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German backbook deals and run-offs - a €150bn asset industry since 2014
01 February 2024Moody's examined 14 deals, completed, pending and scuttled
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Comment - BaFin holds cards (close to its chest) in future of German life-book consolidation
01 February 2024PE part-ownership of Viridium seems to have informed regulator's rejection of Zurich deal
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Comment - Are PE owners facing the end of their life backbook consolidation journey?
31 January 2024After BaFin's move on Zurich and Viridium, the future seems uncertain if 'PE ownership' breaks deals
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Nearly 2,000 European insurers have GAs smaller than in Zurich/Viridium's scuppered deal
31 January 2024BaFin has stopped life backbook deal involving €21bn of assets
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Zurich's German life backbook deal, with €21bn assets, with Virdium falls apart
30 January 2024'Project Sander' was to involve investment assets linked to 724,000 policies, German unit's SFCR said
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Additional regulation for AI decision-making "inevitable", ABI says
29 January 2024Insurers need to be open with regulators about how they are using AI
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Comment - Evergrande fails to live up to its name, but will China's insurers survive its death-knell?
29 January 2024Hong Kong court today told Chinese property developer seeking a stay of its liquidation, 'enough is enough'
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Solvency II UK reforms might make illiquid assets more attractive, but don't expect the Wild West
26 January 2024David Otudeko, head of prudential regulation at the ABI, reminds Fitch audience that any changes would be met by tougher regulation.
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Insurer affiliates among top managers backing ESG shareholder resolutions in 2023
23 January 2024ShareAction report takes aim at world's largest asset managers
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PE backers to stoke US annuity market even as lapse payouts top premiums
23 January 2024AM Best sees new PE- and AM-backed underwriters as fuelling competition