Regulation

  • NAIC task force looks a clarifying principles of RBC process

    12 December 2025

    Task force members warn against aping scope of Europe's Solvency II

  • Solvency II changes a "meaningful step" for securitised assets' allure, S&P says

    11 December 2025

    Though ratings agency warns changes are unlikely to have a "significant impact" on insurers' appetites

  • Investment Accelerator could prompt £10bn extra investment in UK over 10 years, L&G report finds

    11 December 2025

    Study with Oxford Economics also calls for 'whole projects' reform for Solvency UK

  • NAIC takes aim at insurer investment subsidiaries

    10 December 2025

    As NAIC president takes aim at criticism of states' regulators' measures around evolving investment structures

  • Expect NAIC to shift gears on RBC reform in 2026, Wellington Management says

    09 December 2025

    Work on covariance analysis also expected to reach a conclusion

  • PRA publishes revised set of climate risk rules for insurers

    04 December 2025

    Clarifications made on six-month review process and credit ratings

  • BoE zeroes in on private market risks to insurers and UK financial system

    02 December 2025

    Highlights overreliance on credit rating agencies in place of rigorous due diligence

  • Fitch details US alt manager tie-up and private credit risk facing European insurers

    21 November 2025

    Ratings agency highlights "increased structural complexity and interconnectedness" of asset class

  • Former New China Life chair sentenced to death

    21 November 2025

    Shandong court later suspends Li Quan's capital punishment for bribery

  • 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

  • Chart of the Week - Who owns Europe's insurance industry?

    14 November 2025

    Insurance Risk Data has conducted granular analysis of ownership for 1,782 European insurance undertakings

  • Launch of MA investment accelerator to support insurers being more "dynamic", Aberdeen Investments says

    10 November 2025

    Though concerns remain that exposure cap may limit usability of MAIA for smaller insurers

  • Chart of the Week: PE-owned lifers, private assets, and the BIS

    07 November 2025

    The Bank for International Settlements has taken aim at numerous topics swirling around life insurers, all linked by 'illiquidity'

  • Comment - Did you hear that? Was it the sound of Apollo's executives cheering?

    06 November 2025

    PE-owned Challenger very satisfied with planned regulatory reforms in Australia

  • Fitch warns EC's Solvency II reform plans could push shift to "higher-risk or less liquid credit investments"

    06 November 2025

    Firms with 'expanded allocations to private credit, real assets and structured instruments' put on notice