RISK SERVICES
We support insurance clients with all aspects of risk management and risk and capital reporting.
Overview of Risk Services
We help regulated insurance firms manage all aspects of their risk management frameworks, ensuring that they are operating in line with all relevant guidance from the relevant regulators.
Our Risk Services can be provided as required, or as part of a fixed cost retainer solution covering compliance and/or risk services.
What We Do
We support clients with the development and maintenance of risk frameworks including policies, appetites, key risk indicators and risk registers. We can assist you with annual planning, ORSA delivery, Stress and scenario testing, control effectiveness testing and risk analysis. ICSR has considerable practical experience in, and can assist with, various risk management matters such as:
- Developing Risk management Target Operating Models
- Risk management framework development and review (Solvency II compliant where necessary)
- Risk policies and processes development and review
- Risk appetite thresholds and tolerances
- Risk reporting frameworks
- Risk Culture, Conduct Risk and Cyber Risk assessments and implementation of recommendations
- Development and implementation of KRIs, Emerging Risks and Loss Events frameworks
- Programme/Project and M&A Risk Management
- Risk and control registers, development and review
- Annual risk management activity plan
- Control effectiveness testing/monitoring
- Stress and scenario development and testing
- ORSA frameworks (policy, process, report) preparation and review
- Solvency II System of Governance reviews
- Risk management outsourcing full/partial
- Reviews, audits and health checks on all aspects of a Risk function including resourcing, frameworks and all other activities such as reporting processes
- Selection and implementation of GRC applications
- Provision of Risk Management training to Control Owners, Risk Owners, C-Suite and NEDs
Key Contacts:
If you would like to know more about the way we could help your firm, please speak with one of our Risk specialists.
Latest Risk Case Studies
Supporting The Client With The Delivery Of A New Governance, Service And Operating Model As A Part Of A Corporate Restructure
Assisting Client With The Parameterisation Of Its Operational Risk Processes And The Redevelopment Of Its ORSA Process And Templates
Review client’s governance, control and risk frameworks to ensure that the operating model remained fit for purpose
Assist with changes to governance, capital model, risk, compliance, operations, claims functions and frameworks
Latest Risk Articles
ICSR Horizons Q3 2024: Our Quarterly Report For Senior Leaders
The Q3 2024 edition of Horizons, our quarterly report for senior leaders across compliance, risk and regulatory roles within insurance firms is now available. Download your copy now.
Labour: An Ideological Change In Regulatory Direction?
With no great surprise, we find ourselves with a labour government holding the reigns to power today for the first time in 14 years. Will that usher in an ideological change in regulatory direction for insurance leaders to contend with? Kenneth Underhill considers the issue.
Non-Financial Misconduct – We All Have A Responsibility To Address It
In the FCA’s Notice to Provide Information letter of 6th February, it launched a sector-wide information gathering exercise to assess the volume of incidents being reported by individual firms related to acts of non-financial misconduct. Kenneth Underhill considers where responsibility to address the issue lies.