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• UniCredit sets stage for expansion of life bancassurance business

  23 June 2025

  Italian group completes acquisition of CNP and Allianz joint ventures

• Italian life firms continued reinsuring lapse risk in 2024, SFCRs say

  29 May 2025

  Poste Vita's programme had a 41 percentage point effect on its solvency ratio

• Solvency data reveals eight Italian life firms' lapses outweighed their premiums in 2023

  11 October 2024

  Sector's total lapses were worth 52% of its gross written premium

• Poste Vita's lapse risk rises, but is less than half its Italian peers' average

  28 May 2024

  Surrenders mainly hit unit-linked and with-profits lines, according to SFCR

• Rescuers of Eurovita divulge details of bail-out plan

  22 April 2024

  Italian life insurer faced solvency pressure before rivals took liabilities

• Eurovita rescue plan will prevent contagion in Italy, says Moody's

  06 July 2023

  The rescuing insurers will share assets and liabilities, while banks cover liquidity from November

• Eurovita to be rescued by five insurers and banks

  03 July 2023

  Generali Italia, Intesa Sanpaolo Vita, Poste Vita, Unipol and Allianz to run operation holding policies

• Mass policy surrenders remain a blight on Europe's life insurers

  20 June 2023

  But reinsurers are stepping in to help manage lapse risk, and the EU's insurance chief is sanguine about the threat, as Christopher Cundy and Joshua Geer report

• ITAS and Poste Vita buy mass lapse reinsurance after surrenders jump

  22 May 2023

  Deals boost capital position as life insurers face competition from other products

• Ivass hails "significant reduction" in solvency ratio volatility in 2021

  01 July 2022

  Italian regulator comments on average ratio diving to 101% in Eiopa stress tests