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Global capital standard to be implemented in 2019
09 October 2013IAIS says development will be complete by end of 2016
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FSB widens scope of proposed resolution regime
21 August 2013The Financial Stability Board's consultation on applying the key attributes of resolution regimes to non-banks implies an extension to the range of insurers under scrutiny, as well as to the powers available to supervisors, as InsuranceERM explains
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Time to engage with recovery and resolution planning
07 August 2013The blueprints for recovery and resolution planning are still in development, but insurers of significance to both the global and domestic markets would do well to pay attention now, as David Strachan explains
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Nine global systemically important insurers named
19 July 2013The Financial Stability Board's designation of systemically risky insurers has brought howls of protest from the industry, but the impact on the nine firms is not easy to gauge. Christopher Cundy reports
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Reinsurers to wait another year for G-SII status
27 June 2013Insurers to be named next month
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US has more reservations about Solvency II than a year ago
21 June 2013The federal threat to the US system of state-based insurance supervision is waning, according to Jim Donelon and Ben Nelson, the president and CEO of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, but international pressure for reform is an ever-present danger. In a Q&A with InsuranceERM, the new officials also discuss progress on reinsurance collateral, the ORSA and principles-based reserving
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NAIC CEO Nelson criticises IAIS and ComFrame
14 June 2013Tells Congress international regulatory approaches are too rigid
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AIG and Prudential Financial named "systemically important" by US
04 June 2013Firms will be subject to stricter supervision and regulation
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Asian solvency reforms - part 1
10 May 2013Asian insurance markets have been growing fast, in terms of both their size and sophistication, and national supervisors are responding to the international pressure to improve their prudential regulatory regimes. Developments in Hong Kong, China and Singapore are covered in this first part
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On the road to common standards for group capital
24 April 2013A recent Geneva Association report revealed some surprises in the capital management of global insurance groups - and a reluctance to rush towards global standards. Co-author Kathrin Hoppe explains to Christopher Cundy