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• MEPs press Commission to think again on Solvency II amendments

  23 January 2019

  Four areas need immediate attention, Econ committee says

• Solvency II: what reforms can we expect?

  27 December 2018

  Christopher Cundy examines what will change with the two scheduled reviews of Solvency II and the other issues set to influence the EU's landmark insurance legislation

• European insurers prepare for UFR change pain

  06 April 2017

  Cutting the ultimate forward rate to about 3.65% over the next five years will drag down European insurers' solvency ratios as the pain of low rates feeds into long-term discounting. The big question now is whether MEPs, the Commission and German industry will work together to block Eiopa's methodology. Callum Tanner reports

• MEPs question Japan's temporary Solvency II equivalence

  01 February 2016

  Evidence of compliance with equivalence requirements is lacking

• European Commission backtracks on Solvency II equivalence plans

  24 November 2015

  No more equivalence acts will follow Bermuda and Japan

• European Parliament delays Solvency II equivalence decision

  20 July 2015

  Econ committee demands three-month extension