Archive

  • Eiopa recommends additional capital requirements for insurers' fossil fuel assets

    07 November 2024

    The Authority has published its report on prudential treatment of sustainability risks in Solvency II

  • Retail Investment Strategy my "greatest disappointment," says Mairead McGuinness

    22 October 2024

    European Commissioner for Financial Services reflects on her mandate

  • Draghi advises EU to revisit Solvency II capital charges as part of competitiveness plan

    09 September 2024

    EU requires surge in investment to close technology gap

  • Europe's climate resilience hinges on insurance and public-private cooperation

    03 September 2024

    The European Commission's Climate Resilience Dialogue has put insurance, and its greater cooperation with public authorities, at the heart of proposals to improve the bloc's resilience to climate change. Joshua Geer reports

  • Eiopa consults on standard formula charge for direct CCP exposures

    31 July 2024

    European authority suggests lowering capital requirements for central counterparty risk

  • European insurers call for change in Solvency II's supplemental reforms

    23 July 2024

    The European Commission's proposals for the Level 2 text of Solvency II need to be revised, according to Insurance Europe. Christopher Cundy and Joshua Geer report

  • The EU Taxonomy makes insurers look bad at sustainability - but is it fair?

    16 July 2024

    In their first year of reporting, several major insurers have disclosed that none of their activities qualify as sustainable. Joshua Geer investigates whether the insurers or the EU Taxonomy framework is at fault

  • European Commission launches AI in finance sector consultation

    18 June 2024
  • ECA 2024: Financial services are solutions to, not causes of, global risks, says European Commission official

    11 June 2024

    The deputy head of the insurance and pensions unit reflects on the previous mandate

  • Didier Millerot on the "dual transition", Solvency II and the future of regulation

    29 January 2024

    The European Commission's head of insurance talks to Joshua Geer about the Solvency II review, the two major challenges facing insurers and what the future regulatory landscape will look like