Smart insurers would treat the implementation of IFRS 17 as an opportunity to transform their Financial and Actuarial operations to deliver more detailed, accurate and timely finance and risk information to their stakeholders.

Martyn van Wensveen

EY Asia-Pacific IFRS 17 Implementation and Finance Transformation Leader

Committed to helping financial services clients strategically prepare and reshape finance and risk functions. Ensures clients can meet today’s regulatory change and performance management agenda.

Areas of focus

Martyn has been working in Asia since 2013. Currently based in Singapore, his focus is supporting multiple large insurance clients in Asia with adopting the new accounting standards IFRS 17 and IFRS 9 and optimizing their financial reporting environments.

Martyn has more than 30 years of international consulting experience, primarily covering the insurance, banking, leasing, real estate, and pension asset management sectors.

As a seasoned hands-on consultant and regular speaker, Martyn has served more than 60 financial sector clients in Asia, Europe and Africa during his long consulting career.

Before transferring to Asia in 2013, Martyn spent his time in London, Zurich and Amsterdam serving some of the largest financial and corporate sector clients with their most complex finance and risk transformation challenges.

Martyn holds a Sloan Master’s degree from London Business School and a BSc in Business Informatics from the Higher School of Economics in Utrecht, Netherlands.

How Martyn is building a better working world

“I am excited and proud to be involved in a lot of consulting projects in both emerging and developed markets to help drive financial transparency and promote broader financial inclusion. Providing access to more meaningful, reliable and timely financial information based on internationally recognized standards ensures there is a level playing field which can make a real difference for our clients, their investors, regulators and ultimately in people’s lives.

Insurance fulfills an essential need of companies and people to off-load undue risks at a fair price.  Macroeconomic, social and regulatory trends continue to challenge insurers to adapt. I connect insurers with new reporting standards, advanced technologies and optimized operating models, enabling them to offer innovative products and services to meet the evolving needs of their clients.”

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