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  • New EU financial services commissioner sets tone for insurance regulation

    07 November 2024

    Maria Luís Albuquerque has outlined her regulatory priorities and established her vision for stability, streamlined compliance and consumer-focused innovation. Joshua Geer reports

  • Insurance Ireland's wish list from Solvency II review and IRRD trilogues

    04 October 2023

    The trade body has called for a targeted definition of significant cross-border activities

  • Danish regulator to stress-test lapse rates of 20%

    27 April 2023

    Insurance and market scenarios set for eight insurance and pension groups

  • EU Parliament's Solvency II negotiations drag on to 2023

    21 December 2022

    Parties still far apart on sustainability and long-term guarantee package

  • Chubb, RenaissanceRe and Axa reveal hurricane Ian losses

    04 November 2022

    Catastrophe risk modellers have predicted insured losses as high as $74bn from the hurricane

  • EU committee shocked as Ferber deletes climate measures in Solvency II reforms

    14 June 2022

    German MEP says green-supporting factors are "beyond his imagination".

  • Immo Querner to leave Talanx after 14 years as CFO

    02 June 2020

    Jan Wicke will replace Querner at the German insurer

  • IASB's Hoogervorst defends IFRS 17 as global standard, despite US exclusion

    18 February 2020

    Chair of accounting standards board says life insurer troubles could have been avoided

  • Swiss Re shelves second share buy-back plan

    31 October 2019

    Nat cats, Thomas Cook liquidation and Ethiopian Airlines crash impacted Swiss Re’s non-life results

  • Econ capitulates on objections to Solvency II reforms

    03 April 2019

    European Parliament’s Economic and Finance Committee had threatened to derail amendments to standard formula