Regulation

  • Hong Kong considering future capital-factor incentives for infrastructure investments

    26 April 2024

    Green bond discount, and rejection of time-lag for asset valuations, published by Insurance Authority today

  • Chart of the Week - Hong Kong's RBC rules and their capital charges for CIOs

    26 April 2024

    The risk-factor charges Hong Kong's CIOs will apply under RBC appeared in a long document today, for various asset classes and risk types

  • PRA consulting with insurers on implementation of "sandbox" to test MA eligibility

    25 April 2024

    No consensus yet on what sandbox would look like, BoE says

  • LGIM voted against 452 company boards in 2023

    25 April 2024

    For not meeting environmental expectations, while manager plans strengthen stewardship policy further

  • UK insurers name speed of execution and regulation as hurdles to access renewables

    23 April 2024

    Pre-greenfield development stage projects preferred for investment, AlphaReal survey finds

  • Opacity and growing interconnectedness in PE space, key worry for Bank of England

    22 April 2024

    Nathanaël Benjamin executive director of financial stability strategy and risk at BoE explained

  • Comment - Lapse risk, SFCRs and getting more transparency into Italian insurers

    22 April 2024

    Nine data cells reveal the stress that sent one prominent lifer to the wall

  • Rescuers of Eurovita divulge details of IVASS' bail-out plan in SFCRs

    22 April 2024

    Lifer faced redemption and solvency pressure before rivals took on assets, and policies

  • Chart of the Week - Uniform SCR-breakdown for IM users becomes possible, for non-UK Insurers, at least...

    19 April 2024

    A new EIOPA reporting template has made it possible to see uniform breakdown of IM and PIM users' Solvency II risk modules

  • Comment: EIOPA fires its own starting gun on actually implementing Solvency II reform

    18 April 2024

    Small yet pivotal parts of SFCRs for non-UK firms have been amended, with significantly better transparency one result

  • Comparable SCR data appears for internal model users in Europe, from revised reporting requirements

    18 April 2024

    New and amended Solvency II data templates are now being published by non-UK internal model users

  • SFCRs shine light on German legacy life books, and investments, of Zurich and AXA

    16 April 2024

    Groups have planned, with mixed success, to sell the back-books to consolidators Viridium and Athora, respectively

  • Aviva reveals make-up of MA investment portfolio

    16 April 2024

    MA assets now represent about 42% of general account

  • Insurance Risk Data collecting key data and reports from breadth and width of Europe's insurance industry

    12 April 2024

    Undertakings have published their annual solvency filings for 2023

  • Private debt at the forefront of insurers' continued advance into private markets

    10 April 2024

    According to global insurance survey by Mercer and Oliver Wyman