Archive

  • GDPR data requests - a flood or a trickle?

    17 July 2018

    The EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was introduced on 25 May with warnings that insurers would be inundated with customers requesting details of the personal data held on them. Now, almost eight weeks later, have these requests materialised? Paul Walsh investigates

  • Achmea, ASR and NN publish Solvency II reports early

    25 April 2018

    First Swiss reports also emerge

  • SFCRs: delivering the goods in round two

    13 February 2018

    An early financial year-end makes life and health insurer Vitality one of the first major EU insurers to deliver its annual solvency and financial condition report. David Walker discusses what's changed and how other underwriters may evolve their SFCRs in the second year of reporting

  • Insurers struggle to interpret GDPR

    12 September 2017

    The upcoming EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) applies to all companies with personal records, but there are certain aspects insurers are finding particularly difficult. Cintia Cheong reports

  • 19 May will be D-Day for insurers' Solvency II reporting

    12 May 2017

    Europe's underwriters delaying publishing documents until last minute

  • Vitality appoints group chief risk officer

    04 May 2017

    Justin Skinner replaces Nigel Allman

  • Telling the solvency story

    30 March 2017

    The Solvency II solvency and financial condition report (SFCR) is causing consternation among insurers. How do participants balance the requirements of disclosure with confidentiality, or interpret this most loose fitting of regulatory diktats? With the first set of reports already published, the answer seems to be, not very happily. Sarfraz Thind reports