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  • French life firms boost returns on individual and group products in 2023

    14 August 2024

    ACPR report examined changes in policyholder revaluation rates since 2022

  • FWU insolvency could spook Italian life market

    09 August 2024

    Fitch Ratings warns situation could provoke reactions similar to Eurovita collapse

  • French insurers improve responses in second climate stress test

    23 May 2024

    A total of 15 insurance groups, representing 90% of the market, voluntarily responded to the supervisor's request

  • Lapses worth €84bn drive net outflows from French insurers in 2023

    15 May 2024

    Surrender payments were double the claims payments made by French life firms last year

  • French regulator focuses on interest rate risk and ALM in 2024

    15 January 2024

    The ACPR revealed its priorities as part of its work programme for this year

  • French supervisor launches second climate stress test for insurers

    07 July 2023

    ACPR aims to test impact of extreme but plausible weather events in new short-term scenario

  • Data quality policies "rarely deployed in their entirety", French supervisor finds

    23 February 2023

    ACPR survey reveals weaknesses in data used for solvency calculations

  • French regulator spells out supervisory priorities for 2023

    15 February 2023

    Second climate change stress test planned this year

  • 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

  • Rising expectations: how supervisors are acting on climate change

    21 October 2021

    Anna Sweeney explains how global supervisors are collaborating in order to help insurers grasp the implications of climate change - and improve the sector's response to the risk