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  • Calls grow for deeper supervisory unity as Eiopa marks 15 years

    10 February 2026

    The EU's insurance authority celebrated its first 15 years at its conference last month, though most of the debate was about what comes next. Joshua Geer reports

  • Former Eiopa chair says "egos" are blocking centralised EU insurance supervision

    30 January 2026

    Gabriel Bernardino delivers impassioned call for radical reform at Eiopa anniversary event

  • A decade of Solvency II: Gabriel Bernardino

    15 January 2026

    How we progressed from "silent revolution" to a new strategic horizon

  • Gabriel Bernardino takes helm at Portuguese insurance and pensions regulator

    29 July 2025

    Margarida Corrêa de Aguiar is vacating the role after her six-year term

  • Maurice Perkins: Transamerica's transatlantic negotiator

    26 August 2021

    Transamerica's global head of government and policy affairs talks to Sarfraz Thind about US and international insurance regulation, Biden's tax reforms and the cultural differences that keep his job interesting

  • COMMENT: Obrigado, Gabriel

    01 March 2021

    Christopher Cundy shares his thoughts on the end of Gabriel Bernardino's term at Eiopa

  • Insurance protection gaps: getting over the blame game

    09 February 2021

    Politicians and civil society tend to blame insurers for widening protection gaps. But insurers say governments and regulators must share responsibility. So what can be done to solve what all regard as a growing problem? Christopher Cundy reports from Eiopa's 10th anniversary conference

  • Eiopa's Bernardino calls for centralised supervision and disclosure revolution

    04 February 2021

    Insurers agree on need for better consumer disclosures, but reject EU-wide supervisor idea

  • Gabriel Bernardino on four important Solvency II reforms

    22 December 2020

    The chair of the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority talks to Christopher Cundy about the main proposals to amend Solvency II and what they hope to achieve

  • Gabriel Bernardino: Eiopa is adjusting its Solvency II proposals

    03 December 2020

    Eiopa chair hints at dampening mechanism for low interest rate environment