Archive

  • IAIS tells regulators to focus hard on asset-intensive reinsurance risks

    20 November 2025

    Briefing paper lists out potential risks involved in funded re deals

  • Japan insurance trade body responds to IAIS paper on funded re and alternative investing

    04 June 2025

    GIAJ also recommends a definition for 'alternative' consistent with other sectors

  • IAIS plots two-step approach to implementation of Insurance Capital Standard

    28 June 2024

    New technical specification for ICS follows wide-ranging consultation with industry

  • Chart of the Week - As a €21bn deal is scuppered by BaFin, have PE owners run out of road for life book sales?

    02 February 2024

    German regulator's refusal to Zurich and Viridium seems bad news for insurers owned by PE

  • Regulators monitoring insurer derivatives use, IAIS says

    07 December 2023

    Rising interest rates increasing margin call risks on insurer derivative holdings

  • ECB rings further alarm on insurer liquidity risk

    28 November 2023

    Adds fuel to debate on liquidity risk as market anticipates economic downturn

  • Shift to illiquids has heightened risk for US insurers, says Fitch

    28 November 2023

    Rating agency says PE-insurers have most exposure and could face shock when assets revalued

  • IAIS launches second climate risk consultation

    27 November 2023

    Request for comments is open until 23 February 2024

  • Liquidity risk remains one of less understood risks in market, according to IAIS

    15 June 2023

    As supervisors reveal at IAIS global seminar the key asset risks currently under consideration

  • Insurance regulators showing good progress on asset standards, IAIS finds

    04 April 2023

    But liquidity monitoring could be improved in some jurisdictions