IFRS 17: still waiting for disclosures
The IFRS 17 accounting standard is due to be implemented in five months' time, but many insurers are leaving it until the eleventh hour to reveal what impact the transition will have on their financial metrics. Christopher Cundy and Paul Walsh report
Bigger does not mean better for insurers
Expanding an insurance business in good times typically meant growing profits. In today's tougher economic environment, Europe's largest insurers are being much more prudent about spending capital, and are only considering very careful expansion, as David Walker writes
Full complexity of Europe's insurance groups revealed
Despite Amanda Blanc's simplification drive, Aviva remains the UK's most complex insurer
Crédit Agricole Assurances supports BI customers during Covid-19
It was part of a "mutual and voluntary support scheme" for customers
Credit Agricole Assurances places €1bn of Tier 2 debt
Debt issue to boost CAA's solvency ratio, refinance debt and broaden funding base
La Parisienne plans UK operation to counter Brexit
Markel International completes transferring business to Germany, for same reason
Solvency II reporting: most mistakes found in crucial solvency ratios
Missing and imprecise figures not ironed out in second year, Insurance Risk Data research finds
Crédit Agricole to add to P&C and specialist risk after €1bn bond issue
Tier 2 debt to improve quality of eligible own funds
Insurers use home languages for their SFCRs - but Latin was a mistake
Two published solvency and financial condition reports (SFCRs) contained dummy text in Latin