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…
Fitch: Florida’s Insurance Market Is Better Positioned for 2026 Hurricanes — But Untested
Fitch Ratings flags Florida's reformed insurance market as better positioned for the 2026 hurricane season — but warns that reform resilience remains untested against…
New Zealand’s NHC Renews NZ$12.3B Record Reinsurance Tower at +20%
NHC reinsurance tower 2026 reaches a record NZ$12.3B — a 20% increase secured at cost-effective terms, with ILS capital embedded and a NZ$1.4B taxpayer…
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…
WTW CLIPS: US Commercial Insurance Rates Drop to 2.5% in Q1 2026
US commercial insurance rates hit 2.5% in Q1 2026 — the first sub-3% reading since the hard market began. Property fell 5.5%, cyber dropped…
Saudi Insurance Authority: End of SAMA’s Dual Mandate and What Comes Next
Saudi Arabia Insurance Authority is now sole regulator, replacing dual SAMA oversight. RBC parallel run begins 2026; mandatory Jan 2027.
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…