Insights

Discover how IFRS 17 is transforming insurance finance and actuarial roles—from planning and reporting to collaboration, technology and strategy.

Explore the application of expert judgement in insurance: aligning with regulatory expectations and industry best practice.

2025 reinsurance renewal: Key trends in property, casualty, and cyber markets. Gain insights on rates, catastrophe losses, and the insurance protection gap.

Learn the essentials of AI literacy for actuaries. Discover how AI and machine learning are transforming actuarial science through data handling, model building, and ethical AI use.

CBI's Dear CEO letter urges insurance firms to strengthen consumer protection frameworks, enhance risk management, and align governance for better consumer outcomes.

Stay compliant with EIOPA's new guidelines for captive insurers. Learn about cash pooling risks, prudent person principles, and governance in our detailed update.

Explore the role of the Head of Actuarial Function (HoAF) in addressing climate change risks in the (re)insurance sector, including responsibilities, CBI requirements, and latest guidance from IFoA.

The CBI has released its 2024/2025 Regulatory & Supervisory Outlook which sets out key trends, risk drivers and outlooks shaping the (re)insurance sector. Read our latest insight to find out more.

At Grant Thornton we have a wealth of insurance finance and accounting expertise ready to assist you in all aspects of your finance function requirements from interim resourcing to specialist finance topics to finance transformations.

Our focus in this paper is to develop decision making models using a range of advanced machine learning techniques. We explore three different methodologies to measure the discriminatory power between good and bad borrowers using a credit card portfolio dataset. The main hypothesis is that advanced modelling techniques lead to more efficient estimates and higher discriminatory power.

On 28 April 2021, the Irish Government transposed IORP II (Institution for Occupational Retirement Provision), an EU directive on the activities and supervision of pension schemes, into law.

On 30 January, the Central Bank published Guidance for (Re)insurance Undertakings on Intragroup Transactions and Exposures following a consultation that ended in September 2022.