Archive

  • Regulators' 2024 priorities: Germany, France, Belgium, the Netherlands

    31 January 2024

    Insurance regulators explain why third-party IT risk, credit risk, sustainability and managing silent cyber coverage will be among their top concerns this year. Ronan McCaughey reports

  • Ageas to get new group CRO from June

    23 January 2024

    Emmanuel Van Grimbergen to take on reinsurance/investment role

  • AI needs more regulation, say IAIS members

    16 June 2023

    But overregulation must be watched, says NAIC's Beth Dwyer

  • Belgium's insurance regulator targets liquidity and credit risk in 2023

    25 January 2023

    Monitoring the macro-environment's impact on insurers will also be a core focus

  • Belgian regulator quantifies effect of inflation on solvency coverage

    28 June 2022

    NBB finds failings in standard formula treatment of inflation shocks

  • Intégrale's minimum solvency coverage hit just 45% in June

    20 August 2021

    Belgian life firm faced trouble with majority shareholder Nethys through 2020

  • Belgian regulator challenges Lloyd's about Brussels platform

    08 April 2021

    The focus is understood to be if managing agents' activities constitute 'distribution'

  • Belgian regulator urges insurers to suspend dividends until 2021

    31 July 2020

    France made similar announcement this week

  • Solving Solvency II's proportionality riddle

    06 April 2018

    Smaller insurers have long complained about the burden of complying with Solvency II, but balancing proportionality with proper supervision continues to be debated. Aggelos Andreou reports

  • 'Liability-free' is not 'risk-free' for unit-linked sales, warns Belgian watchdog

    02 October 2017

    Research paper from the regulator sizes insurers' exposure to shadow banks