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News
Eiopa catalogues insurer failures and near misses
Deficiencies in staff and governance systems seen as the most common causes of trouble at insurers
Allianz Suisse chooses Moody's Analytics ESG
Supports modelling for Swiss Solvency Test
PRA sets out MA concerns and future projects
Letter to chief actuaries says also discusses internal models, stress testing and fundamental spread
UK asks EU for different third-party equivalence regime after Brexit
British government proposes an “enhanced” version due to markets’ interconnectedness
Munich Re defends coal practice
Firm has no threshold for coal underwriting but assesses all risks
Swiss Re sets thermal coal re/insurance threshold
Generali increases Indian presence
Property data insurtech raises $17m in funding
Jordanian regulations likely to toughen up
Claims payments on the rise in OECD countries
Abu Dhabi sovereign fund takes stake in PIC
Axa's Christian Thimann joins Apollo-backed insurer
Analysis
NN's Jan-Hendrik Erasmus: finding the win-win in insurtech
NN Group has been an eager participant in the insurtech revolution. Chief risk officer and global IT leader Jan-Hendrik Erasmus tells David Walker how the Dutch insurer's tech strategy has evolved
German actuaries tell Eiopa: "Stick to your remit"
DAV vice-president Guido Bader talks to David Walker about how the country's actuaries are concerned by Eiopa's new ideas for Solvency II – and the lack of testing around them
IFRS 17 earnings recognition: challenges, opportunities and innovations
Luca Tres and Adam Robinson discuss IFRS 17 and its earning recognition criteria from a capital markets and insurance practitioner's perspective, and consider the challenges and the opportunities this presents
SFCRs: "We're not sure any policyholders read them"
Insurers say their solvency and financial condition reports (SFCRs) are barely read by customers, so how should they evolve to better suit their audience? Christopher Cundy reports on this and other views and experiences with the public Solvency II document
Raj Singh: from CRO to insurtech investor
Standard Life's former chief risk officer talks to Christopher Cundy about his decision to join the ranks of the insurance disruptors and how his new venture – Kasko2Go – is facing up to the challenge
Emerging risks: cyber still top, environment rising
Max Rudolph discusses the findings of the North American actuarial societies' 11th annual survey of emerging risks with Christopher Cundy
