David Walker

Rising interest rates ease ZZR bill for German life firms

Many reported lower ZZR bills in 2021, while two expect none in 2022

IRDAI eases capital burden for key social insurance in India

Germany's DEVK broke three records, not all desirable, in 2021

Flooding linked to storm Bernd last summer cost the composite insurer €295m gross

Allianz pleads guilty to criminal charges in Australia

Charges related to statements in online travel policy sales

UK life firms must be able to re-accept ceded risk, PRA warns

Life firms have highly capitalised longevity risk relative to credit risk, the UK regulator says

Local ceding skyrockets in Russia as foreign commercial sanctions bite

Numerous nations stopped reinsuring Russian assets when Vladimir Putin attacked Ukraine

Italian regulator launches machine learning investigation

South Korean insurers given capital relief in bumpy investment markets

Paper bond losses trigger solvency re-think by regulator

Perils raises Australian Q1 flood loss estimate by A$1bn

German insurers' spare capacity for extreme weather risk could cover almost all properties

But Signal Iduna says only half of German homeowners buying "elemental cover" since Bernd