SETTING UP A CAPTIVE INSURANCE CARRIER

CLIENT

 

Headquartered in Malta, our client is the captive Insurance of a major French car manufacturer. It has operations across Europe, covers directly over 1M policy, and has a strong reinsurance practice for markets out of the Eurozone. The client decided to reintegrate their mortgage insurance portfolio and create a captive insurance company in Malta with the capability to operate in Europe.

OBJECTIVE

The customers board decided to create a captive carrier that would be fully operational within 12 months after the decision was made. In 6 months, the selection process was realized, and in the following 6 months, the project was executed. The respect of the timeline was a very strong objective, as the customer would be left with no solution to operate.

The objective was to have a heavily automated process with as little human intervention possible. Therefore, the focus was given on integration with the existing systems, and straight-through processing.

CHALLENGES

As it was a start-up process, the biggest challenge we faced was the lack of business know-how. Our customer was learning the insurance business with the help of an expert consultant.

 

The respect of the timeline was a heavy challenge as well, and we managed this through strong project governance, team dedication, and pragmatic sequencing approach.

WYNSURE SOLUTION

 

A full Wynsure stack was deployed (Policy Admin, Billing, Claim Management, Reinsurance, Document composer, GL Entry, etc.).

Mphasis’ team of 4 handled product configuration, interface development, project management and maintenance.

  • Initial Go-Live within 6 months for first country
  • Total migration of target country to Wynsure within 2 years
  • Interfaces were developed with General Ledger, Commission tools, Reporting tools
  • Multi-country, multi-language rollout
  • Reinsurance module rollout

 

PROJECT HIGHLIGHTS

  • 6 months from the end of the selection process and the first go-live (ahead of schedule)
  • Fully regional platform, one single instance of Wynsure used across 5 countries
  • Scalable solution, 1M+ active policies, with 20 concurrent users in 5 locations
  • New products and process migrated regularly into Wynsure (enhanced claim process – reinsurance module – document composer)

BUSINESS BENEFITS

Compelling Return on Investment, the overall project cost was positive within 6 months

Heavily automated management process (from underwriting to billing to claim management

Improved quality of customer relationship