Archive

• Focus on too-big-to-fail and you won't see the next crisis coming

  28 September 2015

  Allianz's Wemmer urges regulators to take an activity-based approach to tackle systemic risk

• Talanx holds €1.7bn buffer against model, emerging and strategic risks

  17 September 2015

  Voluntarily allocates 10% of own funds to cover uncertainties

• Eiopa confirms review of UFR methodology

  15 September 2015

  Official consultations have begun and will widen in 2016

• Dutch insurers derailed by Solvency II surprises

  20 August 2015

  Setbacks in internal model approvals have put a strain on Dutch insurers' plans for Solvency II and raised fears that the European industry is less prepared than it thinks, Hugo Coelho reports

• Talanx taps hidden reserves to finance ZZR

  12 August 2015

  German insurer reported a 77% increase in net realised gains on investments

• Hannover Re plans operational risk review after internal model approval

  11 August 2015

  Chief risk officer Eberhard Mueller talks to Christopher Cundy about the years of work behind its Solvency II internal model and how he plans to develop the reinsurer's approach to operational risk modelling

• Transitionals are a sign of weakness, says Allianz's Wemmer

  07 August 2015

  Rising bond yields drive up the insurer's solvency ratio

• Hannover Re wins approval for Solvency II internal model

  05 August 2015

  First model approved by a European regulator

• Solvency II transitionals keep half of German life insurers afloat

  30 July 2015

  Major efforts needed to plug €12bn shortfall, BaFin says

• Talanx drops from traditional life insurance market by end of 2016

  29 July 2015

  Move comes ahead of Solvency II and as low rates take their toll