What’s New on the RMS Intelligent Risk Platform?

RMS is constantly adding new capabilities to the RMS Intelligent Risk Platform™ (IRP), our open, modular, cloud-native digital foundation for RMS models and unified risk analytics. As the gateway to robust risk analytics and in-depth data, the IRP brings together a trusted data repository, collaborative applications, and open APIs to help deliver better business outcomes. 

Our powerful, cloud-native applications hosted on the IRP are designed to allow multiple users to gain insights into potential hazards, exposures, and accumulations. During September, RMS released multiple updates for both its ExposureIQ™ and Risk Modeler™ applications, to give clients access to the latest technologies and innovations. This update will help show how RMS is continuing to invest in the latest science, technology, and data by providing an in-depth look at the new features and a brief overview of our improvements to existing capabilities.  

In the IRP September releases, we added new features to Risk Modeler, our cloud-native catastrophe modeling application that unifies all our client’s risk modeling needs for greater workload and cost efficiency: 

• Marginal Impact Analyses: Quantify the impact of writing additional layers to a portfolio. (New Feature) 
• Climate Change Model Analyses for RMS U.S. Inland Flood HD Model: Expanded model profile options that apply the climate change model to a broader range of existing analyses. (Improvement). 

In addition, we also made several big improvements to existing capabilities of Risk Modeler and ExposureIQ, including: 

• Results Data Module (RDM) Schema Updates: Transact with High Definition (HD) model results more with greater ease (Risk Modeler) 
• New Risk Modeler APIs: New and updated services are now available via APIs (Risk Modeler) 
• More Geocoding Resolutions for Geopolitical and Geopolitical Spider Accumulations (ExposureIQ)

NEW FEATURES

Risk Modeler: Marginal Impact Analyses

An individual policy may appear like a good risk based on your underwriting guidelines. But you may think twice about insuring it if you see how it contributes to the overall portfolio risk. In the September update, Risk Modeler added the ability to run a marginal impact analysis to quantify the impact of writing additional layers to your reference portfolio. Marginal impact analysis will be available for the following financial perspectives:

• Client Loss 
• Facultative Reinsurance Loss 
• Gross Loss 
• Ground Up Loss 
• Net Loss Pre-Cat 
• Quota Share Treaty Loss 
• Reinsurance Gross Loss 
• Reinsurance Net Loss 
• Surplus Share Treaty Loss 
• Working Excess 

BENEFITS
Marginal impact analysis allows users to better understand the risk drivers within a portfolio, to improve profitability and deliver effective capital allocation.  

Risk Modeler: Climate Change Model Analyses for U.S. Inland Flood HD Model

RMS now has the largest portfolio of climate change catastrophe risk models, which includes North Atlantic Hurricane, North America Wildfire, U.S. Inland Flood, Japan Typhoon and Flood, Europe Inland Flood, and Europe Windstorm perils.

In the September update, RMS expanded the capabilities to run climate change model analyses on U.S. Inland Flood HD Model results. Users can now apply climate change model analysis to a broader range of existing analyses and ensure that the application of climate change is consistent with the assumptions used in the development of the event mapping files. This update expands the High Definition (HD) profile settings to support additional simulation sets, 800,000 simulation periods, and number of samples greater than one. 

BENEFITS
Build a more consistent view of a book of business by aligning climate change model parameters with a reference view of flood and hurricane risk.

UPDATES

Risk Modeler: Results Data Module (RDM) schema Updates to making it easier to Transact with HD Model Results

The latest Risk Modeler release updates the HD model RDM schema so that users can store and share results more easily at different granularities with their internal and external stakeholders.

BENEFITS
The new RDM schema facilitates sharing HD results with other parties, helps consolidate storage for HD and DLM/ALM loss results, and simplifies query loss results using SQL scripts.

Risk Modeler: New and Updated APIs

Risk Modeler currently supports 380 API operations. The September 2022 release updates RDM export and earthquake hazard lookup and adds a new service for marginal impact analyses APIs. For details, see the changelog in OWL.

BENEFITS
Automate key workflows across applications using standardized, pre-defined processes.

ExposureIQ Update: New Geocoding Resolutions for Geopolitical and Geopolitical Spider Accumulations

ExposureIQ enables users to visualize and report on global exposure concentrations and hotspots. With a range of accumulation reports available, users can drill down to detailed geographic resolutions helping to quickly identify key drivers of loss.

RMS has expanded the set of geocoding resolutions on which users can run a geopolitical analysis or geopolitical spider accumulation to offer more geographical granularities for analysis. For geopolitical spider accumulations, users can now specify more geographic areas, including CRESTA and city-level. In addition, users can select from the expanded list of resolutions at which to calculate losses, such as running accumulations for every city within a given country. The table below summarizes all the types of accumulations currently supported by ExposureIQ.

BENEFITS
Identify key loss drivers and more focused areas of exposure concentrations and hotspots.

For additional information on Risk Modeler, ExposureIQ, or the IRP, you can visit the Risk Modeler, ExposureIQ, or Intelligent Risk Platform webpages. You can also access release notes on OWL, the RMS Client Support portal.