Archive

• Fall in insurance premiums to lag growth of driverless cars

  19 January 2016

  UK insurers are starting to diversify their businesses, according to S&P

• Verisk polls 50 firms to develop cyber risk exposure data standard [UPDATED]

  19 January 2016

  Rival risk modeller RMS releases compatible standard

• Prudential states Solvency II ratio of 190%

  19 January 2016

  Figure reported at half-year 2015

• Reporting burden to increase as supervisors turn attention to conduct risk

  18 January 2016

  Preventive approach reliant on risk indicators such as commission levels

• PRA caps benefit from matching adjustment

  18 January 2016

  "Reverse engineering" to bring parameters back in line with liquidity premium

• London court kills discussion on the "right" level of excess capital

  18 January 2016

  Judge dismisses policyholder fears in Rothesay Life transfer case

• PRA's Woods defends use of internal model yardsticks

  15 January 2016

  'Quantitative framework' needed to inform assessment of the strength of calibrations

• MetLife's spin-off subsidiaries suffer ratings downgrade

  14 January 2016

  S&P and Moody's cite capital intensity and lack of group support

• Catastrophe models and Solvency II - lessons learnt and challenges for the future

  14 January 2016

  Marta Abramska recounts how the EU regulation changed the cat modelling community and warns insurers to watch out for an explosion in bureaucracy

• Commission shelves ESRB report until Solvency II review

  14 January 2016

  Evidence justifying need for bank-like countercyclical requirement for insurers is not conclusive, officials say