BPCE - 2020 Universal Registration Document

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FINANCIAL REPORT

STATUTORY AUDITORS’ REPORT ON THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

Insurance Technical Reserves

Risk identified and main judgements

Our response

Within the scope of its insurance activities, Groupe BPCE records technical reserves related to the commitments toward insured persons. We deemed that the valuation of reserves to be a key audit matter as it represents a significant amount in the consolidated financial statements and that some of these reserves requires the exercise of judgment in the determination of underlying assumptions (actual mortality rates and behavior) or the use of calculation models, in particular in the context of public health crisis linked to the Covid-19 pandemic. The technicalreservesof the insurancecontractsamountto €103.8 billion at December 31, 2020. PleaseseeNote9.1.2to theconsolidatedfinancialstatements for further details.

We used our experts, the actuaries, to assist us in performing our audit procedures on these items. The main audit procedures implemented include, depending on the nature of the risks provisioned to: obtain an understanding of the general conditions relating to • insurance contracts marketed by the group; evaluate the methods and assumptions used to calculate the • reserves, specifically their compliance with applicable regulations, market practices and the economic and financial context; test, on the basis of accounting reconciliations, recurrence • tests, or surveys, the reliability of information relating to insurance contracts recorded in the managementsystems and used for the valuation of technical reserves; carry out an independent recalculation of specific reserves, • when necessary on the basis of a sampling of contracts; assess the methods of calculation and the result of the • adequacy of liabilities test, as required by IFRS 4. We also examined the disclosures published in the notes to Groupe BPCE’s consolidated financial statements relating to insurance liabilities and took note of the conclusions of CNP Assurances’ statutory auditors, consolidated by Groupe BPCE using the equity method.

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