EIOPA 2025 Annual Report: Ten Years of Solvency II Under Pressure
Solvency II turns ten with EU insurers posting solid SCR ratios, but EIOPA's 2025 Annual Report flags hundreds of billions in private credit exposure,…
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OECD Cuts 2026 Outlook: What the Middle East Shock Means for Insurers
OECD 2026 economic outlook bifurcates global GDP at 2.8% vs 2.1%. We translate the OECD's Middle East scenarios into an insurer stress test: reserve…
UK PRA Targets 2027 Captive Insurance Regime to Reverse Offshore Drift
UK captive insurance regime launches by mid-2027 as the PRA targets ~500 offshore captives with proportionate Solvency UK rules and no tax incentives.
UK Regulators Warn Frontier AI Cyber Threats Now Outpace Human Defenders
The FCA, Bank of England and HM Treasury have jointly confirmed that frontier AI cyber capabilities now exceed those of a skilled human practitioner…
Allianz Research: Extreme Heat Could Erase 5–7% of GDP for the Most Exposed Economies by 2030
Extreme heat GDP losses of 5–7% by 2030 for the most exposed economies — Allianz Research's parametric-ready quantification redefines heat as a sovereign risk…
Bulgaria Pulls DallBogg Licence as EIOPA’s Escalation Model Faces First Full Test
EIOPA enforcement reached its terminal stage on 9 June 2026 as Bulgaria's FSC withdrew DallBogg's insurance licence — the first full-sequence test of the…
Willis Re Names Jim Summers as Global Specialties CEO; Arch Elevates Felisky to UK Chair
Willis Re appoints Jim Summers as CEO Global Specialties; Arch Insurance International names Kendra Felisky as UK Chair after nine years under Storey.
Lloyd’s Enhanced Underwriting Reaches 77% of Market GWP as Algorithmic Facilities Reshape Specialty Lines
Lloyd's enhanced underwriting covers 77% of market GWP as Ki hits $1.1bn and digital broker facilities project 50% annual growth, reshaping specialty lines
Allianz Group 2025 SFCR: A Decade of Portfolio Shift as Government Bonds Halved and CIU Hits €255bn
Allianz 2025 SFCR: government bonds halved to EUR 97bn over a decade. The EUR 255bn CIU headline is largely a Solvency II reclassification artefact…
ICEYE’s €1bn+ Series F Bets on Satellite Data to Close the Global Nat-Cat Protection Gap
ICEYE closes €450M primary Series F led by General Atlantic at €10bn+ valuation, funding scale to 100 SAR satellites/year by 2028 to close nat-cat…