Insurance

The time is now

Now is the time for all good insurers to start preparing for Solvency II. Victoria Pennington explains what the new capital requirements for insurers will involve, and assesses the market's readiness for their implementation in 2012

Future options

Operational risk derivatives have been touted for a few years now, but interest in them moves in waves. The current tide is high, however. Duncan Wood tests the water

The stagnancy of risk transfer

It's fairly clear from our feature on alternative forms of risk transfer for op risk that not much has happened in this space over the past two years, despite a lot of fine words from both the insurance industry and its clients.