Archive

  • Countries to begin assessing Insurance Capital Standard implementation in 2026 - UPDATED

    28 June 2024

    Latest version of ICS published ahead of finalisation later this year

  • Hong Kong regulator agrees to RBC concessions after industry consultation

    26 April 2024

    But Insurance Authority rebuffs requests for change to capital amounts and actuarial appointments

  • "Resilient" ICS will pass despite obstacles

    25 April 2024

    But IAIS will have to satisfy US demands to get Insurance Capital Standard done, say ex-regulators

  • Brighthouse's RBC ratio rises after new hedging valuation rules

    13 February 2024

    US life insurer implemented updates to VM-21 in Q4 2023

  • Insurance Risk & Capital Bermuda - three weeks to go!

    04 October 2023

    Event takes place at Rosewood Bermuda hotel on 25 October

  • Sun Life Hong Kong becomes latest early adopter of Hong Kong's RBC regime

    06 September 2023

    The insurer joins AIA, Prudential and FWD in adopting the rules

  • South Korea's insurers to assess strategies following K-ICS implementation

    01 September 2023

    Less than half of firms using transitional measures to ease introduction of capital rules

  • RGA completes £5bn UK longevity swap, but no US PRT, in Q2

    08 August 2023

    US life and health reinsurer also closes deal with domestic Japanese insurer

  • FWD reveals key business metrics in flotation document

    13 March 2023

    Deemed hospitalisation sent Japan Covid claims rocketing in 2022

  • China's industry practitioners praise CBIRC as dissolution flagged

    10 March 2023

    Regulator's duties to be subsumed into larger body