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  • IAIS outlines further details of systemic risk supervision plan

    17 January 2019

    Proposed intervention powers criticised by industry as “broad and vague”

  • Concerns raised about IAIS paper on insurers' recovery planning

    16 January 2019

    GFIA welcomes elements of the paper, but is also critical

  • IAIS drops G-SII designation in systemic risk proposal

    14 November 2018

    New framework will look at entity and activity-based approaches

  • IAIS Luxembourg: AI and big data require crucial risk management changes, experts warn

    09 November 2018

    Insurers need to upgrade their risk management operations to cope with technologies

  • IAIS gears up for a global supervisory regime

    04 September 2018

    Since the International Association of Insurance Supervisors introduced the Insurance Capital Standard in 2016, the industry and some supervisors have pushed for fundamental changes in a number of areas. With a new consultation package, the IAIS aspires to square the circle. Aggelos Andreou reports

  • Supervisors inconsistent in monitoring climate risk

    14 August 2018

    Supervisors' varying levels of familiarity with climate risk requires the establishment of a global framework for measuring and managing those risks, according to the IAIS and the UN SIF.

  • IAIS reveals thinking on activities-based approach to systemic risk

    08 December 2017

    Preliminary consultation paper suggests focus should be on insurers' liquidity and macroeconomic risks

  • IAIS faces fresh debate on systemic risk – and clash on capital standard

    31 October 2017

    The International Association of Insurance Supervisors meeting in Kuala Lumpur this week comes amid a renewed debate about systemic risk in insurers and big questions about the deadlines for developing a global capital standard. Christopher Cundy reports

  • US Treasury rejects Sifi methodology for insurers

    27 October 2017

    Prudential Financial and MetLife are given a huge boost by latest Treasury report, which favours an activities-based approach over the entity-based systemic risk evaluations

  • IAIS urged to postpone ICP 24 review over systemic risk concerns

    02 October 2017

    Wait until work of Systemic Risk Assessment Task Force is concluded, says Insurance Europe