Analysis

• The unstoppable rise of insurtech in China

  06 February 2019

  Technology is driving growth in China's insurance markets, particularly among millennials, and investors remain keen to back insurtech firms despite continuing losses and potential regulatory challenges. Siyi Liu reports

  

• European regulators outline Brexit mitigation measures

  31 January 2019

  As the threat of a no-deal Brexit becomes more likely, some EU countries are stepping up their preparations to ensure service continuity. Cintia Cheong spoke to regulators and governments in five big EU27 markets to find out what they have planned

  

• How to sell an IFRS 17 lemon

  29 January 2019

  Andries Beukes and Pamela Hellig explains why a fair value loss component is improbable but not impossible under IFRS 17

  

• MPs grill Rule and Woods on equity release, ethics and Brexit

  24 January 2019

  The UK parliament's house Treasury Committee yesterday questioned Bank of England chiefs Sam Woods and David Rule on a host of issues, including diversity, management ethics, Brexit - and insurers' treatment of equity-release mortgages. Ronan McCaughey and Christopher Cundy report

  

• Silent cyber risk sparks rewording of insurance policies

  22 January 2019

  AIG and Allianz are among the insurers to have undertaken a large-scale effort to exclude silent cyber risk from their portfolios. Paul Walsh looks into the process and discovers how policies have been reworded to safeguard insurers and satisfy their customers

  

• Risk insights from outer space

  17 January 2019

  Satellite and drone technology has transformed the ability of re/insurers to assess risks and losses from natural catastrophes, as Dave Fox explains

  

• Capital models: run, review, repeat

  15 January 2019

  Recent surveys by consultancies Willis Towers Watson and PwC have revealed how UK life insurers have revised their approach to capital modelling. Christopher Cundy reports on some of the highlights

  

• Eric Cioppa, the regulator's regulator

  10 January 2019

  Maine's superintendent of insurance has taken on the mantle of NAIC president for 2019. He talks to Sarfraz Thind about regulatory priorities and how he will marshal the 50 states to reach a common view

  

• US life firms under pressure from accounting overhaul

  08 January 2019

  It has been billed as the biggest change in US accounting rules for decades. But reportage of the new US GAAP LDTI standard remains sparse. Since coming into effect in August, with an implementation deadline of 2021, companies have been scrambling to assess the impact. Sarfraz Thind reports

  

• Rebel with a cause

  03 January 2019

  Former UK insurance regulator Dean Buckner has become an influential blogger with a big ambition: correcting the illogical and unethical aspects of financial markets supervision. He talks to Christopher Cundy about equity release mortgages, Solvency II and IFRS 17