Archive

• Russian-Ukrainian exposure at Europe's insurers revealed

  30 May 2022

  Insurance Risk Data finds Allianz takes top spot for number of stakes in war-zone businesses

• Old accounting will remain for a while after IFRS 17 is adopted

  04 April 2022

  Requirement to explain connections between Solvency II and IFRS 17 will last much longer

• Regulatory filings reveal reinsurers' exposure to Russia

  01 March 2022

  Soviet business material to some, immaterial to most

• UK ends pandemic support for trade credit insurers

  26 May 2021

  Reinsurance scheme will finish on 30 June

• Governments win in Covid-19 trade credit reinsurance programmes

  07 April 2021

  Governments have profited from the support they offered trade credit insurers during the Covid-19 pandemic. Insurers say they have no regrets, but are looking forward to the end of state aid. David Walker reports

• Atradius post-tax profit falls 81% as provisioning leaps

  19 March 2021

  Trade insurer begins return to private, rather than state-backed, reinsurance

• UK trade credit reinsurance support programme extended

  04 January 2021

  Government will now help underwriters until at least June 2021, in line with situation in Germany

• German trade insurers win further six months' breathing room

  29 December 2020

  Public-private umbrella protection programme extended to June 2021

• UK government sets up £10bn trade credit reinsurance scheme

  04 June 2020

  To take part insurers must forgo profits and stop dividends

• Trade insurers voice support for UK government plan

  14 May 2020

  UK scheme follows others in Germany, France and Belgium