Archive

  • IAIS launches ICS 2.0 level 2 texts

    16 March 2020

    Latest document contains more details than level 1

  • South Korea's regulatory change likely to boost insurers' solvency

    27 February 2020

    Co-insurance will also bring opportunities to reinsurers, says AM Best

  • AAIC's ERM journey: inspired by Europe

    25 February 2020

    AAIC's CRO Lorie Graham started the company's ERM programme in 2008 at a time when the US reinsurance sector had few models to look at. So she took her inspiration from the Europeans, she tells Sarfraz Thind

  • COMMENT: Putting the ICS to the test

    21 February 2020

    Jonathan Dixon, secretary general of the International Association of Insurance Supervisors, discusses the organisation's plans for monitoring the global Insurance Capital Standard

  • Eiopa hits back at the French ICS revolution

    21 February 2020

    Some prominent French re/insurers don't want the Insurance Capital Standard in its current form, angering EU and US negotiators alike. Eiopa looks determined to carry on regardless. The IAIS is treading carefully. It is a fraught situation and some practitioners believe the standard could even collapse under its own weight, as Sarfraz Thind reports

  • The Philippines' regulator issues minimum capital warning

    19 February 2020

    Come up with P900m minimum capital by 28 February or face closure, insurers are warned

  • Kyobo Life deploys Aon's PathWise as financial risk management platform

    12 February 2020

    The offering covers IFRS 17 and K-ICS reporting

  • French insurers say "non" to Insurance Capital Standard

    11 February 2020

    Eight re/insurers decline to participate in testing of global capital measure

  • Flood, climate, capital: NAIC president Ray Farmer's agenda for 2020

    21 January 2020

    Ray Farmer is the new president of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners. In this Q&A with Sarfraz Thind, he talks about flood coverage, international regulation and how he intends to raise climate awareness

  • New Zealand to consider additional solvency buffer for insurers

    27 November 2019

    RBNZ also to scrutinise insurers' conduct