Archive

  • Australian regulator mulls shake-up to health insurance risk standards

    19 December 2016

    Apra intends applying common insurance risk standard framework

  • COMMENT: Eiopa stress test reopens old wounds on Solvency II

    16 December 2016

    Some see LTG measures masking life insurers' risks, others see macroprudential stability. By Callum Tanner

  • Use of Solvency II long-term guarantees in EU revealed

    16 December 2016

    852 firms using volatility adjustment, while just 38 using matching adjustment

  • Eiopa stress test reveals UK reliance on long-term guarantees package

    16 December 2016

    UK insurers' solvency drops to 51% on purer market-consistent basis

  • Eiopa to take action on life guarantees after stress test reveals vulnerabilities

    15 December 2016

    Combined low rates and double hit scenario wipe €260bn off EU insurers' balance sheets

  • Danish regulator demands insurers report on handling of big data

    15 December 2016

    Insurers must assess boards' abilities and internal controls

  • Direct Line's José Vazquez: navigating the digital world

    15 December 2016

    Direct Line's chief risk officer José Vazquez discusses how his risk team has evolved and how it is organising to respond to threats such as digitalisation, big data and driverless cars, with Christopher Cundy

  • PRA offers few concessions in update to TMTP rules

    15 December 2016

    No automatic recalculations and no benefit from changes in best estimate assumptions

  • Insured losses rise by a third after increase in natural disaster costs

    15 December 2016

    SwissRe research highlights protection gap has grown to $109bn

  • Scor increases contingent capital by €100m

    15 December 2016

    Switches from UBS to BNP Paribas