Risk

  • APAC Weekly - 'Would you like some crypto with that?'

    12 May 2026

    In Japan, some insurers' salespeople offered a wider range of options than surprised customers expected, lately

  • FSB warns of "particularly aggressive" buying of private credit by PE-backed insurers

    11 May 2026

    Report on private credit also notes "significant" forecast growth for Funded Re

  • Alte Leipziger Leben announces German retirement savings product - seven months early

    11 May 2026

    German politicians passed laws on Friday for new retirement fund products

  • Moody's finds "relatively little exposure" to US private credit concerns at UK and European re/insurers

    08 May 2026

    But growing exposure to "hard-to-value" assets highlights role of AM quality

  • NAIC updates Washington on private credit, offshore life reinsurance and business models

    08 May 2026

    NAIC emphasises its asset focus in funded re deals, and on Bermuda and Cayman Islands

  • Candidates seeking industry watchdog role in California split on climate change

    07 May 2026

    Consumer Watchdog polled those seeking to succeed Ricardo Lara on fossil fuel investing

  • Fitch predicts "material reduction" in asset-intensive reinsurance under PRA plans

    06 May 2026

    "Innovative structures" likely, if NAIC acts on private assets popular with AM-owned US lifers

  • Fokoku Life issues ten commandments to avert staff misconduct

    06 May 2026

    Other lifers' salespeople have been found to have breached employers' guidelines

  • APAC Weekly - Temporary insurers step up to fill a Gulf in coverage

    05 May 2026

    Governments across region rush to establish war risk pools

  • PRA's funded re plans won't deter lifers using AIR for accessing esoteric assets

    01 May 2026

    Lawyers and actuaries do expect some impact on UK deal volumes, however

  • PRA plans for funded re part of global 'regulatory convergence', lawyers argue

    30 April 2026

    UK regulator issued proposals for funded re capital treatment yesterday

  • Comment - Is private credit exposure making US life insurers hedge funds' new 'Big Short'?

    29 April 2026

    Reports link US sector's growing interest in private credit, to growing short interests of hedge funds

  • PRA reveals plans for dealing with asset intensive reinsurance

    29 April 2026

    UK regulator cites private credit risk in deals, among reasons it is acting

  • NA lifers resilient in face of hypothetical private credit market stress, S&P Global Ratings says

    28 April 2026

    Agency's stress test finds only "extreme scenario" likely to impact significant proportion of firms' capital scores

  • APAC Weekly - Could APAC bushfires leap into the urban landscape?

    28 April 2026

    APAC insurers, and risk modellers, are facing up to the risk of 'urban conflagration'