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  • Brazil awaits impact from market risk model

    16 August 2013

    Insurers in Brazil are awaiting the outcome of tests on a new model for calculating capital requirements for market risk - the latest step in the country's gradual move towards a Solvency II-style regime. Christopher Cundy reports

  • G-SII "backstop capital" a springboard to global capital standard

    11 July 2013

    Zurich CEO says fragmented capital rules are intolerable in the long term

  • PRA's Bailey: "We have a good way to go to make Solvency II manageable"

    09 July 2013

    Speech to ABI conference defends use of early warning indicators

  • NAIC CEO Nelson criticises IAIS and ComFrame

    14 June 2013

    Tells Congress international regulatory approaches are too rigid

  • Australian regulator sees room for improvement in first ORSA submissions

    06 June 2013

    But industry generally does a "good job" on Lagic implementation

  • Asia solvency reforms - part 3

    24 May 2013

    In the third and final part of our feature on the developments of insurance regulation in Asia, we look developments in the growing market of India, as well as Indonesia, South Korea and Taiwan

  • Asia solvency reforms - part 2

    17 May 2013

    In the second part of our feature on the developments of Asian regulatory regimes for insurers, Lorna Davies and Chris Cundy look in to solvency reforms in Malaysia, Japan and Thailand

  • Data governance is vital focus for industry

    15 May 2013

    London conference will address issues around data management and the demands of Solvency II

  • Bermuda pressing on regardless of Solvency II

    15 May 2013

    Bermuda's efforts to improve its supervision of insurance companies have suffered few setbacks, unlike in Europe. Craig Swan, managing director of supervision at the Bermuda Monetary Authority, tells Lorna Davies how the country will this year introduce new rules for captives, group capital requirements and internal models

  • Asian solvency reforms - part 1

    10 May 2013

    Asian insurance markets have been growing fast, in terms of both their size and sophistication, and national supervisors are responding to the international pressure to improve their prudential regulatory regimes. Developments in Hong Kong, China and Singapore are covered in this first part