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• Insurers urged to adopt common operational risk standards

  19 March 2015

  Survey by consortium Oric International exposes divergence of capital modelling practices

• Insurers feel the pull of longevity swaps

  13 March 2015

  Three years after Aegon started the market, index-based longevity swaps could become a trend across Europe as insurers seek to optimise their capital under Solvency II. Hugo Coelho reports

• Prepare for a wave of liability management transactions

  29 January 2015

  Solvency II is the driver, says Twelve Capital

• HLA is a life jacket in a desert, says de Castries

  04 December 2014

  Axa's chairman urges regulators to rethink tools to tackle systemic risks

• Moody's: Leverage ratios at lowest level since the crisis

  13 November 2014

  Insurers borrow less as declining earnings make debt servicing onerous

• FSB puts off designation of systemic reinsurers until 2016

  06 November 2014

  IAIS ordered to revise assessment methodology

• Insurance reforms to reshape Indonesian market

  04 November 2014

  Firms required to spin-off sharia-units over a decade

• Insurers welcome equivalence changes

  28 October 2014

  EC provides greater certainty on deduction and aggregation

• Large insurer capital base set to strengthen

  17 October 2014

  S&P suggests driver uncertainty over global capital standard

• S&P changes Axa outlook to positive

  16 October 2014

  Highlights strong capital adequacy