Willis Towers Watson launches new RiskAgility Financial Modeller for life insurers

By Megha Bhattacharya

Willis Towers Watson today announced the launch of a new version of RiskAgility Financial Modeller, its financial modelling and reporting software technology for life insurers. RiskAgility FM 3.0 provides life and health insurers with a new calculation approach to actuarial modelling and aims to run typically ten times faster than current software.

Mark Brown, Global Product Leader, Life Financial Modelling, Willis Towers Watson, said, “The need to be faster, better and cheaper when delivering actuarial calculations is a concern for many CFOs, CROs and Chief Actuaries. The new calculation engine from Willis Towers Watson has enabled them to make significant improvements in all areas, giving them more confidence in their ability to deliver regulatory and internal reporting on time; and allowing them to better model the risks they cover, leading to significant competitive advantage.”

According to Willis Towers Watson, RiskAgility FM 3.0’s new calculation engine has been designed to complement Unify, it’s workflow automation and governance platform. The company’s next-generation calculation engine, available through RiskAgility FM 3.0, enables models to run faster than previously possible, reducing financial and environmental costs of current hardware or PAYG cloud compute resources.

Marcus Bowser, Head of Life Consulting, UK and Ireland, Willis Towers Watson, said, “Solvency II and IFRS 17 require insurers to perform ever more assessments of their balance sheet and profitability, which has inevitably led to a sharp rise in demand for greater computational power and increased infrastructure costs. But now it is possible to cut these costs down to size. The phenomenal performance gains achieved by the RiskAgility FM development team are truly game-changing for insurers, and will see significant cost reductions for insurers adopting RiskAgility FM 3.0.”