Interviews with regulators
Transitions to a Solvency II world: Part 2
Part 1 of this extensive and first interview with Nathalie Berger, Head of the Insurance and Pensions Unit at the European Commission, looked at the impact...
Transitions to a Solvency II world: Part 1
Solvency II Wire about the Commission’s shifting priorities and the challenges of implementing and monitoring Solvency II. Nathalie Berger was appointed to head the Insurance...
Barnier on Omnibus II
Michel Barnier, European Commissioner for Internal Market and Services, responds to written questions from Gideon Benari, Editor of Solvency II Wire about the Omnibus II...
Transparency and legacy
The final part of an extensive interview Carlos Montalvo, Executive Director of EIOPA, in which he talks about the challenges of reporting, look-through and contemplates the future...
In depth analysis
The state of climate risk disclosure in the 2020 SFCRs can best be described as poor. A text search of...
Solvency II Wire can reveal that the ECON vote on Omnibus II Directive scheduled to take place on 24-25 January...
The following two charts show the relationship between total assets and the Solvency ratios of European insurance groups. The figures...
The Solvency II Directive will require National Competent Authorities (NCAs) to deliver quantitative reporting information to EIOPA in XBRL format,...
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