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Regulators investigate the private equity-insurer love-in
04 February 2022Private equity companies have been acquiring insurers at an unheard of rate. Now regulators have raised concerns over asset risk and short-term greed overcoming long-term sense, as Sarfraz Thind reports
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Dutch MEP decries privatisation of ESG data important to insurers
03 February 2022Kieler Rück CEO calls European Single Access Point a "game changer"
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Tokio Marine joins Net-Zero Insurance Alliance
19 January 2022Physical risks from warming a "prudential issue" for Asia's regulators, says Japan's FSA
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Chinese insurers' solvency fell in H1 2021, with more drops expected
19 January 2022Only non-life firms managed to defend ratios in Q1-Q2 2021
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Credit Suisse files $1.2bn insurance claims for Greensill losses
14 January 2022Bank seeking to recoup some of its $10bn losses on supply chain funds
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Lloyd's predicts stable solvency in China as C-Ross Phase II begins
11 January 2022Practitioners expect volatile solvency levels elsewhere in China
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China Life chairman being investigated for "serious violations" of law
10 January 2022Lifer says it plans appointing replacement soon
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C-Ross Phase II to depress Chinese insurers' solvency ratios
04 January 2022Regulations will usher in new risk charges this quarter
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China's regulator praises insurers for Covid-19 business support
29 December 2021The CBIRC also detailed some risk failings in 2021
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Apac re/insurers welcome the alternative
29 December 2021Regulators in Asia have been busy creating frameworks for insurers to transfer risk to capital markets investors. Re/insurers are keen to tap this alternative source of capital, if the structures are right. David Walker reports