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  • Japan's life and health insurers deliver relief to earthquake-hit customers

    18 January 2024

    Firms' waivers extend from payment deadlines to daily exercise requirements

  • What Italy's life insurers are saying about lapse risk

    05 May 2023

    Insurance Risk Data analyses firms' 2022 disclosures and predictions for 2023

  • IFRS 17: still waiting for disclosures

    04 August 2022

    The IFRS 17 accounting standard is due to be implemented in five months' time, but many insurers are leaving it until the eleventh hour to reveal what impact the transition will have on their financial metrics. Christopher Cundy and Paul Walsh report

  • Bigger does not mean better for insurers

    02 June 2022

    Expanding an insurance business in good times typically meant growing profits. In today's tougher economic environment, Europe's largest insurers are being much more prudent about spending capital, and are only considering very careful expansion, as David Walker writes

  • Full complexity of Europe's insurance groups revealed

    31 May 2022

    Despite Amanda Blanc's simplification drive, Aviva remains the UK's most complex insurer

  • Fidelis will not insure Australia's Carmichael coal project

    16 December 2020

    Firm is 28th re/insurer to publicly rule out doing so

  • Activists launch tool to scrutinise re/insurers' coal policy

    08 September 2020

    Axa amongst top insurers with most robust policy

  • COMMENT: French life insurers and their €37bn Christmas present

    28 August 2020

    Christopher Cundy and Cherise Veerasawmy discover the huge benefits from a change to French financial law at the end of last year

  • Crédit Agricole Assurances supports BI customers during Covid-19

    07 August 2020

    It was part of a "mutual and voluntary support scheme" for customers

  • Credit Agricole Assurances places €1bn of Tier 2 debt

    17 July 2020

    Debt issue to boost CAA's solvency ratio, refinance debt and broaden funding base