Archive

  • Danish regulator demands insurers report on handling of big data

    15 December 2016

    Insurers must assess boards' abilities and internal controls

  • Direct Line's José Vazquez: navigating the digital world

    15 December 2016

    Direct Line's chief risk officer José Vazquez discusses how his risk team has evolved and how it is organising to respond to threats such as digitalisation, big data and driverless cars, with Christopher Cundy

  • PRA offers few concessions in update to TMTP rules

    15 December 2016

    No automatic recalculations and no benefit from changes in best estimate assumptions

  • Insured losses rise by a third after increase in natural disaster costs

    15 December 2016

    SwissRe research highlights protection gap has grown to $109bn

  • Scor increases contingent capital by €100m

    15 December 2016

    Switches from UBS to BNP Paribas

  • Lloyd's to unveil EU base early next year

    15 December 2016

    Choosing from list of five possible destinations

  • Risky firms may have to contribute more to FSCS

    14 December 2016

    FCA to collect data on product sales to identify riskiest insurers

  • DNB paints "bleak picture" for Dutch insurers

    14 December 2016

    Industry at risk on various fronts, watchdog says

  • CBI insurance chief sets out conditions for Brexit moves to Ireland

    14 December 2016

    "Heart and mind" of the insurer must move, not just token office

  • Amending the Solvency II VA to promote good risk management

    13 December 2016

    Use of Solvency II's volatility adjustment (VA) causes hard-to-explain movements in own funds and perverse incentives for hedging and risk management. In this paper, Richard Plat proposes an alternative approach to solve these issues