Archive

  • Germany reveals profits from pandemic trade credit insurance programme

    09 December 2021

    Support scheme for trade underwriters ran until June 2021

  • German insurers quadruple sales of flood and rain insurance

    22 November 2021

    GDV has proposed various measures to protect more properties after Bernd

  • GDV predicts 6% growth among Germany's life insurers in 2021

    25 October 2021

    Retirement-focused policies are one-fifth of sales at present

  • Swiss Re puts its Europe flood bill at $520m

    05 October 2021

    GDV preparing blueprint to increase natcat property cover

  • Germany plots the transit from transitionals

    29 September 2021

    Some life insurers rely on Solvency II's transitional measures to ensure their continued existence. But paradoxically, that does not mean they will fail without them, as David Walker explains

  • European Commission to release €90bn of capital in Solvency II reform plans

    22 September 2021

    Greens criticise proposals for having "more holes than Swiss cheese"

  • Revise scope for IFRS 17 and 9 mismatch fix, say European insurers

    22 September 2021

    Insurance Europe also asks IASB to clarify disclosure requirements

  • Prioritise IFRS 17 and 9, European insurers tell IASB

    21 September 2021

    Insurance Europe responds to IASB's five-year plan

  • BaFin has 15 life firms under close supervision as low interest rates bite

    13 September 2021

    Average solvency ratio for German life firms is improving, according to GDV

  • Gothaer expects up to €450m in claims from flood losses

    24 August 2021

    German insurers have already advanced €700m to customers