Insurance
Insurance Sifi rules squeeze the balloon on US annuities
Non-bank Sifis continue to sell assets, despite MetLife's court win
Bangladesh Bank fraud is a comedy of op risk errors
Megan van Ooyen from SAS rounds up the top five operational risk losses for March 2016
Technological nightmares worry Zurich Global Corporate CRO
Cyber crime and nanoparticles represent emerging risks for insurers, says John Scott
LV= weighing options for equity-release mortgages
Complex assets left out of matching adjustment application, but could be added when internal model is approved
MetLife Sifi win leaves G-Sii status meaningless – US lawyers
Federal court decision brings whole Sifi and G-Sii designation process into question
Putting a price on long-term life insurance business (part II)
Extending risk-adjusted performance metrics to take into account real-world investment returns
G-Sii process ‘out of touch’, says Axa’s Thimann
Interview: designation approach open to political influence, argues head of group strategy
The future of risk data management
Sponsored webinar: FIS
Life firms irked by patchy matching adjustment approvals
UK regulator could have been more clear about success of bolder submissions, say advisers
UK regulator outlines wish list for Solvency II review
Risk margin “highly pro-cyclical” and ultimate forward rate “completely unrealistic”, says financial policy director
Bundesbank’s Buch slams lower capital for insurers in infrastructure
Deputy president says the use of prudential regulations to achieve economic policy objectives is “highly problematic”
Life firms split on what risk margin means for bulk annuities
L&G predicts record volumes, but Aegon and UK's Prudential say risk-margin costs too high
Putting a price on long-term life insurance business
Allianz's Thomas Wilson re-examines how firms measure the value of capital-intensive products
Experts warn on simplistic approach to vendor risk
Magnitude of exposures "very difficult" to size
Insurance risk manager of the year: Standard Life
UK insurer’s risk function launched reviews of business and tech risks
The case for levying an Eiopa 'tax'
Chair is hopeful European Commission may address structural problem of funding regulator
Irish supervisor sees insurance pricing as prudential issue
Regulator takes hands-on approach following insurance failures
'We are all at risk' from cyber, conference told
Worry of financial firms shown by increasing demand for cyber liability insurance
MetLife puts forward alternative approach to G-Sii designation
NTNI definition could be dropped from G-Sii assessment and replaced by liquidity measures, says insurer
Insurers should prep for questions on pro-cyclicality
Regulatory agenda shifting to systemic risk of herding
ESRB's buffer plan would worsen systemic risk – insurers
Industry and regulators at loggerheads over pro-cyclicality
Testing interest rate models for Solvency II applications
Alexey Botvinnik and Vladimir Ostrovski propose a validation method for interest rate models
UK insurance association slams ESRB report
'Very poorly timed' paper misses the point on pro-cyclicality, says ABI’s head of regulation
Banks pitch flexible ‘sunset CSAs’ for pension funds, insurers
New-style contracts allow clients to post government bonds as swap collateral until clearing exemption ends