Archive

  • Tallying the UK regulatory initiatives impacting insurers

    14 April 2025

    From Solvency II to sustainability disclosures, the PRA and FCA are managing over 20 initiatives impacting insurers. Joshua Geer breaks down the pressure points

  • Insurance-associated emissions: diverging approaches on responsibility and readiness

    10 April 2025

    As insurers confront the call to count their underwriting-related emissions, leaders reveal a sector caught between ambition, uncertainty and growing scrutiny, as Joshua Geer reports

  • US RBC modernisation: what to expect from the capital rule review

    08 April 2025

    US regulators have initiated a reappraisal of the Risk-Based Capital rules and how future reforms should be made. Sarfraz Thind and Christopher Cundy report

  • GDV's Jörg Asmussen: "focus on growth and making Germany more competitive"

    26 March 2025

    Jörg Asmussen, chief executive officer and member of the executive board of the German Insurance Association (GDV), speaks with Martin Assmann about the industry's priorities for the new government and the future of European regulatory frameworks

  • Zurich Insurance's new era of catastrophe modelling

    24 March 2025

    Iwan Stalder, head of group accumulation management, tells Martin Assmann how in-house models and AI are helping the Swiss group to better understand its catastrophic risk exposures

  • Eiopa backs Omnibus sustainability package, but Solvency II bumps remain

    14 March 2025

    The European Commission's Omnibus package - which aims to simplify corporate sustainability reporting - was initially welcomed by insurers last month. However, the proposals are also creating uncertainty and division. Joshua Geer reports.

  • U-turn from UK regulators on proposed diversity and inclusion rules

    12 March 2025

    Ronan McCaughey investigates the reasons behind the decision to cease work on D&I regulation and gauges reaction from the British insurance industry

  • BaFin's Julia Wiens: "Supervisory convergence must not become an end in itself"

    11 March 2025

    Germany's top insurance supervisor tells Sarfraz Thind about her priorities and thoughts on topics such as life consolidation, climate change and Europe's approach to oversight

  • Bermuda and Cayman: notes from two small islands

    04 March 2025

    Both are dream locations in which to do business and life re/insurers are flocking to the Cayman Islands and Bermuda in their droves. But what does it take to set up on an island? Anam Khan talks to Sarfraz Thind about the challenges and advantages of both

  • Insurers on board with EU's "Omnibus" sustainability reporting shake-up

    26 February 2025

    Europe's insurers have backed the Commission's reform proposals but call for swift implementation and further simplifications. Joshua Geer reports