Archive

  • EU consumers need easy access to investment and protection

    06 November 2024

    Giancarlo Bosser urges European lawmakers involved in the Retail Investment Strategy to develop a more consumer-centric approach to the process of buying insurance-based products

  • A frontline perspective: the impact of war on Ukraine's insurance market

    28 October 2024

    Denis Yastreb explains how the Ukrainian insurance sector has responded in the face of Russia's invasion and continuing occupation

  • Time to adopt ICS, conclude AM comparable

    14 October 2024

    The deadline to adopt the Insurance Capital Standard is fast approaching and a crucial decision on comparability with the US Aggregation Method awaits. ACLI's Mariana Gomez-Vock argues it is time for supervisors to resolve their differences

  • The future for funded reinsurance remains bright

    08 October 2024

    Funded reinsurance has been the subject of increased regulatory scrutiny in the UK and US over the last 18 months, but experts believe it will remain part of insurers' risk and capital management toolkit. Ronan McCaughey writes

  • Delivering value for money is about more than benchmarks

    09 September 2024

    European policymakers' initiatives on value-for-money metrics may end with consumers not getting the products that best meet their needs, argues Pablo Pernía Martin

  • Europe's climate resilience hinges on insurance and public-private cooperation

    03 September 2024

    The European Commission's Climate Resilience Dialogue has put insurance, and its greater cooperation with public authorities, at the heart of proposals to improve the bloc's resilience to climate change. Joshua Geer reports

  • Europe's sustainability reporting: lessons learned, challenges and looking ahead

    29 July 2024

    Insurance Europe's Philippe Angelis summarises the EU's patchwork of sustainability reporting rules and how they could be improved to create a consistent and cost-efficient framework for insurers

  • European insurers call for change in Solvency II's supplemental reforms

    23 July 2024

    The European Commission's proposals for the Level 2 text of Solvency II need to be revised, according to Insurance Europe. Christopher Cundy and Joshua Geer report

  • The EU Taxonomy makes insurers look bad at sustainability - but is it fair?

    16 July 2024

    In their first year of reporting, several major insurers have disclosed that none of their activities qualify as sustainable. Joshua Geer investigates whether the insurers or the EU Taxonomy framework is at fault

  • As Europe's political wheels turn, insurers set out their demands

    11 July 2024

    With the EU entering a new legislative cycle, Joshua Geer hears from Insurance Europe's Olav Jones about the priorities for the insurance sector