Publications

AI Governance & Compliance

Artificial intelligence is becoming increasingly embedded across the insurance value chain, creating significant opportunities for innovation, efficiency and improved decision-making. [...]

Emerging Risks Initiative – Major Trends and Emerging Risk Radar 2026

The CRO Forum’s Emerging Risk Initiative continually scans the horizon to identify and communicate emerging risks facing the insurance industry [...]

Operational Resilience – The next five years, shifting from compliance to strategic capability

This paper provides a forward-looking, insurance-sector perspective on the evolving operational resilience landscape, highlighting key risks, regulatory expectations, and practical [...]

The global rise of Social Unrests

Strikes, Riots, and Civil Commotion (SRCC) have emerged as increasingly frequent and severe global phenomena, driven by a complex interplay [...]

PRESS RELEASE – NEW CHAIRPERSONS 2026

Françoise Gilles, AXA Group Chief Risk Officer, elected Chair of the CRO Forum. Françoise Gilles is AXA Group Chief Risk [...]

Understanding and mitigating the impacts of space-related risks

Modern society is fundamentally dependent on electricity, supporting sectors ranging from communications and industry to transportation, education, and healthcare. Considering [...]

The CRO Forum welcomes CNP Assurances Group as a new member

Founded initially in 1850, CNP Assurances Group, with headquarter in France, is a property and personal insurer with more than [...]

Emerging Risks Initiative – Major Trends and Emerging Risk Radar 2025

The CRO Forum’s Emerging Risk Initiative continually scans the horizon to identify and communicate emerging risks facing the insurance industry [...]

The CRO Forum elects new Vice-Chairperson

Fabian Uffer, SCOR Chief Risk Officer, elected vice-chair of the CRO Forum Fabian Uffer was appointed Chief Risk Officer of [...]

The CRO Forum elects Chair ad int.

Carolina Otero is appointed Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and member of the Management Committee of Allianz Spain as per 1 [...]

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 [...]