Insurance
Ice adds insurance to default waterfall
Protection promises partial recovery of guarantee funds at three CCPs
Securities lending down over 10% among US insurers in 2018
Firms stepped away from securities lending transactions and repo markets last year
Seamless integration – Drivers of and barriers to cloud adoption
Siarhei Niaborski, executive vice-president of risk at CompatibL, discusses the rate of cloud adoption in the capital markets industry and its possible drivers and barriers, how firms can derive maximum value from cloud usage and the criteria on which…
Cat risk: why forecasting climate change is a disaster
Forecasters are poles apart on climate-driven catastrophes; insurers fear worse ahead
PRA drops ‘timely’ payouts in credit risk insurance
Plan for expeditious timeframe set aside to delight of banks worried about retaining capital breaks
CECL prompts loan sales, hunt for insurance
Risk USA: ‘CECL hogs’ could deplete capital ratios and be a drag on earnings
MetLife investment yields squeezed by rate cuts, repo turmoil
Investment spread at retirement and income solutions unit down to 1.02%
Navigating the impact of climate risk on financial stability
As uncertainty abounds on the impact climate change may have on the industry, financial services firms must best equip themselves for potential regulatory and socioeconomic changes to ensure they maximise the opportunities of embracing new best practices…
Companies delay climate policy action at their peril
Failure to take immediate action on the proposals set out in the Paris Agreement on climate change could cost approximately $1.2 trillion over the next 15 years in policy risk costs. Oliver Marchand, co-founder of Carbon Delta and executive director of…
Asia moves: Credit Suisse appoints equity research head, Natixis makes string of hires, and more
Latest job changes across the industry
Realising opportunities while managing conduct risk
As efforts to transition from Libor to risk-free rates ramp up, Maria Blanco and Nassim Daneshzadeh, partners in PwC’s US and UK financial services practices, discuss two critical and interconnected strategies that are front and centre for PwC clients
Libor takes a back seat as insurers await regulatory clarity
Eiopa silence on discount curves holds back transition plans
IFRS 17 solutions provider of the year: FIS
Asia Risk Technology Awards 2019
Derivatives house of the year, Japan: BNP Paribas
Asia Risk Awards 2019
Insurers slow purchases of eurozone sovereign bonds
Annualised growth rate of government debt holdings falls to 2%
Generali pivots from corporate bonds
Company debt makes up 31.6% of life insurance investment portfolio; 28.1% of property and casualty portfolio
Poor asset returns threaten EU insurers’ profitability
Life insurers report median zero investment return in 2018
Gaps emerge in US plan to regulate non-bank systemic risk
Former regulators say FSOC may struggle to measure systemic risk in repo, loan markets
Sterling RFR group urges Eiopa to end mismatch on rates
In letter, group points to discrepancy in requirement to use Libor-linked rates as Libor fades out
Non-banks muscle in on UK financing
Non-banks account for 51% of total financial sector assets
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…