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Trends in Treasury for the Insurance Industry

Plan your priorities for 2022

Innovative developments in cash management, combined with the application of cutting-edge technologies, ensure that the corporate treasury function is heading towards a truly real-time, frictionless and data-rich environment. For treasurers in the insurance industry, this article looks ahead to the final quarter of 2021 and explores the key trends to understand and monitor.

Climate Change Risk Management for insurers

How to integrate into your governance, risk management and ORSA

Climate change risks are relatively newly identified risks that insurers are facing. These risks can negatively impact both assets and liabilities of insurers. Already in 2018, the European Commission requested the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA) to investigate how climate change risk could be integrated into the Solvency II Framework.

Traveling with bitcoins

In the past 20 years, all industries have felt the impact of technological innovation. In some cases, this impact has been so great that disruption has occurred. A clear and often used example is the travel industry, where companies that did not exist 20 years ago, like AirBnB and Booking.com, are now major players.

News Sentiment Analysis and Credit Risk

Do we still need humans to monitor and interpret qualitative data for our risk models?

Recent technological advances increase the possibility of using qualitative data in risk models to ensure a timelier recognition of threats. News articles, which can be seen as a type of unstructured data, are flooding the world every day. However, one can imagine the time it would take to manually process all this information. Recent developments in natural language processing (NLP) show some very promising results in automating that task by a computer. We assess the possibilities of these recent advances within credit risk management.

How can banks manage climate-related and environmental financial risks

Zanders developed a Scan & Plan Solution

Climate and environmental changes are viewed among the most important risks in society at present. As the financial sector is key for the transition towards a low-carbon and more circular economy, financial institutions have to deal with climate-related and environmental financial risks (C&E risks). At the same time, the increased importance of these C&E risks also presents new business opportunities for the financial sector. Therefore, to support banks in their self-assessment and action plans, Zanders developed a Scan & Plan Solution on C&E risks.