers. My previous blog post discussed questions that would need to be considered about accounting and financial impact, as well as how to manage stakeholders. This post considers implementation, and particularly questions about IT. IFRS 17 is not due to come into force
This is the third blog post in a series on IFRS 17 implementation and what insurers need to consider. This one discusses questions about architecture and the importance of a systems approach to provide end-to-end coverage. Getting the architecture right for IFRS 17 implementation will need strong collaboration between different
IFRS 17 is a once-in-a-lifetime-change for insurance companies. It provides a set of new rules to improve the transparency of financial reporting in insurance companies, comparable to those of other industries. This will be a welcome change for analysts and other stakeholders, who have wanted this for a very long
Like stress testing, model risk management is one of the current ‘hot topics’ in banking. Discussed extensively at a recent risk executive roundtable in Amsterdam, it is clear that the issue is exercising minds to a considerable degree. What’s more, it is also only likely to become more important in
Stress testing is one of the hot topics of the moment for risk management in banking. A ‘stress test’ is an analysis designed to check whether the bank is holding enough capital to be able to manage a rapid downturn. It is, basically, a way to test the resilience of
