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26 February 2024

Bermuda's tax bomb is a boon, says Karel Van Hulle

From new tax rules to an ever-expanding life market, Bermuda is in a transformational phase. Karel Van Hulle, the father of Solvency II and a BMA board member, tells Sarfraz Thind why these changes will do the market good
09 January 2024

Thabile Nyaba: tackling poverty, climate risk and diversity in South Africa

Old Mutual Insure's chief risk and sustainability officer explains how poverty, climate risk and geopolitics are impacting South Africa's insurance market. Nevertheless, she says there are many opportunities for insurers. Ronan McCaughey writes
04 December 2023

MAS's Daniel Wang on Singapore's insurance challenge

The head of the insurance department at the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) talks to Sarfraz Thind about tackling global risks and how the country is leveraging its climate expertise to shine on the world stage
16 October 2023

ICS remains stuck in the transatlantic rift

Thomas Sullivan, ex-Federal Reserve insurance chief, talks to Sarfraz Thind about his fight against the imposition of "European" capital standards on US markets
06 July 2023

US Aggregation Method framework ready for launch

The wheels are in motion to fix the Aggregation Method for the US and for once everyone seems happy. Gary Anderson, commissioner of the Massachusetts Division of Insurance, talks about the process towards one global capital standard

News

  • Hong Kong regulator agrees to RBC concessions after industry consultation

    26 April 2024

    But Insurance Authority rebuffs requests for change to capital amounts and actuarial appointments

  • "Resilient" ICS will pass despite obstacles

    25 April 2024

    But IAIS will have to satisfy US demands to get Insurance Capital Standard done, say ex-regulators

  • Brighthouse's RBC ratio rises after new hedging valuation rules

    13 February 2024

    US life insurer implemented updates to VM-21 in Q4 2023

  • Insurance Risk & Capital Bermuda - three weeks to go!

    04 October 2023

    Event takes place at Rosewood Bermuda hotel on 25 October

  • Sun Life Hong Kong becomes latest early adopter of Hong Kong's RBC regime

    06 September 2023

    The insurer joins AIA, Prudential and FWD in adopting the rules

  • South Korea's insurers to assess strategies following K-ICS implementation

    01 September 2023

    Less than half of firms using transitional measures to ease introduction of capital rules

  • RGA completes £5bn UK longevity swap, but no US PRT, in Q2

    08 August 2023

    US life and health reinsurer also closes deal with domestic Japanese insurer

  • FWD reveals key business metrics in flotation document

    13 March 2023

    Deemed hospitalisation sent Japan Covid claims rocketing in 2022

  • China's industry practitioners praise CBIRC as dissolution flagged

    10 March 2023

    Regulator's duties to be subsumed into larger body

  • International regulations fail when they favour one market, says ex-Fed chief

    07 March 2023

    Insurance rules stymied when politics get involved, US regulators say

  • Fitch questions if co-insurance demand will hold up in South Korea

    08 February 2023

    Arrangements transferred interest rate risks amid ultra-low environment

  • IAIS heralds "critical year" for Insurance Capital Standard

    12 January 2023

    Public consultation and economic impact assessment due on the ICS

  • New Zealand regulator shows compromise on actuaries' proposed roles

    22 March 2022

    RBNZ did want solvency, outsourcing and conduct insights from appointed actuaries

  • Intact happy with IAIG label

    07 February 2022

    Impact of being designated as internationally active insurer is "extremely limited"

  • IAIS to focus on climate change, systemic risk and ICS

    18 January 2022

    Supervisors' association outlines priorities for next two years

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  2. Asset-intensive reinsurance intensively assessed
  3. Insurance, Climate Change and the Law: how to be an enabler, not a doomist, on climate action
  4. UK's Consumer Duty: a headache on top of a cost-of-living crisis
  5. Munich Re's syndicate "significantly" helps to cut group underwriting emissions by 80%
  6. IFRS 17 may unlock fresh metrics for analysing insurers' growth, says KPMG
  7. Swiss Re's group CEO Christian Mumenthaler to step down
  8. Has IFRS 17 improved comparability and consistency? The jury is still out
  9. Climate litigation's third wave could leave insurers in deep water
  10. Eiopa pinpoints IFRS 17's negative impact on shareholders' equity