1. Compare the operating model
Document the workflows, users, volumes, jurisdictions, integrations, controls and reporting outcomes rather than starting with vendor module names.
Platform comparison
Regure vs Legacy Reinsurance Systems
Regure is cloud-native, API-first and configuration-led. It is designed to run placement, administration and accounting workflows without on-premise infrastructure or customer-specific forks, while keeping human approval and transaction evidence explicit. Built for COOs, CTOs and operations leaders evaluating reinsurance software.
Why modern reinsurance platform needs an operational record
The meaningful comparison is not a feature checklist. It is how the system changes, how quickly an operating rule can be configured, whether data can leave cleanly, whether upgrades interrupt the business, and whether AI operates inside governed workflows.
Regure is cloud-native, API-first and configuration-led. It is designed to run placement, administration and accounting workflows without on-premise infrastructure or customer-specific forks, while keeping human approval and transaction evidence explicit.
The design principle is straightforward: commercial terms, operational state, financial movements, documents and control evidence should not be separate representations of the same deal. They should be views of one governed record. That removes re-keying and makes the answer to a buyer, finance team, auditor or regulator reproducible.
Cloud-native multi-tenant architectureControlled on the transaction, not reconstructed later
No on-premise upgrade programmeConfigured to the operating model and jurisdiction
Configuration instead of code forksTraceable from source data to approved output
Operating workflow
How the work moves through Regure
Each stage has an owner, required information, allowed transitions and an audit history. Exceptions are routed rather than hidden in email.
2. Test representative transactions
Use real facultative, treaty, endorsement, claim, bordereau and closing scenarios to expose where manual work remains.
3. Examine change and ownership
Ask who can change a rule, how it is tested, what an upgrade affects, how data is exported and how configuration is audited.
4. Measure total operating cost
Include infrastructure, upgrades, custom code, reconciliation, support, control failures and the staff time needed to bridge system gaps.
Capabilities
Regure vs Legacy Reinsurance Systems: functional scope
The scope covers the transaction itself and the controls needed to operate it. Modules can run together or integrate with a retained policy, finance or data platform.
Cloud-native multi-tenant architecture
Cloud-native multi-tenant architecture is held against the relevant cedant, contract, market, accounting period and document set. Required fields, approval rules and outputs are configured for the business rather than embedded as fixed assumptions.
No on-premise upgrade programme
No on-premise upgrade programme is held against the relevant cedant, contract, market, accounting period and document set. Required fields, approval rules and outputs are configured for the business rather than embedded as fixed assumptions.
Configuration instead of code forks
Configuration instead of code forks is held against the relevant cedant, contract, market, accounting period and document set. Required fields, approval rules and outputs are configured for the business rather than embedded as fixed assumptions.
Document and workflow AI
Document and workflow AI is held against the relevant cedant, contract, market, accounting period and document set. Required fields, approval rules and outputs are configured for the business rather than embedded as fixed assumptions.
API-first data exchange
API-first data exchange is held against the relevant cedant, contract, market, accounting period and document set. Required fields, approval rules and outputs are configured for the business rather than embedded as fixed assumptions.
Regional deployment options
Regional deployment options is held against the relevant cedant, contract, market, accounting period and document set. Required fields, approval rules and outputs are configured for the business rather than embedded as fixed assumptions.
Continuous security maintenance
Continuous security maintenance is held against the relevant cedant, contract, market, accounting period and document set. Required fields, approval rules and outputs are configured for the business rather than embedded as fixed assumptions.
Portable governed data
Portable governed data is held against the relevant cedant, contract, market, accounting period and document set. Required fields, approval rules and outputs are configured for the business rather than embedded as fixed assumptions.
Architecture and integration
A modern reinsurance platform does not become another silo
API-first boundaries
Regure can receive submissions, policy transactions, claims and reference data, then publish approved placement, accounting and reporting results. Interfaces use stable identifiers and reconciliation states so failed or duplicate transfers remain visible.
Multi-currency by transaction
Original, deal and settlement currencies remain explicit. Exchange rates are stored with their date, source and purpose, allowing debit notes, credit notes, commission, claims and recoveries to reconcile without overwriting contractual values.
Configurable jurisdictions
Legal entities, offices, permissions, documents, disclosures, approval thresholds and retention rules can vary by jurisdiction while the operating model and reporting taxonomy remain consistent across the group.
Control framework
Controls embedded in the reinsurance workflow
A control is useful when it changes what can happen before the transaction commits, not when it only reports an exception afterward.
Independent tenant isolation
The platform records the applicable rule, responsible role, decision, supporting evidence and timestamp. Authorized exceptions remain explicit and reportable.
Role-based change approval
The platform records the applicable rule, responsible role, decision, supporting evidence and timestamp. Authorized exceptions remain explicit and reportable.
Versioned configuration
The platform records the applicable rule, responsible role, decision, supporting evidence and timestamp. Authorized exceptions remain explicit and reportable.
API authentication and logs
The platform records the applicable rule, responsible role, decision, supporting evidence and timestamp. Authorized exceptions remain explicit and reportable.
