Archive

  • Chart of the Week - Academics urge banks to join insurers on climate change threat

    27 December 2024

    Stakeholders in the insurance industry increasingly see collaboration with other stakeholders in countries' property stock as vital, to face down climate change

  • Chart of the Week: The real-world effects of the media's pessimism about climate change

    20 December 2024

    Academics find economic and financial repercussions from downbeat media covering global warming

  • French lifers sigh in relief as products still beat the Livret A alternative

    14 August 2024

    But life and group policies' revaluation rates in 2023 lagged both OATs and elevated inflation

  • French regulator tightens screws on insurers and greenwashing risk

    24 June 2024

    Retail investment products form the focus on group organised by the ACPR and AMF

  • French insurers not shifting investments despite "significant" climate exposure in businesses

    24 May 2024

    ACPR has revealed results of second climate stress test

  • A 41% jump in unit-linked lapses drives net outflows from French lifers

    16 May 2024

    Surrender payments were double the claims payments made by French life firms last year

  • French regulator highlights lack of consistency and granularity in insurers' climate disclosures

    22 January 2024

    The majority of insurers limit their Paris Agreement alignment strategy to a policy of exclusion, ACPR adds

  • Chart of the Week - Breakdown of market risk SCR of AEMA group subsidiaries, 2022 (%)

    28 July 2023

    A 'group market risk SCR' can mask very divergent risk-taking at subsidiaries

  • Traditional risk management fails for timing transition investments, ACPR says

    22 February 2023

    Regulator's research examines when best to buy/sell biomass and coal assets

  • French regulator appoints new secretary general

    20 December 2022

    Nathalie Aufauvre takes the position after nearly four decades at the Banque de France