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  • UK's problem with Solvency II isn't EU red tape: it's gold plating

    17 November 2016

    MPs investigating post-Brexit Solvency II reforms should focus on the UK regulator, rather than Brussels bureaucrats, according to insurers. Far from throwing off the shackles of Europe, most firms hope any changes will be minor and phased in slowly. Callum Tanner reports

  • UK regulator to push for disclosure of regulatory returns

    26 October 2016

    PRA chief executive dubs the risk margin "dangerously procyclical"

  • UK firms split on interest rate hedging strategy

    01 September 2016

    L&G has put its economic view on the pedestal, moving away from its rivals and challenging analysts who take Solvency II figures more seriously. Callum Tanner reports

  • Risk margin reform harder after Brexit vote, says Woods

    19 July 2016

    PRA chief says buffer is procyclical and not justified by historical evidence

  • Rule change at PRA as Bulley exits

    07 June 2016

    Andrew Bulley to join Deloitte, David Rule takes on exec director role

  • Woods' promotion puts PRA back on the hunt for insurance chief

    08 April 2016

    Sam Woods will succeed Andrew Bailey as the supervisor's chief executive

  • PRA caps benefit from matching adjustment

    18 January 2016

    "Reverse engineering" to bring parameters back in line with liquidity premium

  • PRA's Woods defends use of internal model yardsticks

    15 January 2016

    'Quantitative framework' needed to inform assessment of the strength of calibrations

  • Life insurers stuck with the riddle of the risk margin

    01 December 2015

    Of all the innovations of Solvency II, the risk margin threatens to be the most painful for UK life insurers. The transitional benefit will provide relief against it on 1 January, but in the long run it may do more harm than good. Hugo Coelho reports

  • How a 100% SCR stopped being sufficient capital

    12 November 2015

    Insurers are holding capital buffers larger than the minimum required under Solvency II, but is it the fault of the rules, the regulators or the market? Hugo Coelho reports