Capital

  • BoE threatens to restrict funded reinsurance deals in warning to UK life insurers

    26 July 2024

    Gareth Truran warns of rapid build-up of risks in the sector

  • Life and annuity reinsurer Martello Re raises $1.3bn in second financing round

    23 July 2024
  • UK's "dynamic" general insurance stress test will assess real-time reactions to events

    15 July 2024

    Firms will be handed a sequence of stresses over three weeks in May 2025

  • Wefox shareholders inject €25m amid plans to shed carrier and continue as distributor

    01 July 2024

    German non-life retail insurer has been battling to avoid insolvency

  • 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

  • What do capital model validators and social media influencers have in common?

    28 June 2024

    Wendy Kriz Evans identified the commonalities during LCP's annual capital seminar

  • IAG seals new reinsurance deals in bid to limit natcat losses, smooth earnings and cut capital bill

    28 June 2024

    The firm is expecting a A$350m lower capital requirement

  • ASR eyes €8bn of Dutch PRT business in next four years

    27 June 2024

    Estimates 40pp increase in solvency ratio from measures including internal model

  • Prudential to return $2bn of capital after rating agencies clarify IFRS 17 position

    24 June 2024

    Moody's confirms half of CSM included in leverage ratio

  • R&Q turns to alternative transaction structure as it looks to seal Accredited sale

    19 June 2024

    Files for provisional liquidation and suspends trading of shares

  • Solvency UK reform expected to impact insurers' model governance most

    18 June 2024

    Results from Grant Thornton's 2024 general insurance capital modelling survey

  • EU's Solvency II reforms could free up to €80bn of capital, S&P estimates

    12 June 2024

    Insurance sector's solvency ratios to benefit by up to 25 percentage points in aggregate

  • L&G slims down to three divisions

    12 June 2024

    CEO António Simões announces strategy for "simpler, more synergistic and capital light" group

  • Guy Carpenter launches capital and advisory group

    11 June 2024
  • Eiopa reveals near-€500bn growth in industry eligible own funds under Solvency II

    07 June 2024

    Rate of growth is almost double expansion of capital requirement since Q3 2016