Human review for AI output
The platform records the applicable rule, responsible role, decision, supporting evidence and timestamp. Authorized exceptions remain explicit and reportable.
Exportable transaction history
The platform records the applicable rule, responsible role, decision, supporting evidence and timestamp. Authorized exceptions remain explicit and reportable.
Operating model
What changes when the reinsurance record is connected
The business case for modern reinsurance platform is not fewer screens. It is fewer breaks between the commercial decision, the contract, the accounting movement and the evidence used to defend them.
One definition of participation
A market’s offered, written and signed positions are different facts and remain different fields. The signed position drives allocation, documents and downstream accounting; earlier positions remain available for placement analysis. Users no longer have to decide which spreadsheet column should be treated as final, and management reporting does not count an indication as bound capacity.
Documents generated from approved data
Slips, endorsements, debit notes, credit notes, statements and bordereaux are produced from the approved transaction state. Templates control presentation, but they do not become a shadow database. If an amount or participant changes, the system records the change, routes approval where required and regenerates the affected output with its version history intact.
Accounting tied to commercial terms
Premium, brokerage, ceding commission, tax, instalments, claims and recoveries refer to the contract terms and participant shares that created them. Finance can trace a balance to the underlying transaction, while brokers and underwriters can see whether a signed deal has been closed, invoiced, settled or left outstanding.
Management information from live work
Pipeline, capacity, renewal, outstanding documentation, aged balances and control exceptions are views of current records. Teams do not stop operating to prepare a management pack. Definitions can still be governed centrally, but every reported figure retains the transactions that make it up.
Buyer evaluation
Questions to ask a modern reinsurance platform vendor
Can the system show the transaction at any prior date?
A current value is insufficient for audit, dispute handling and operational learning. Ask whether users can see who changed a term or share, the previous value, the reason, the approval and which documents were valid at that moment. A general activity log is not a substitute for field-level history.
What is configuration, and what requires development?
Test a real change: a new commission basis, approval threshold, output template, currency or reporting field. Establish who can make it, how it is tested, how it is promoted, whether it affects other tenants and how rollback works. This exposes the actual cost and lead time of operating change.
How are exceptions reconciled?
Interfaces, calculations and document generation will encounter incomplete or conflicting records. The important question is whether exceptions have identifiers, owners, status, evidence and a controlled retry path. Silent skips and downloadable error files simply create another manual queue outside the platform.
For a procurement exercise, use a fixed scenario pack across vendors: one new placement with multiple quote revisions, one mid-term change, one participant settling in another currency, one claim crossing an attachment point, one overdue recovery and one renewal with materially changed terms. Require the vendor to complete the chain and show the audit record, not just demonstrate isolated screens.
Implementation
Implement against a real book, not a generic process map
The implementation baseline is a representative set of live or recently completed transactions. Those cases expose the actual terms, documents, exceptions, roles and downstream requirements that a workshop diagram misses.
Discovery and model
Map products, treaty types, currencies, counterparties, approval authorities, templates, accounting events, interfaces and regulatory evidence. Separate genuine variation from historical workarounds.
Configure and prove
Run representative new business, renewal, endorsement, claim and settlement scenarios. Compare calculated values and generated documents with accepted source examples before user acceptance.
Migrate and operate
Move the active records needed for continuity, retain source identifiers, reconcile totals and establish ownership for configuration, data quality, integrations and release approval.
Review the wider platform architecture, security controls and pricing approach, or compare the operational chain across placement, treaty management, closings, bordereaux and recoveries.
Frequently asked questions
Questions buyers ask about modern reinsurance platform
What is modern reinsurance platform?
modern reinsurance platform is an operating system for the reinsurance record: parties, terms, market participation, financial movements, documents, approvals and evidence remain connected from the first submission through settlement and renewal.
Can modern reinsurance platform support facultative and treaty business?
Yes. Facultative business is managed risk by risk, while treaty business carries structures, periods, layers, participants, adjustments and performance terms. Both use the same controlled counterparty, document, accounting and audit services.
Does Regure support multiple currencies?
Yes. The deal currency, settlement currency and recorded exchange rate remain explicit. Premium, brokerage, commission, tax, claims and recoveries can therefore be reconciled without replacing the original contractual amount.
Can Regure work with an existing core or finance system?
Yes. Regure can run the reinsurance operation end to end or manage the placement and administration workflow beside an existing policy, general-ledger or data-warehouse system through configured APIs and controlled exports.
How does the platform support audit and compliance?
Every material state change records the actor, time, prior value, new value and supporting document. Permissions, approvals, sanctions evidence, counterparty records and generated documents remain attached to the transaction they governed.
How is implementation scoped?
Implementation starts with a representative book, its documents, approval rules, currencies, market roles and downstream outputs. Configuration is tested against real placements before migration and wider rollout.
See Regure vs Legacy Reinsurance Systems against your own workflow
Bring a representative placement, treaty, bordereau or recovery process. We will map the data, decisions, documents, controls and integrations needed to run it.