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  • Tianjin explosion to cost insurers more than $1bn

    18 August 2015

    Fitch says accident will be material for Chinese firms

  • Systemic risk buffer may miss the target

    21 July 2015

    The IAIS has unveiled a formula to calculate the high-loss absorbency for global systemically important insurers. The industry claims the requirement is set too high and fears it will be poorly targeted. Hugo Coelho reports

  • HLA to bite Axa and Prudential hardest

    03 July 2015

    Heightened capital requirements for systemic insurers will vary, says Fitch

  • FSB puts off designation of systemic reinsurers until 2016

    06 November 2014

    IAIS ordered to revise assessment methodology

  • Ping An sees solvency margin rise to 186.6%

    20 August 2014

    Benefits from first-half bond issues

  • Axa's de Mailly Nesle: CROs need to be controversial and constructive

    16 May 2014

    Chief risk officers should be the ones raising challenges in any decision-making process, says Axa's group CRO Alban de Mailly Nesle. But they also need to avoid being too negative, he tells Lorna Davies.

  • The Gherkin goes into receivership

    25 April 2014

    Major tenant Swiss Re sold building in 2007

  • Nine global systemically important insurers named

    19 July 2013

    The Financial Stability Board's designation of systemically risky insurers has brought howls of protest from the industry, but the impact on the nine firms is not easy to gauge. Christopher Cundy reports