Analysis

  • Solvency II review comfortably survives parliamentary rebellion

    20 January 2026

    Greens/EFA-led bid to block insurance reforms fails as Commission defends capital relief and reiterates Eiopa safeguards. Joshua Geer reports

  • An undervalued risk? Addressing property underinsurance

    19 January 2026

    As populations worldwide face sharpening threats to their property, a danger of unintentionally underinsuring their assets looms ever larger. David Walker reports

  • The battle to price bad risk

    13 January 2026

    Panellists at Insurance Risk & Capital EMEA weighed public-private schemes, parametrics and data as ways to keep cover available as losses rise and tolerance for exclusions shrinks. Martin Assmann reports

  • Towards better climate scenario analysis

    09 January 2026

    The PRA/FCA Climate Financial Risk Forum (CFRF) has developed a free Online Climate Scenario Analysis Narrative tool to help financial institutions understand and explain future impacts from climate change. Loubna Benkirane explains how it works

  • Solvency II's most pressing simplification issue

    07 January 2026

    When every proposal leading to reducing the regulatory burden matters, Carlos Montalvo Rebuelta identifies the implementation date of the Solvency II reforms as an item that should be top of the agenda

  • How climate change is rewriting life and health insurance risk

    30 December 2025

    As climate impacts shift from episodic shocks to structural pressures, Generali's Gerardo Di Filippo describes the challenges it poses to traditional risk modelling, product design and capital planning. Joshua Geer reports

  • Assessing risk in "highly predictable" cashflows

    19 December 2025

    UK firms with matching adjustment portfolios must put some serious thought into assessing the risks associated with investing in HP assets, as James Sharpe, Charis Adu-Kwapong and Abraham Ashraf explain

  • Meet the CRO steering risk at Bitcoin life insurer Meanwhile

    16 December 2025

    Carsten Ragborg tells Ronan McCaughey about the Bermudian firm's risk management strategy and opportunities in the cryptocurrency space

  • Finding the solutions to the US homeowners crisis

    10 December 2025

    A surge in climate losses, inflation and market withdrawals has pushed parts of the US homeowners sector to breaking point. But proposals to stabilise the market reveal sharply different views over causes and solutions. Joshua Geer reports

  • IR&C EMEA: What the audience said about the state of risk management

    05 December 2025

    InsuranceERM's annual Insurance Risk & Capital EMEA conference returned to London this week. Martin Assmann and the editorial team report on what we learnt from the audience polling