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
Bermudan insurers must hold sufficient capital to meet their Enhanced Capital Requirement (ECR), as specified under Bermuda's solvency capital regime....
Liquidity Liquidity denotes the ease with which an asset can be traded. Conversely, illiquidity is the measure of difficulty of...
Michel Barnier, European Commissioner for Internal Market and Services, responds to written questions from Gideon Benari, Editor of Solvency II...
EIOPA’s Solvency II work is at a delicate turning point: it must continue drafting standards and guidelines while at the...
COMMENT It is commonplace for multiple versions of financial regulation to be enacted. Basel I, II and III, MiFID I...
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