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Raising the standard

The German insurance industry is actively pushing forward the discussion on the standard model within the scope of Solvency II

Pillars of wisdom

European insurance regulation is shifting from Pillar I rulebook to Pillar II dialogue. But the dialogue may be evolving into a poker game. Aaron Woolner reports

FSA opens doors to securitisation

The UK's Financial Services Authority has outlined a new approach to insurance securitisation. A vital capital and risk management tool for banks, securitisation currently sits outside the mainstream of the insurance industry, but there are growing signs…

UK Minister hails Solvency II

Ivan Lewis MP, a minister at the UK's Treasury with responsibility for insurance, has hailed the Solvency II process as a mechanism to enable the EU's insurance industry to remain competitive in the face of the globalisation of the financial services…

CROs make Solvency II plea

Members of the Chief Risk Officer (CRO) Forum used an address at Life and Pensions' December 2005 Insurance Risk conference to call for significant improvements to the Solvency II regime that the EU is expected to implement before the end of the decade.

The fundamentals of operational risk assessments

In the third of a series on scaling operational risk management for the small to medium-sized institution, Eric Holmquist discusses the fundamental elements to consider when developing an operational risk assessment where the emphasis is on process…

Who's buying?

Operational risk derivatives are being reconsidered as a solution to banks' distrust of op risk insurance policies, but the market for these is yet to develop. By Duncan Wood

Basel spotlights home-host and EL issues

Basel, Switzerland – The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision released two documents in late November, to provide the financial services industry with some additional clarity on both the home-host issue and the treatment of expected losses under the…

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