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  • IAIS ploughs on with allowing US capital metrics into ICS regime

    04 May 2021

    No changes to draft definitions of comparability following a consultation

  • IAIS confirms five Swiss IAIGs

    26 March 2021

    There are 48 IAIGs globally, 45 of which have been revealed

  • Scor declines to participate in ICS monitoring period

    10 March 2021

    Thirty-nine insurers took part in the first year of the process, despite the pandemic

  • Insurance protection gaps: getting over the blame game

    09 February 2021

    Politicians and civil society tend to blame insurers for widening protection gaps. But insurers say governments and regulators must share responsibility. So what can be done to solve what all regard as a growing problem? Christopher Cundy reports from Eiopa's 10th anniversary conference

  • Avoid prescriptive supervision of climate change risk, say European insurers

    14 January 2021

    Insurance Europe responds to IAIS's consultation

  • Insurance Europe warns against imposing climate risk scenarios in Orsas

    06 January 2021

    European stress testing may be a better tool, says the trade body

  • ICS capital calculations: onerous, uncertain, but growing in relevance

    14 December 2020

    The global Insurance Capital Standard (ICS) requires yet more modelling work for insurers and some of its rules for calculating capital are vague. It's currently a low priority for insurers and investors, but UK firms in particular should watch closely. Christopher Cundy reports

  • IAIS reveals four Japanese insurers as internationally active insurance groups

    09 December 2020

    Dai-Ichi Life, MS&AD Insurance Group, Sompo and Tokio Marine have been named

  • IAIS considers how to integrate diversity into its work

    04 December 2020

    Annual conference touches on ways to address race and discrimination in insurance

  • Expect insurers to integrate climate change in Orsa, IAIS tells supervisors

    14 October 2020

    IAIS launches consultation on supervision of insurers' climate-related risks