Analysis

• My 'A' is not like yours

  18 August 2016

  Fitch and AM Best are wrangling over the equivalency of their IFS rating scale. Hugo Coelho investigates what sets them apart and the implications for insurers buying reinsurance protection

• Reinsurers renew lobbying efforts to avoid G-Sii designation

  09 August 2016

  A move from quantitative to qualitative indicators of global systemic risk is threatening to make the designation process more opaque for reinsurers. Callum Tanner reports

• L'exception française?

  02 August 2016

  The French government is proposing to exempt supplementary pension products from Solvency II capital requirements, a seismic change that will give the sector much needed relief. Hugo Coelho reports

• The stress of going sub-zero

  28 July 2016

  UK insurers modelling the risk that interest rates move into negative territory are finding that the capital implications of doing so are less than straightforward. Hugo Coelho reports

• IAIS reaches fork in the road on systemic risk

  26 July 2016

  International regulators are opening up to the idea of framing systemic risk in market-wide activities rather than individual companies. Callum Tanner reports

• Post-Brexit slump makes mockery of Eiopa stress test

  21 July 2016

  The UK's Solvency II discount rates at the end of June put insurers in a worse position than the stress test scenario, so what can insurers and regulators hope to learn? Hugo Coelho reports

• Oasis lays roots in cat modelling scene

  14 July 2016

  The Oasis Loss Modelling Framework promised much, but has it delivered? Christopher Cundy reports on the crucial challenges it faces in the coming months

• Top tips for top-down validation

  07 July 2016

  Boards have struggled to get comfortable with validation of internal models. LCP's Charl Cronje suggests some ideas that may help

• Commission stands in the way of UFR reduction

  05 July 2016

  Stakeholders are sidestepping Eiopa and turning to Brussels in a bid to preserve the Solvency II long-term discount rate. Hugo Coelho reports

• Declining UK influence suggests far-reaching Solvency II reforms

  30 June 2016

  National supervisors argue that looming reviews of the standard formula and the long-term guarantees package could be wider than expected now the UK has voted to leave the EU. Hugo Coelho reports