Archive

  • Sweden's insurance regulator lists 2023 priorities

    23 January 2023

    High inflation and cyber risk will be focal points for Finansinspektionen

  • Sweden begins price-walking probe

    16 February 2022

    Follows on from efforts in Ireland and UK to end discriminatory pricing

  • Changes to Eiopa's management board

    17 April 2020

    Two new members have been elected

  • Late transposition hampers Solvency II applications

    04 September 2015

    More than half of European countries have not yet written Solvency II into their national laws, prompting supervisors to set up voluntary processes to apply for internal models and adjustments. Hugo Coelho reports

  • First box ticked in Solvency II data reporting

    28 July 2015

    Fears that insurers would flounder in the first test of their Solvency II reporting systems have eased, but it has not all been plain sailing. Christopher Cundy reports

  • The curious case of the Swedish curve

    10 March 2015

    Eiopa has cut of the convergence period for the Swedish risk-free rate curve to 10 years from 50, citing the particular characteristics of the bond market. The change will reduce interest rate sensitivity, but increase the risk that insurers under-reserve. Hugo Coelho reports

  • National regulators at odds over Solvency II volatility adjustment

    22 January 2015

    InsuranceERM's survey highlights inconsistency in how regulators plan to implement key tool of the long-term guarantee package.

  • Swedish insurers stressed out by Eiopa's tests

    16 January 2015

    Swedish insurers fared badly in the stress tests conducted by Eiopa, proving to be the most vulnerable to a Japanese scenario. Hugo Coelho asks Finansinspektionen's Per Griberg to explain