On 19 April 2012, Julian Adams, Director of Insurance Supervision in the Prudential Business Unit of the Financial Services Authority (FSA), gave a speech at the City & Financial Conference entitled “The new approach to insurance regulation and the implementation of Solvency II”.
Read MoreA survey conducted by the Association for Financial Markets in Europe (AFME), and published on 11 April 2012, suggests that the proposed Solvency II rules will dramatically reduce the willingness of insurers to invest in securitisation assets. AFME suggests that this in turn will have a negative impact on economic recovery.
Read MoreThis presentation will be of interest to anyone working in, or advising, an international insurance or reinsurance group. It will also be of interest to reinsurers based outside the European Union with reinsureds based inside the Union.
Read MoreOn 12 January 2012, a vote by the Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee of the European Parliament on the Omnibus II Directive was delayed until 21 March 2012. When adopted, Omnibus II will make significant changes to the Solvency II Directive. The vote had previously been rescheduled from 20 December 2011 to 24 January 2012.
Read MoreOn 8 December 2011, Julian Adams, Director of Insurance at the Financial Services Authority (FSA), explained in a speech to the Association of British Insurers how UK (re)insurance companies may be permitted to start their Solvency II implementation as initially scheduled on 1 January 2013 rather than on the delayed implementation date of 1 January 2014.
Read MoreIn a statement last week, Therese Vaughn, Chief Executive Officer of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (the NAIC”), stated that the state-based regulatory system in the United States should be deemed equivalent to the Europe Union’s Solvency II regulatory process. According to Vaughn, while the United States will not have a single set of rules like the European Union, the state-based works and has been tested by the recent financial crisis.
Read MoreOn 26 October 2011, the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA) submitted its final advice to the European Commisson (EC) on its assessment of the Solvency II equivalence of the supervisory systems of Bermuda, Japan and Switzerland.
Read MoreLloyd’s managing agents have until 26 August 2011 to submit a draft Validation Report to Lloyd’s.
Read MoreOn 27 July 2011, the Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee of the European Parliament (the Committee) proposed in a draft report on Omnibus II (click here for a copy) that the Solvency II regime be introduced through a process of “phasing-in”, with (re)insurance undertakings not being required to comply in full until 1 January 2014.
Read MoreOn 5 May 2011, the European Commission published a summary of responses to its consultation on the level 2 implementing measures for the Solvency II directive (please click here for a link to the summary).
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