Insurance
A tech-driven transformation
A panel of experts explores how greater collaboration between risk and finance teams can garner significant benefits and add value, how technological innovation is making the regulatory landscape more complicated to navigate and produce transformative…
Risk and finance – Better together
Changing regulations and new accounting standards are creating enormous challenges for financial organisations. Thorsten Hein, principal product marketing manager, risk research and quantitative solutions at SAS, explores why, to successfully meet these…
Insurers’ CLO exposures are small, but growing
US insurer holdings hit $122 billion in Q4 2018
Ties between EU insurers and banks vary by country
Estonian, Cypriot and Swedish insurers most exposed to banking sector
Pre-2019 ABS ‘very unlikely’ to stay in EU liquidity buffers
Issuers will struggle to adapt old deals to new STS rules, forcing banks to reshuffle HQLAs
Libor leaders: Prudential takes SOFR for a test drive
Test trades have allowed US insurer to start getting used to a life without Libor
Bond binge accelerates at eurozone insurers
Annualised growth rate of debt portfolios hits new high of 2.6%
L&G’s counterparty risk charge almost doubles in two years
Operational and market risk charges also climb at UK group
Eurozone insurers’ bets on alternatives raises systemic risk
Dutch firms have more than 25% of total assets tied up in non-traditional investments
BoE makes climate risk a hot topic for banks
Financial institutions must entrust oversight of climate risk to named individual under senior managers regime
Into the void: Europe’s new but hazy securitisation market
Regulatory vagueness reaches new heights as incomplete rules take effect
Realism or deregulation? Fed sidelined in oversight of insurers
Proposed activities-based approach to non-bank systemic risk will make Sifi designations less likely
Cyber modelling masks scale of potential losses, study finds
Different statistical approaches produce big variations in future loss estimates, says Esma researcher
Prudential Financial adds $1bn to liquidity pool
Insurer increases highly liquid assets by 25% in 2018
Fundamentals fuelling smart beta in China
As Chinese equity markets mature and become increasingly driven by fundamentals, the time is right for international investors to invest in smart beta strategies, say Vincent Yam, head of trading, and Weiwei Wang, senior derivatives trader at Guotai…
Fed to persist with insurance capital proposals
Quarles indicates Fed will follow through on building block approach designed by previous board
IFRS 17 Special report 2019
The insurance industry has long been vocal about the need for a two-year extension to the International Accounting Standards Board’s (IASB’s) proposed 2021 implementation date for International Financial Reporting Standard (IFRS) 17 – the accounting…
Solvency II special measures boost EU insurers’ capital ratios
Median insurer's SCR ratio would be 24 percentage points lower without LTG and transitional benefits
