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Data and risk modelling top insurers' Solvency II compliance needs

Open-access content Friday 13th January 2012 — updated 5.13pm, Wednesday 29th April 2020

Reliance on third-parties for data, sophisticated risk modelling needs and obtaining detailed fund data are the key challenges faced by European insurers in complying with Solvency II.

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New research by BNP Paribas Securities Services and InteDelta, which measured firms' progress towards delivery of the Solvency II directive's requirements, revealed that, although insurers are advanced in terms of preparing the directive's quantitative requirements (Pillar I), and have started addressing risk governance (Pillar II), significant work remains to implement and embed those requirements into their businesses.

Over half of respondents (57%) reported a significant dependence on third-parties for risk modelling and other critical data requirements, while challenges in sourcing data of sufficient granularity for certain funds and products were also reported.

In addition, 60% of insurers were yet to address the directive's disclosure requirements around public and regulatory reporting (Pillar III), anticipating that these will continue to develop. While most perceived Pillar III's requirements to be straightforward, many acknowledged that the scale of input - drawing heavily on data and analysis from Pillars I and II - presented a significant challenge within the deadline.

Maxime Gibault, head of insurance companies at BNP Paribas Securities Services commented: "While insurers have made a lot of progress towards gathering the quantitative requirements for Solvency II, the industry must now urgently address the directive's risk management and reporting requirements.

"New data traceability processes, additional data governance and new criteria for mandate reporting were all identified as being of critical importance to insurers. Yet, each of these appears challenging for some insurers that hold assets with third party managers, or those that hold externally-pooled funds requiring look-through reporting.

"What is clear is that insurers must re-engage with their asset managers over Solvency II in order to be compliant by 1 January 2014."

Key challenges identified in the survey include:

Risk governance must be extended to include data and analytics provided by third parties
- 57% of respondents reported high or medium exposure to third-party data providers
- Adopting dedicated data work streams within their overall Solvency II programmes will build a clear view of critical external dependencies for data sourcing and risk reporting

Fund managers play a key role in terms of data provision
- 80% identified affiliated and third-party fund managers as key data dependencies
- Challenge in securing sufficiently granular data for complex products and fund of funds
- Increasing requirements for risk modelling and securities services providers

The need to establish a fully functioning risk team
- Ensures risk management is embedded at all levels and day-to-day processes
- Perceived by respondents as major cultural change but better business management.

This article appeared in our January 2011 issue of The Actuary.
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