5 Decisions impacting ‘Data on Cloud’ strategy for insurers

Insurance companies are doubling down on their data, analytics and A.I investments to be ready to compete in a ‘Post-Covid’ digital economy. In the last couple of years, multiple cloud-based technology platforms have emerged and Insurers are actively exploring ways to take advantage of this technology ecosystem. It is not an easy decision as technology is rapidly evolving and there are many strategic questions to ponder - · How do you ensure that you have an ability to pivot in future in response to evolving technology and business needs ? · Should you redefine your data model or continue with the same ? · What should be your data integration strategy? · What kind of A.I/ML capabilities you need to provide ? · How do you provide a self-service data visualization augmented by A.I ? I have explored these aspects in my ‘Point of View’ article - 5 Decisions impacting ‘Data on Cloud’ strategy for insurers - https://www.lntinfotech.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/POV-5-Decisions-Impacting-Data-on-Cloud-Strategy-of-Insurance-Enterprise.pdf?pdf=download

AI driven Knowledge Management

I have been working with a large insurance company to define its knowledge management strategy and solution architecture. As I dug deeper into business scenarios, I realized that ‘Knowledge Management’ is the key area where A.I technologies will have immediate and significant impact on insurer’s bottom line. .... click here for more -> https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/ai-driven-knowledge-management-amit-unde/

Applying AI in Insurance

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Connected Insurance – How will it be in 10 Years from now?

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Coming down from the Ivory Tower of Enterprise Architecture

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End of Insurance as we know it

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Insurance: Regulations likely to bring back more focus on ‘Risk Management’ practices and global visibility

At recent G20 Summits, the G20 Leaders endorsed the implementation of an integrated set of policy measures to address the risks to the global financial system from systemically important financial institutions (G-SIFIs). Accordingly FSB (Financial Stability Board), in conjunction with IAIS (International Association of Insurance Supervisors) identified an initial list of Global Systemically Important Insurers (G-SIIs) consisting of 9 groups:

1) Allianz, 2) AIG, 3) Generali, 4) Aviva, 5) Axa, 6) MetLife, 7) Ping An, 8) Prudential Financial and 9) Prudential plc.

Basically, FSB is trying to solve 'Too big to fail' problem by hand picking large global institutes and subjecting them to a set of policy measures.


Although the initial focus is on these designated global SIFIs, it may eventually come down to all large, internationally active carriers. Many domestic regulators are likely to designate domestically important insurers and apply policy measures on the similar lines. In June 2013, U.S Department of Treasury FSOC designated AIG and Prudential Financial as SIFIs, and both will be subject to stricter regulatory standards and supervisory oversight under the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act.

The set of policy measures comprise:
• recovery and resolution planning requirements;
• enhanced group-wide supervision; and
• higher loss absorbency requirements ( including non-traditional non-insurance (NTNI) subsidiaries)

The impact of these regulations is still being worked out, however, at the minimum, it requires following from IT perspective -
• Integration of data sources for recovery/resolution and risk management across the group
• Identification of changes to Risk management metrics and bringing in visibility at group and legal entity level
• Identification of intra-group exposures
• Approach for ring fencing NTNIs and development of risk management plan & systems

In July 2014, Systematically important Reinsurers will be identified and they are likely to have similar impact. I will update this entry as we do more research on this.