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  • Five UK/EU insurers ended 2024 with SCR ratios less than 110%

    25 July 2025

    Regulatory intervention, restructuring and market risks hit European firms

  • Italian life firms continued reinsuring lapse risk in 2024, SFCRs say

    29 May 2025

    Poste Vita's programme had a 41 percentage point effect on its solvency ratio

  • Aviva's profit climbs 20% as sales rise across the board

    27 February 2025

    UK insurer wrote £7.8bn of bulk annuities with better IRR than before

  • Spain's crop insurers add to claims staff, and make donations, to help flood-hit farmers

    11 November 2024

    More than 10,000 farmers affected by October storms

  • Solvency data reveals eight Italian life firms' lapses outweighed their premiums in 2023

    11 October 2024

    Sector's total lapses were worth 52% of its gross written premium

  • Campaigners renew criticism of Lloyd's fossil fuel coverage

    09 October 2024

    Reclaim Finance report identifies leaders and laggards among 51 managing agents

  • Aviva returns to Lloyd's market with £242m Probitas deal

    04 March 2024

    The UK insurer said the Lloyd's market represents a "major source of untapped growth"

  • Probitas syndicate pulls out of Adani cover

    06 July 2023

    Insurance actuaries reveal also helping to fight further coalpits in Australia

  • Mass policy surrenders remain a blight on Europe's life insurers

    20 June 2023

    But reinsurers are stepping in to help manage lapse risk, and the EU's insurance chief is sanguine about the threat, as Christopher Cundy and Joshua Geer report

  • M&A on cards in Indonesia after rise in minimum capital requirement

    20 June 2023

    Stricter standard will pressure capital-strapped smaller firms, GlobalData expects