CRO Forum welcomes a.s.r. and Helvetia as new members in 2025
a.s.r. is active in all Dutch insurance markets and traces its history back to 1720 in Rotterdam. Numerous mergers and [...]
PRESS RELEASE – NEW CHAIRPERSONS 2025
Carolina Otero, Allianz Chief Risk Officer, elected Chair of the CRO Forum. Carolina was appointed Allianz´s Group Chief Risk Officer [...]
Navigating Uncertainty – A practitioner’s toolkit to managing emerging risks
Climate change, technological developments, social and demographic change and the changing geopolitical dynamics between developed and developing nations mean that [...]
Emerging Risks Initiative – Major Trends and Emerging Risk Radar 2024
The CRO Forum’s Emerging Risk Initiative continually scans the horizon to identify and communicate emerging risks facing the insurance industry [...]
Unmasking inflation – Best practices for (re)insurance Risk Managers
After years of absence from the major world economies, inflation risk has re-emerged in a global context characterised by a [...]
The CRO Forum welcomes Phoenix Group as a new member
Phoenix Assurance was founded in 1782 in London. Over the past two centuries, the group has grown through a series [...]
Press Release New Chairpersons 2024
Carlo Ferraresi, Generali Chief Risk Officer, elected Chair of the CRO Forum. Carlo Ferraresi is Group CRO of Assicurazioni Generali [...]
Breaking Point: Critical Infrastructures Disrupted
The risk of critical infrastructure disruption is constantly present today. In addition to climate change and the threat of cyber [...]
Emerging Risk Initiative – Major Trends and Emerging Risk Radar 2023
The CRO Forum’s Emerging Risk Initiative continually scans the horizon to identify and communicate emerging risks facing the insurance industry [...]
Ransomware Threats, Countermeasures and Trends within the Insurance Industry
The paper provides a view for re(insurance) organisations on the risks associated with ransomware, providing insights specific to the insurance [...]
Embedding digitalization into Governance, Risk Management and Compliance activities
Increased digitalization in society is leading to increased digitalization in the insurance industry impacting distribution, product design, underwriting and [...]
ORSA Stress and Scenario Testing – Best practice for assessing risks
In 2013 the CRO Forum published a paper on Scenario Analysis that provided principles that could be used by re(insurance) [...]
The CRO Forum welcomes new members
The CRO Forum welcomes SAMPO Group and Vienna Insurance Group (VIG) as new members, as of January 2023. SAMPO [...]
Energy Storage Systems – An Emerging Risk Perspective
The urgent need to accelerate the development of a resilient and sustainable future energy economy has been highlighted by the [...]
A new perspective on pandemics: Covid-19 insurance impacts and challenges.
In 2007 the CRO Forum published a paper on “Influenza Pandemics” that provided a consolidated view of the potential impact [...]
PRESS RELEASE NEW CHAIRPERSONS 2023 ELECTED
The CRO Forum is pleased to announce that Peter Giger, Chief Risk Officer of Zurich Insurance Group, is elected Chair [...]
Emerging Risk Initiative – Major Trends and Emerging Risk Radar – 2022 update
The CRO Forum’s Emerging Risk Initiative continually scans the horizon to identify and communicate emerging risks facing the insurance industry [...]
The Internet of Things (IoT) risks from an insurance perspective
The Internet of Things (IoT) is connecting the “virtual” world to physical reality: not only the devices we would normally [...]
Mental Health – The Hidden Crisis
Back in 2019, mental health conditions affected one in ten people worldwide. This was in pre-COVID times: before the global [...]
Mind the Sustainability Gap – Integrating sustainability into insurance risk management
The importance of building resilient infrastructure and promoting inclusive and sustainable industrialisation as well as fostering innovation, is increasingly recognised. [...]
The CRO Forum elects new Vice-Chairperson
Aylin Somersan Coqui was elected as the second Vice-Chair of the CRO Forum during the previous CRO Forum Meeting. Aylin [...]
Emerging Risk Initiative – Major Trends and Emerging Risk Radar – 2021 Update
The CRO Forum’s Emerging Risk Initiative continually scans the horizon to identify and communicate emerging risks facing the insurance industry. [...]
PRESS RELEASE: CRO Forum change in chairmanship
The CRO Forum announces a change in their chairmanship Allegra van Hövell – Patrizi has stepped down as Chair and [...]
The Three Lines Model
Recently, the ‘Three Lines Model’ has come under scrutiny and criticism as to whether it remains fit for purpose for [...]
Imagine all the People – Demographics and social change from an insurance perspective
After many years of constant population growth, the most recent demographic analyses are forecasting a progressive slowdown in population growth, [...]