by Tolani Makanjuola | Apr 25, 2023 | Business Analytics, General, Regulations
The multi-year implementation of the IFRS 17 accounting standard (“the standard”) has required significant enterprise-wide technology changes that have predictably proved challenging and complex for the insurance industry. Since 2017, industry players have...
by Joey Doyle | Oct 3, 2022 | Climate Risk, Regulations, Uncategorized
This blog series explores initial industry research into managing climate risk so that you understand what is at stake for your financial institution (FI), as well as how to get started with measuring and mitigating this emerging source of risk. We have presented an...
by Carmen Loh | Mar 15, 2022 | Regulations
Existing accounting practices in the insurance industry are inconsistent and unclear. This has led to the issuance of IFRS 17 Insurance Contracts – the first international Standard for insurance contracts. Because this Standard is based solely on principle and does...
by Cooper Brooks | Feb 28, 2022 | Data
This series focuses on Data Governance in Financial Institutions. Our first post introduced the fundamentals of Data Governance. This discussion centers on how to find root causes of problems in organizations and recommend actions to solve them. When analyzing deep...
by Cooper Brooks | Jan 27, 2022 | Data, Uncategorized
This blog series will focus on Data Governance in Financial Institutions. Our first post introduces data governance fundamentals. It will be followed by a discussion of root cause analysis, metadata, the five stages of data governance deployment, and a final blog that...
by Dominic Pazzula | Jun 16, 2021 | Private Capital Forecasting
The FRG Private Capital Forecasting (PCF) solution recently released a module for optimal pacing. Pacing refers to the planning of future commitments. Future commitments encompass a decision on commitment size as well as a decision on commitment timing. This is done...
by Carmen Loh | Jun 3, 2021 | Regulations
Previously, we talked about the 5 Ws of IFRS 17. This blog post (Part 2) will discuss the H: How does IFRS 17 replace IFRS 4? A Consistent Model Figure 1: The components that make up IFRS 17 insurance contract liabilities.[1] IFRS 17 introduces the General Measurement...
by Carmen Loh | Apr 20, 2021 | Regulations
International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) 17 Insurance Contracts, issued in 2017, represents a major overhaul on financial reporting for insurance companies. However, many in the financial industry are still unfamiliar with the Standards. This blog post, Part...
by Dominic Pazzula | Mar 29, 2021 | VOR
FRG regularly launches new models that will enhance the predictive capability of our VOR Private Capital Forecasting (PCF) solution. Together with our partner Preqin, FRG launched PCF last year to help private capital investors better forecast cash flows. Since then,...
by Hannah Wiser | Feb 23, 2021 | Artificial Intelligence
Through the lens of Financial Risk, this blog series will focus on Financial Institutions as a premier business use case for Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. This blog series has covered how a financial institution (FI) can use machine learning (ML) and...
