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  • Data and AI: insurer and regulator go tête à tête

    03 August 2023

    On a panel discussion at Insurance Europe's conference, Eiopa's Petra Hielkema and Alm. Brand's Anne Mette Toftegaard debated consumer trust, data, AI and the regulation that weaves them together, as Joshua Geer reports

  • Dutch watchdog warns of climate change's effects on insurability

    28 October 2021

    AFM warns some property will be uninsurable with climate change

  • Europe's insurers dispense comfort, and pumps, to flood-hit communities

    19 July 2021

    Dutch association tells riverside homeowners "you're still insurable"

  • How to avert the big data threat

    15 August 2019

    Big data analytics promises to revolutionise risk selection for insurers, but threatens to marginalise higher-risk groups. Paul Walsh investigates how the “solidarity monitor” devised by the Dutch insurance association can help avoid exclusion

  • Raise Solvency II thresholds for SMEs, urge Dutch and Irish insurers

    15 July 2019

    Insurers with annual premium income under €10m should not apply Solvency II, say trade associations

  • DNB paints "bleak picture" for Dutch insurers

    14 December 2016

    Industry at risk on various fronts, watchdog says

  • Dutch insurers tread the MA minefield

    24 March 2015

    The Dutch regulator is poised to publish guidance for insurers on use of the matching adjustment. Repackaging of mortgage loans is one bone of contention, another is the treatment of pension contracts. Hugo Coelho reports

  • Netherlands brings forward Solvency II reporting

    26 November 2014

    Supervisor could block dividend payouts of firms that fall under the SCR