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Reinsurance solutions for IFRS 17: overcoming challenges in earnings emergence
03 January 2025Two years on from the introduction of the insurance contract accounting standard, the market is beginning to understand how reinsurance can be used to manage issues around volatility and emergence of profits, as Paul Sauvé explains
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Eiopa's call for cross-border overhaul, and the path to a single EU supervisor
30 December 2024Challenges with supervising cross-border insurance sales has prompted the EU's insurance authority to demand greater powers. But could bigger events in Brussels overtake them? Christopher Cundy and Martin Assmann report
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UNEP FI's Butch Bacani: insurers raising presence at global climate talks
19 December 2024The UN Environment Programme's insurance leader talks to Joshua Geer about the sector's participation at the nature and climate COPs, the development of FIT and plans for 2025
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Australia's property insurance model caught off-guard by climate change
17 December 2024A series of unprecedented disasters has revealed serious flaws in how the non-life insurance sector operates, but critics are making suggestions on how to improve matters, as David Walker discovers
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RGA eyes global growth of funded re
16 December 2024RGA has been one of the prime movers in reinsuring the UK's pension risk transfer insurers. Izzy Bickford, director, business development, talks to Sarfraz Thind about the funded reinsurance business and how she sees it developing
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Navigating the repair challenges of electric cars
12 December 2024The high cost of fixing electric vehicles is a problem for consumers, insurers and society - and manufacturers and repair shops must take action, argues Anja Käfer-Rohrbach
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Funded Re under the regulatory microscope
10 December 2024Piggybacking off a booming life insurance market, the funded reinsurance business has grown to span continents. But the market has also attracted the beady eyes of regulators. What are the implications of increased oversight for funded reinsurance? Sarfraz Thind reports
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Breaking boundaries: a European approach to countering insurance fraud
05 December 2024International cooperation is becoming vital in the fight against fraudsters, argues Per Norström
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Buyer be where? Japanese insurers look beyond the horizon, for M&A deals
04 December 2024The rewards for Japan's insurers of overseas M&A include risk diversification, new customers and profit enhancement - but stakeholders tell David Walker that risks abound, as well
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Axa's Frédéric de Courtois talks the future of regulation, climate change, AI and emerging risks
02 December 2024The Insurance Europe president and Axa deputy CEO sat down with InsuranceERM to discuss challenges and opportunities in the evolving risk landscape. Joshua Geer reports
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