Analysis

• Nordea's Annette Olesen: "It feels good to move beyond the go-live date"

  19 January 2016

  The group chief risk officer for Nordea Life & Pensions talks to Christopher Cundy about her company's entry into the Solvency II world

• Catastrophe models and Solvency II - lessons learnt and challenges for the future

  14 January 2016

  Marta Abramska recounts how the EU regulation changed the cat modelling community and warns insurers to watch out for an explosion in bureaucracy

• Reinsurance buying evolves as Solvency II kicks off

  12 January 2016

  The arrival of Solvency II has not dominated the 1 January reinsurance renewals, but it is having a fundamental effect on buying strategies, according to brokers. Christopher Cundy reports

• Dear Shareholders...

  07 January 2016

  InsuranceERM imagines what the chairperson of a UK-based composite insurer might be telling its shareholders in 2018 about the evolution of Solvency II and other possible changes in prudential regulation

• What to expect in 2016?

  01 January 2016

  Solvency II comes into force today, but it will take a long time before firms enter a business-as-usual environment

• Solvency II spreads its tentacles

  29 December 2015

  Solvency II took longer than expected to be implemented in Europe, but what effect has that had on other risk-based capital initiatives across the globe? Asa Gibson reports

• The twists and turns of Solvency II negotiations

  22 December 2015

  A behind the scenes account of the drawn-out political negotiations, the private letters and corridor discussions, the unforeseen u-turns and the fiery arguments, the lengthy road trips and the snappy tweets, by Hugo Coelho

• ESRB's Mazzaferro: "We want to counter the narrative that insurers are not systemic"

  16 December 2015

  ESRB's head of secretariat makes the case for a countercyclical capital requirement and a liquidity requirement for insurers. Hugo Coelho reports

• Living up to the promise of internal models

  08 December 2015

  Supervisory approval is not the end of the Solvency II internal model process. From 1 January, models are for insurers to leverage and for insurers to lose. Hugo Coelho and Christopher Cundy report

• Preserving the diversity

  03 December 2015

  Designing Solvency II to fit the spectrum of EU insurers has not been entirely successful and national supervisors should be mindful of its threats to the business model of mutual firms, says Amice's Silvia Herms