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Solvency II extra year is vital for Spain

Solvency II extra year is vital for Spain

Many in Spain's insurance industry are struggling to keep up the momentum needed to be ready for the onerous demands of Solvency II. So both regulators and insurers in Spain seem to be grateful to have at least an extra year to prepare for implementation of the directive, as Lorna Davies reports

French insurers shy away from internal models

French insurers shy away from internal models

Only a handful of firms will be ready to implement an internal model and the whole French market is struggling to prepare for Solvency II, with mutuals particularly badly hit by the proposed new regulations. Sarfraz Thind reports

Minority of Norway's insurers opt for internal model

Minority of Norway's insurers opt for internal model

And of those, most will be going for a partial one. But the biggest challenge for firms preparing for Solvency II will be pillar 3, as Sarfraz Thind reports

Certainty, proportionality, common sense: what the industry craves from regulators in 2012

Certainty, proportionality, common sense: what the industry craves from regulators in 2012

Leading CROs and consultants give their views on how regulators and politicians may handle outstanding Solvency II implementation issues this year; on business strategy in response to this; and on the outlook for natural catastrophes. Here is a compilation of responses to the questions InsuranceERM asked experts just before Christmas

Solvency II shows the perils of not focusing on technical details

Solvency II shows the perils of not focusing on technical details

John Hibbert suggests that there are parallels between the way the Euro-zone debt crisis and Solvency II are being handled by Brussels

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