Archive

  • Plan for capital squeeze after severe loss event, PRA tells general insurers

    21 September 2016

    Regulator fears market-turning event could coincide with financial turmoil

  • EU-US talks on covered agreement resume

    21 September 2016

    Pressure on negotiators mounts as firms face increasing barriers to do business

  • PRA announces plan to prevent model drift

    21 September 2016

    Regulator will benchmark models against other Solvency II measures

  • EU passporting loss would hurt 220 UK insurers

    20 September 2016

    FCA reveals that 726 European insurers rely on facility to do business in Britain

  • Germany and Italy see largest second wave of Solvency II applications

    20 September 2016

    InsuranceERM survey reveals many insurers are still adjusting to the new regulatory regime

  • Czech Republic transposes Solvency II

    20 September 2016

    Signed into law by Czech President on 6 September

  • European supervisors change tack on negative interest rate risk

    20 September 2016

    Insurers are being asked to modify internal models as negative yields become the new normal, but the approach varies by country and company. Hugo Coelho reports

  • Insurers face up to $400m payout from Hurricane Hermine

    20 September 2016

    60-70% of total insured loss comes from residential claims

  • UK firms remove risk margin from Orsa

    20 September 2016

    Own view in pillar 2 reduces margin compared to pillar 1

  • Lloyd's insurers to adopt hurricane model on Oasis

    19 September 2016

    Ten managing agents get shared access to HurLoss