Key Takeaways From Networking with Qvins – Women in Insurance
More than fifty members gathered at Advisense’s office in Stockholm on 21 May 2025 to exchange ideas, discover sharp insights and widen the female talent pipeline in insurance. This evening, hosted by Qvins and Advisense, proved that when women across underwriting, compliance, cyber-risk and actuarial teams connect, the whole insurance ecosystem levels up.
Opening the event, CEO Christine Ehnström painted a clear picture of today’s landscape: accelerating digitalisation, tightening regulation and rising financial-crime risks means that strong governance, risk and compliance (GRC) functions are no longer optional.
Infiltration & Corruption in a Trust-Based State
Speaker: Louise Brown, Director Financial Crime Prevention
- Why it matters: Sweden ranks last in the Nordics for money-laundering exposure—illicit flows are estimated at 2.51 % of GDP, or SEK 150-200 billion annually, and more than 80 % of criminal networks use legal business structures to wash funds.
- The enabler problem: insiders in banks, real-estate firms and public bodies lower the barriers for organised crime, costing non-life insurers alone about SEK 7 billion in fraud each year.
- The fix: greater data capture, automated monitoring and agile risk-classification can raise detection rates while easing compliance workloads.
Effective prevention isn’t just defence – it’s a competitive edge for insurers prepared to act
DORA: A Game-Changer for Insurance?
Speaker: Camilia Zian Nyhuus, specialised in Cyber & ICT risk
- Context: Faster digitalisation and third-party reliance leave insurers exposed to escalating cyber threats.
- What DORA does: the EU’s Digital Operational Resilience Act imposes binding requirements across the full ICT-risk life cycle and is built on five pillars—ICT risk management, third-party oversight, digital stress-testing, incident reporting and threat-intelligence sharing.
- Why it’s a game-changer: what was once “best practice” is now law, moving ICT risk from the server room to the boardroom and—for the first time—placing certain critical tech providers under direct EU supervision.
Three Network Take-aways
- Visibility accelerates inclusion – featuring women experts normalises female leadership.
- Shared intelligence = faster adaptation – regulatory and cyber insights travel quickly in trusted circles.
- Collective voice, greater impact – coordinated action on diversity and resilience benefits the entire market.
Thank you to our speakers, hosts and every participant who brought curiosity, expertise and summer energy.
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