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Shah: Aviva uses Julia for all Solvency II regulatory reporting

Viral Shah · A Fresh Approach to Technical Computing // Viral Shah & Stefan Karpinski, Julia Computing · Sep 28, 2017 · at 14:03

Viral Shah, co-founder and CEO of Julia Computing, discusses corporate adoption of Julia across financial services and insurance.

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“Aviva, one of the largest insurers in Europe, uses Julia for all of their regulatory reporting around solvency too.”

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The claim, plainly

European insurer Aviva uses the Julia programming language for all of its Solvency II regulatory reporting.

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Assessment

Aviva publicly confirmed and documented its use of Julia for Solvency II compliance, specifically for its internal capital allocation and risk simulation models (delivering significant performance improvements over legacy systems). However, public case studies and documentation do not confirm that Julia was used for 'all' Solvency II regulatory reporting across the entire company, as wider reporting pipelines and SFCR filings involve additional enterprise systems.

March & May 2017: Tim Thornham (Aviva) presented on Solvency II compliant capital allocation models using Julia at Aviva.
June 19, 2017: Julia Computing seed funding press release quoted Aviva regarding Solvency II compliant models in Julia being 1,000x faster than legacy systems.
Public case studies restrict Julia's documented scope at Aviva to core risk and capital allocation modeling rather than the entire end-to-end regulatory reporting pipeline.

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[1] wilmott.com [2] youtube.com [3] youtube.com [4] juliahub.com [5] juliahub.com [6] juliahub.com [7] aviva.io [8] centralbank.ie

Aviva Julia Solvency II "Tim Thornham" "Solvency II" Julia Aviva Julia computing Aviva case study "Aviva" "Julia" "Solvency II" capital models

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