
Reviewing the latest IFRS17 trends, methodology and concluding plans for timelines and implementation
5TH EDITION IFRS 17 2020
29 September, 2020 | ETC Venues Monument

ENDORSEMENT PROCESS
Complexity and considerations for global institutions with impact of Brexit
REINSURANCE
Uncertainty and expectations of product treatments and effective treatment under IFRS 17
SYSTEM DESIGN
Building and embedding IFRS17 system and modelling requirements to develop effective infrastructure
KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS
Establishing and understand business performance under IFRS17 reporting
DATA
Requirements to identify approach and collecting granular level of historical data
AUDIT
Aligning requirements across the industry for one unified process to ensure comparability across organisations

TIMELINES
Understanding the impact of delays to final IFRS 17 implementation: benefits and consequences across institutions
COMMUNICATION
Understanding of impacts of IFRS17 on company accounts to internal and external stakeholders
CONTRACTUAL SERVICE MARGIN
Measuring and incorporating contractual service margin and classification of products under IFRS 17 across organisations
TRANSITION & IMPLEMENTATION
Reviewing the final standard requirements and integration with systems for effective implementation


Brian Birch
IFRS 17 Project Manager
Randall & Quilter

Martin Schmid
Head Valuation Life
Baloise Insurance Company

Alexandre Tzenev
Head of Structuring EMEA
SCOR Global Life

Jo Clube
Group Technical Accounting Director
Aviva

Oscar Kitasoboka
Chief Actuary
UAE Insurance Authority

Senior Executive
Financial Reporting Council

Stephen Bishop
Business Project Manager – IFRS 17 Reinsurance
Munich Re

EeLain Ong
CFO
DHL Insurance



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8:00 Registration and breakfast
8:50 Chair’s opening remarks
TRANSITION & IMPLEMENTATION – PANEL DISCUSSION
9:00 Reviewing the final standard requirements and integration with systems for effective implementation
- Establishing principles around practicality
- Reviewing status of integration of new actuarial system with current systems
- Managing time pressure leading to portfolio shortcuts vs full implementation
- Operational risk of portfolios at different stages of implementation
- Analysing final standard with industry expectations
- Clarity of perception of wording
- Benchmarking difference in IFRS and US GAAP
- Validating parallel runs across product
Oscar Kitasoboka, Chief Actuary, UAE Insurance Authority
Stephen Bishop, Business Project Manager – IFRS 17 Reinsurance, Munich Re
TIMELINES
9:45 Understanding the impact of delays to final IFRS 17 implementation: benefits and consequences across institutions
- Manging regulatory expectations with potential budget reductions
- Early implementation vs extension of the project by another year
- Procuring funds to finance extension on the project
- Management of operational readiness with timeline uncertainly
- Delayed EU decision: knock-on effect in other jurisdictions
10:25 Morning refreshment break & networking
ENDORSEMENT PROCESS
10:55 Managing complexity of the endorsement process and considerations for global institutions with impact of Brexit
- Reviewing endorsement advice from the commission
- Meeting the technical criteria
- Managing expected timeline of endorsement with uncertainty
- Brexit: UK submitting own endorsement outside EU
- Reviewing early interaction of the timing of the EU endorsement decision
Senior Executive, Financial Reporting Council
KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS
11:35 Establishing KPIs to manage and understand business performance under IFRS17 reporting
- Reviewing how KPIs are embedded into reporting
- Compatibility of KPIs with elements within the standard
- E.g. reviewing revenue and insurance expense as one unit or two
- Reviewing creating additional calculations and discourse
- Corresponding principles with the US GAPP standards
- Using parallel runs to preview the standard to understand KPIs
Jo Clube, Group Technical Accounting Director, Aviva
12:15 Lunch break and networking
REINSURANCE
1:15 Managing uncertainty and expectations of product treatments for reinsurance and effective treatment under IFRS 17
- Reviewing recovery of losses and underlying interest
- Manging IFRS17 granular reporting
- Achieving offset on onerous and non-onerous contracts
- Understanding new benefits and potential use of reinsurance
- Optimising the risk adjustment in the reinsurance
- Assessing the eligibility for the pre-meditation approach
- Managing estimates and use of actuarial resources to calculate expected cash flows
Alexandre Tzenev, Head of Structuring EMEA, SCOR Global Life
CONTRACTUAL SERVICE MARGIN
1:55 Measuring and incorporating contractual service margin and classification of products under IFRS 17
- Reviewing investment return
- Establishing how to measure the earnings over the number years
- Implementing recognition patterns
- Including the investment margins versus just a pure insurance margin
- Recognising CSM on the classification of the product
- Measuring and realising relative margins
- How much and what time
- Treatment of pure investment products under IFRS17
Martin Schmid, Head Valuation Life, Baloise Insurance Company
DATA – PANEL DISCUSSION
2:35 Reviewing IFRS 17 data requirements to identify data approach and collecting granular level of historical data
- Determining a data approach:
- Fair value, modified retrospective and fully retrospective
- Acquiring, cleaning and checking the data
- True interpretation of the principles and standard to create internal rules
- Producing and collective usable historical data in the right format
- Reviewing data across subsidiaries and identifying product specific data
- Developing new processes and controls over IFRS 17 data
- Incorporating data in a controlled way into a new software tool
Brian Birch, IFRS 17 Project Manager, Randall & Quilter
3:20 Afternoon refreshment break and networking
SYSTEM DESIGN
3:50 Building and embedding IFRS17 system and modelling requirements to develop effective infrastructure
- Merging actuarial inputs with the accounting inputs
- Compatibility of different formulas and systems at end calculation
- Costly element of getting system ready
- Upkeep and updated of systems
- Managing uncertainty of final output with limited historical case studies
- Reviewing how data reacts with different modelling systems
- Gaining an industry consensus on the technical approaches
- Reviewing theoretical requirements and resultant impression
AUDIT
4:30 Aligning audit requirements across the industry for one unified process to ensure comparability across organisations
- Preparation for initial audit of the transition
- Planning for fully retrospective transition and changes to numbers
- Managing different data flows from IFRS4 to IFRS17
- Ensuring Equity Liquidity Adjustment implementation with auditor expectations
- Organisation from audit to produce standard processes
- Alignment across the industry for one unified process
- Automatic document preparation
COMMUNICATION – PANEL DISCUSSION
5:10 Communication and understanding of impacts of IFRS17 on company accounts to internal and external stakeholders
- Explaining potential shifts in numbers to stakeholders and market
- Changes to income statement and premiums included in the future
- Treatment of investment components under IFRS 17
- Changes to calculating profits and recognition period
- Variations in recognition of profits over time, upfront or at end of contract
- Maintaining relationships with investors and explaining changes
- When should investors be prepared and educated on future numbers?
- Understanding and interpreting results to report to management
Oscar Kitasoboka, Chief Actuary, UAE Insurance Authority
EeLain Ong, CFO, DHL Insurance
5:55 Chair’s closing remarks and end of Forum




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