Archive

  • Regulators investigate the private equity-insurer love-in

    04 February 2022

    Private 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

  • Dutch MEP decries privatisation of ESG data important to insurers

    03 February 2022

    Kieler Rück CEO calls European Single Access Point a "game changer"

  • Tokio Marine joins Net-Zero Insurance Alliance

    19 January 2022

    Physical risks from warming a "prudential issue" for Asia's regulators, says Japan's FSA

  • Chinese insurers' solvency fell in H1 2021, with more drops expected

    19 January 2022

    Only non-life firms managed to defend ratios in Q1-Q2 2021

  • Credit Suisse files $1.2bn insurance claims for Greensill losses

    14 January 2022

    Bank seeking to recoup some of its $10bn losses on supply chain funds

  • Lloyd's predicts stable solvency in China as C-Ross Phase II begins

    11 January 2022

    Practitioners expect volatile solvency levels elsewhere in China

  • China Life chairman being investigated for "serious violations" of law

    10 January 2022

    Lifer says it plans appointing replacement soon

  • C-Ross Phase II to depress Chinese insurers' solvency ratios

    04 January 2022

    Regulations will usher in new risk charges this quarter

  • China's regulator praises insurers for Covid-19 business support

    29 December 2021

    The CBIRC also detailed some risk failings in 2021

  • Apac re/insurers welcome the alternative

    29 December 2021

    Regulators 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