Archive

  • Legal & General completes £1.1bn buy-in with Deutsche Bank pension scheme

    29 October 2024

    Transaction brings total insured liabilities to £2.1bn for Deutsche Bank.

  • SFCRs shine light on German legacy life books of Zurich and Axa

    16 April 2024

    Groups have planned, with mixed success, to sell the back-books to consolidators

  • Moody's predicts German life consolidation to slow after Zurich-Viridium deal is cancelled

    01 February 2024

    Christian Badorff says that even the perception of BaFin rejecting PE-backed deals could decelerate activity

  • Athora Germany appoints CEO and CFO in push to complete Axa deal

    31 August 2023

    Immo Querner and Isabella Pfaller join life insurance consolidator

  • BaFin again bans unlicensed insurance work of "King of Germany"

    24 May 2023

    Reichsbürger extremists have been on BaFin's radar for at least nine years

  • Generali sells German pension vehicle to Frankfurter Leben

    04 May 2023
  • Skills scarcity concern at decades high, report German life firms

    14 February 2023

    Risk to domestic demand and liquidity become major worries, DIHK reveals

  • Germany's Reichsbürger revolutionaries founded illegal insurance companies

    19 December 2022

    Deutsche Gesundheitskasse was banned by BaFin five years ago

  • German actuaries warn of elevated mortality as climate change emerges

    15 November 2022

    Heat stress more likely as global climate warms, says DAV

  • Full extent of transitional measures in Germany revealed

    29 July 2022

    The measures and the volatility adjustment maintain capital adequacy for some insurers