Regulation & Compliance
Cyber Attacks Becoming Significant Threat to Insurer Credit Quality: A.M. Best
Insurance rating agency A.M. Best still considers natural catastrophe losses to be the primary threat to the financial strength and credit quality of property/casualty insurers, but cyber-attack ...
AIG-Style Bailouts Restricted Under New Fed Rules
The Federal Reserve took the final step to ensure it can't repeat the extraordinary steps taken to rescue American International Group Inc. and Bear Stearns Cos. in 2008, adopting formal restrictions ...
EC Finds Solvency II Equivalence for Bermuda
The Bermuda Monetary Authority (the Authority) and several international insurance organizations confirmed the European Commission's publication of a Delegated Act recognizing the equivalence of ...
Climate Change Will Spur Future Sovereign Ratings Downgrades: S&P
Thailand's credit rating downgraded by two levels. Dominican Republic lowered one grade. These are not real news headlines yet, but could be, according to scenarios outlined by Standard & Poor's. ...
Nine Straight Years for P/C Reserves Releases: Fitch
Property/casualty insurers continued to take down loss reserves for prior years in 2014, which marked the ninth straight calendar year of favorable development for the industry in aggregate, ...
Proposed Solvency Rules Give Lloyd’s, Other British Insurers Key Exemption
Britain's biggest insurers will be exempt from having their most important indicator of financial health externally audited under proposals issued by the Bank of England on Friday. New European Union ...
The Growing Controversy Over Price Optimization in Insurance
The use of price optimization in insurance pricing is drawing increased attention and could be the next big industry battle. Or it could not be. Consumer groups and a growing contingent of states are ...
PartnerRe ‘AA-‘ Rating on Negative Watch in Advance of EXOR Deal Vote: Fitch
Citing uncertainties related to the acquisition of PartnerRe by EXOR S.p.A and stressed conditions in the reinsurance market, Fitch Ratings announced that it is keeping the "AA-" insurer financial ...