Archive

• Eiopa urges insurers to temporarily suspend dividend payments

  03 April 2020

  This approach should be reviewed until Covid-19 impact is clearer

• Regulators take further actions to ease pressure from coronavirus

  23 March 2020

  From Germany to Australia, watchdogs have rolled back requirements on insurance industry

• BaFin hit by coronavirus

  18 March 2020

  German regulator assembles internal taskforce and institutes remote working

• BaFin lays down the law on Solvency II reporting

  06 December 2019

  German regulator issues 90-page document spelling out requirements and warnings

• BaFin predicts "overwhelming majority" of life sales with flexible guarantees

  13 November 2019

  Lower promises only cut overall burden slowly, BaFin adds

• German trade bodies criticise BaFin over reporting, proportionality

  11 November 2019

  Regulator replies existing measures to ease burden are appropriate

• BaFin raises supervision challenges of capital modelling with AI

  21 October 2019

  Question raised whether to supervise data providers

• German life insurers relish €4.5bn-plus saving on ZZR contributions

  14 May 2019

  The revised methodology for calculating Germany's special interest rate reserves is saving billions for the country's life insurers. David Walker reports

• BaFin spells out its Solvency II review wish-list

  07 May 2019

  Negative rate modelling and investment relief for life insurers top regulator's list

• BaFin clears way for Generali's German life unit sale

  09 April 2019

  Generali is looking to sell its German life business to run-off experts Viridium