Archive

  • Insurers and regulators reveal attitudes towards Solvency II review

    29 January 2020

    European Commission's conference hears call for no increase in capital requirements

  • Admiral bails out of Spanish price comparison JV

    24 December 2019

    Antitrust clearance taking too long

  • IFRS 17: on the verge of another delay?

    25 September 2019

    Important EU stakeholders are calling for the insurance contracts accounting standard to be delayed once more. Cintia Cheong reports

  • The reinsurance business: time to bounce back?

    05 September 2019

    Reinsurance pricing has improved but analysts believe headwinds remain. Ahead of the Rendez-Vous de Septembre in Monte Carlo, Cintia Cheong compares the views of credit rating agencies on the global market outlook

  • Zurich commits to insure controversial Trans Mountain pipeline

    08 August 2019

    Activists urge insurers to drop the Canadian oil sands pipeline project

  • Mapfre seals giant Chinese infrastructure partnership

    09 July 2019

    The Spanish insurer will collaborate with China Re on the Chinese Belt and Road Initiative

  • Uniqa stops insuring new coal business

    15 March 2019

    Climate activist group Unfriend Coal has welcomed Uniqa's move, but said more can be done

  • Mapfre's new coal underwriting policy leaves environmentalists to question more

    12 March 2019

    Spanish insurer will stop insuring new coal projects

  • Global reinsurance capital dips 2% in Q3 2018

    11 January 2019

    Aon outlook says excess reinsurance capacity continues to exist

  • Insurers ruling out Carmichael coal coverage listed

    21 December 2018

    Five re/insurers go public with clear refusal to cover Carmichael coal mine in Australia