All Regulatory articles – Page 15
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Features
Jumping through hoops
Concerns are being raised that European regulation is becoming too stifling and could echo the stringent US model. Liz Booth investigates.
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No guarantees
Huge losses, downgrades and fears of corporate defaults. If ever there was a case study in the risks associated with a monoline business model, the bond insurance sector has provided it. Helen Yates reports.
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GR Focus
No pain, no gain
The implementation of Europe-wide capital adequacy regulation, Solvency II, will be a huge landmark for the insurance industry. Set to be implemented by 2012, it will have a significant impact on the capital structures of insurance companies and how risk is managed. As organisations endeavour to become Solvency II-compliant, many ...
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Industry Matters
Free market power
David Sampson promotes the value of a joined up approach to insuring the Floridian property insurance market.
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Country Analysis
Emerald Isle
Partner Re, XL, Allied World, Quanta and Max Insurance are all based out there. No it’s not Bermuda but Dublin, Ireland that is becoming one of Europe’s most attractive reinsurance centres. Helen Yates reports.
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Industry Matters
Learning curve
Dr Simon Young looks at the Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility after almost a year in existence.
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GR Focus
Counting the cost
With the cost of red tape leaping a dramatic £10bn to £66bn a year in the UK alone, a new Norton Rose survey reveals how insurers and reinsurers really feel about regulation. James Bateson reports.
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Features
When politics and insurance clash
Allstate in the dock, insurance pools with negative equity and a federal catastrophe backstop in the offing. With election fever in the air, Ronald Gift Mullins looks at an increasingly politicised US insurance market.
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Features
The truth about diversification
After Hurricane Katrina and her sisters wrought their destruction in 2005 the Bermuda monoline business model was never going to look good. Two and a half years on, Lee Coppack asks if diversification is all it’s cracked up to be.
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Scottish Re waves goodbye to another CEO
George Zippel to leave in July; board feels his contribution is "no longer considered viable" given subprime exposures
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Online onlyBermuda thriving amid turmoil, says Fitch
Rating agency considers developing a separate rating outlook for Bermuda
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Online onlySwiss Re profits in at CHF4.2bn; lawsuit filed
Further credit swap writedown of CHF240m; Class action suit filed against the reinsurer
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Florida needs a long-term solution, urges PCI
Floridians want to revisit the 2007 legislation and don't want "quick fixes", reveals a PCI poll
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Europe consumers to help avoid recession
S&P says European consumers will determine how severe economic slowdown becomes
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Ratings assigned to Fund American Re
Bermuda-based subsidiary of White Mountains gains an "A-"; Folksamerica Re ratings affirmed
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Lloyd's backs market reform
A new survey reveals 82% of underwriters back market reform but cycle management is still a huge challenge
