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  • Tokio Marine on the challenges of international expansion

    16 January 2024

    A stagnating domestic economy and entrenched markets have led Japan's insurers overseas in search of growth. Tokio Marine's internationally-experienced head of risk, Yoshihiro Matsuzaki, tells Sarfraz Thind how he is managing the risks of this new world

  • Thabile Nyaba: tackling poverty, climate risk and diversity in South Africa

    09 January 2024

    Old Mutual Insure's chief risk and sustainability officer explains how poverty, climate risk and geopolitics are impacting South Africa's insurance market. Nevertheless, she says there are many opportunities for insurers. Ronan McCaughey writes

  • Regulating AI is becoming a minefield for insurers and watchdogs

    29 December 2023

    Legislators and regulators are taking steps towards policing the use of artificial intelligence (AI), but insurers will face a variety of frameworks and the challenges are plentiful. Paul Walsh reports

  • IMF takes a shot at private equity-backed insurers

    21 December 2023

    Contagion, illiquidity risk and regulatory arbitrage... the International Monetary Fund has this week raised concerns over PE-owned insurance and advised regulators to talk more about the risks. Sarfraz Thind reports

  • Eiopa's Fausto Parente: we are not creating reinsurance barriers

    07 December 2023

    The executive director of the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (Eiopa) talks to Paul Walsh about the authority's approach to reinsurance supervision, lapse risk and concerns with current EU developments

  • MAS's Daniel Wang on Singapore's insurance challenge

    04 December 2023

    The head of the insurance department at the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) talks to Sarfraz Thind about tackling global risks and how the country is leveraging its climate expertise to shine on the world stage

  • Frustrations with EU's regulatory approach emerge at Eiopa event

    24 November 2023

    Concerns over regulatory and supervisory issues - and with the EU itself - were prominent during the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority's annual conference, as Paul Walsh reports

  • Backtesting the Solvency II SCR: surprising findings and risk management implications

    22 November 2023

    Ralf Korn and Gerhard Stahl discuss their novel investigation into the quality of Solvency II capital models and reveal a simple but powerful method for challenging model complexity

  • NN Japan's CRO on his AI adventure

    20 November 2023

    Herman Gayle has a particular passion for AI, which he has been pushing to develop since he joined the firm five years ago. Such is his enthusiasm that he even arranges his holidays with it. Sarfraz Thind reports

  • IAIS 2023: Ariizumi and Saporta talk ICS, AI and climate

    14 November 2023

    The International Association of Insurance Supervisors (IAIS) has seen a change at the top with Japan's Shigeru Ariizumi replacing Vicky Saporta as executive committee chair. The two gave an interview to Sarfraz Thind at the organisation's annual conference in Tokyo