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Wednesday, 23 October 2013

Standard and Poors on European ERM - momentum lost after Solvency II delays?

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S&P released these pearls of wisdom regarding ERM within European insurers, specifically whether the additional breathing space offered...
Tuesday, 22 October 2013

The PRA Consultation on EIOPA's Preparatory Guidance - priorities for 2014 and 2015

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After 10 years, it's finally getting interesting - the PRA today have dropped out a consultation paper on applying EIOPA's preparato...
Tuesday, 15 October 2013

Governance Matters correspondence with the European Commission - Klaus but no cigar?

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I mentioned that back in June that, as part of the EU-wide informal Solvency II shutdown, that I had fired off a couple of notes to various...

Workplace stress, and the need for inverted commas

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A quick one on the news today that Hector Sants, ex-Chief Executive of the PRA, has been signed off with exhaustion and stress 8 months aft...
Tuesday, 8 October 2013

PRA and Early Warning Indicators - Knowing me, knowing EWI...

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Couple of interesting bits have popped up in the last week on the PRA's Early Warning Indicator (EWI) initiative, which I had touched on...
Friday, 4 October 2013

Solvency II, 2016 and "Quick Fix 2" - Let the music play...

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So despite my best baiting at the start of the summer , it has taken until this week for the big news regarding Solvency II to emerge, namel...
Tuesday, 1 October 2013

Reporting/Submission of information to NCAs - EIOPA's FINAL preparatory guidance for national supervisors

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And last, but not least, EIOPA have produced their final preparatory guidance to NCAs regarding the submission of information by firms to th...

Pre-application for Internal Models - EIOPA's FINAL preparatory guidance for national supervisors

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So the March consultation document for internal model pre-application brought a few eye-openers for those countries partaking in a less one...
Monday, 30 September 2013

EIOPA's FINAL preparatory guidance for national supervisors - it's on at last!

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Sporting less change than a busker's flatcap, EIOPA have published their final version of the preparatory guidance for the EU's Na...

ORSA/Forward Looking Assessment of Risk - EIOPA's FINAL preparatory guidance for national supervisors

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EIOPA reuse the preamble from the System of Governance guidance in their ORSA/FLAOR guidance , save for confirming that an assessment of ove...
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System of Governance - EIOPA's FINAL preparatory guidance for national supervisors

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Based on feedback received since their initial consultation paper was released , EIOPA make the following generic clarifications/statements ...
Thursday, 19 September 2013

Financial Reporting Council - documenting 'principal risks' in Strategic Reports

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I had recently spotted that the UK's Financial Reporting Council had issued draft guidance on the compilation of the Strategic Report f...
Tuesday, 10 September 2013

Towers Watson - 'Risk Appetite revisited' (did we ever leave it?)

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I have been doing a little work on Risk Appetite in the background recently, so was intrigued to have a read through this recent release by ...
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Monday, 9 September 2013

Deloitte on 'regulatory uncertainty in Europe' - embedding a new modus operandi (?)

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In a wonderful example of predicting the present, Deloitte have released a white paper (sign-up required) giving their take on regulatory ...
Thursday, 5 September 2013

Omnibus II Plenary delayed until March 2014 - 2016 out of the question?

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Confirmation was provided today , if needed, that the Omnibus II Plenary vote was being pushed back into 2014 - that it needs until March 20...
Thursday, 15 August 2013

FTSE and European Insurers - Economic Capital and Solvency II trends - money pit filled?

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Interim Results season - without question, the most exciting time of the summer for me (although to qualify that, I do live on the Isle of M...
Monday, 12 August 2013

PwC and CSFI's 2013 Insurance Banana Skins survey - "Conduct Risk" firmly a la mode

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Following on from the 2011 version , PwC and the Centre for the Study of Financial Innovation have pumped out another version of their Insur...
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