Archive

  • MetLife reports error in capital ratio

    15 October 2015

    Accounting mistake meant RBC ratio was overstated

  • "The HLA creates more instability than it subtracts" – Axa's Thimann

    13 October 2015

    Christian Thimann, head of public of affairs at France's largest insurance group, is critical of regulators' plans to tackle systemic risk in the insurance sector. He talks to Hugo Coelho

  • More than 170 delegates expected at Insurance Risk & Capital

    13 October 2015

    Third edition of InsuranceERM's conference takes place in three weeks

  • Regulators pledge to tame HLA volatility

    06 October 2015

    Reviews of the capital requirement will focus on smoothing swings

  • 10% capital surcharge for too-big-to-fail insurers

    05 October 2015

    IAIS releases first formula of the higher loss absorbency requirement

  • FIO attacks scope and timing of state regulators' captive reform

    05 October 2015

    Proposed rules insufficient to stop insurers from using captives to overly reduce level of reserves

  • FSB endorses "first version" of the HLA

    28 September 2015

    Requirement will be revised before implementation in 2019

  • Capital metrics for systemic insurers "flawed", insurers say

    28 September 2015

    BCR and Solvency II threaten to push firms in different directions

  • Eiopa sets standard for group solvency calculations in context of equivalence

    25 September 2015

    EU insurers should meet highest capital requirement in equivalent third-countries

  • MetLife's Kandarian takes regulatory lobbying role

    16 September 2015

    CEO to chair regulation group at the Institute of International Finance