Archive

  • With-profits rules "disproportionately hard" for small mutuals

    16 January 2013

    FSA opened consultation in December

  • Capital add-ons are here to stay, says IAIS's Kawai

    15 January 2013

    Yoshihiro Kawai heads the International Association of Insurance Supervisors, the body responsible for contentious plans to oversee global insurance companies. He talks to Christopher Cundy about consensus and convergence

  • Solvency II and Basel III provide lessons for each other

    14 January 2013

    Insurance directive is broader than banking,says Groupe Consultatif Actuariel Européen

  • Autumn adoption for Omnibus II most likely scenario

    10 January 2013

    Commission suggested January 2015 start for Solvency II, Eiopa meeting minutes show

  • 2013: the ERM challenges ahead

    08 January 2013

    Leading consultants and CROs say getting the most out of Solvency II implementation will be a big challenge for 2013, but other aspects of ERM will reappear on the agenda, as will the necessity of keeping ERM at the heart of business. Here is a compilation of responses to the questions InsuranceERM asked experts just before Christmas

  • Regulators and industry carp at IAIS over G-SIIs

    08 January 2013

    Proposals need "substantial refinement", says BaFin

  • PRA consults on powers to put pressure on parent firms

    07 January 2013

    Open for comment until 1 March

  • Dodd-Frank stirs federal action on insurance regulation

    03 January 2013

    As speculation mounts that the Federal Insurance Office will soon release its report on modernising insurance regulation, Gloria Gonzalez investigates how it and the other corollaries of the Dodd-Frank reforms could redraw the US regulatory regime

  • EU and US release convergence plan

    24 December 2012

    Five-year plan includes fully risk-based capital requirements

  • Australia beats Europe on regulatory overhaul

    21 December 2012

    Australia has succeeded where Europe has seemingly failed by implementing new solvency capital regulations for insurers in three years – with relatively few delays. The standards will be implemented on 1 January 2013 and follow a broadly similar approach to Solvency II. Lorna Davies reports