Analysis

• ALM and capital management under Hong Kong's RBC

  07 July 2022

  Richard Chan, Hong Kong chief investment officer and Asia head of ALM at Axa, discusses Hong Kong's forthcoming risk-based capital regime and how insurers will respond

  

• Insurers' hidden risk from reinsurance recaptures: the perspective of UK annuity writers

  01 July 2022

  Mudi Ugono and Brad Ashton discuss the findings from a working party on how a reinsurer default could affect insurer balance sheets - and how the management of this risk could be improved

  

• IAIS 2022: bringing the party back to insurance

  28 June 2022

  June's meeting of international regulators was a sunny affair in an idyllic setting. Even the ever-lurking shadow of the ICS couldn't spoil the party after two years of isolation. Sarfraz Thind reports

  

• Blockchain in insurance: surviving the wreckage

  24 June 2022

  Blockchain technology has so far failed to revolutionise the insurance business, but it has found some niches where it seems to be enduring. Paul Walsh reports

  

• Insurers feeling hamstrung as protection gaps widen

  21 June 2022

  Current global events and left-field risks are contributing to widening protection gaps and insurers may be restricted in their attempts to reduce them. Paul Walsh reports

  

• Hanfa's Ilijana Jeleč: Croatian insurers face a challenging year

  13 June 2022

  Ahead of hosting the IAIS Global Seminar this week, Croatia's insurance regulator Ilijana Jeleč talks Sarfraz Thind about developing the market in this land of a thousand islands

  

• IFRS IC likely to stand its ground on IFRS 17 annuity decision

  08 June 2022

  Staff at the IFRS Interpretations Committee have backed the original decision on annuity accounting, going against the view of most stakeholders. Cintia Cheong reports

  

• Bigger does not mean better for insurers

  02 June 2022

  Expanding an insurance business in good times typically meant growing profits. In today's tougher economic environment, Europe's largest insurers are being much more prudent about spending capital, and are only considering very careful expansion, as David Walker writes

  

• Scepticism about the UK's Solvency II savings

  30 May 2022

  The UK government is projecting a meaningful reduction in capital requirements from its prudential regulation reforms. But some question whether the redesign will make any difference, as Christopher Cundy reports

  

• Systemic risk warnings put Sifi regulation back in play

  27 May 2022

  Macro risks are piling up for insurers, prompting US regulators and lawmakers to suggest bringing back the "systemically important financial institution" designation. Sarfraz Thind reports