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FSA Changes Date for Solvency II Implementation, Lloyd’s, Aon Benfield Comment

On October 3, the UK’s Financial Services Authority (FSA) announced a revision to the dates on which it plans to implement the provisions of the European Union’s Solvency II regulations governing the insurance industry, moving the date for companies back …

Willis Re Upbeat on S&P’s New Insurer Capital Model

After several years of uncertainty, coupled with no small amount of angst, Willis Re, the reinsurance broker for Willis Group Holdings, has published a reassuring report on Standard & Poor’s new criteria for assessing insurers’ economic capital models. Willis Re …

Best’s Special Report Analyzes EU’s Solvency II Impact on Ratings

A report from A.M. Best Co. provides a timely analysis of the fast approaching implementation of the European Commission’s long-awaited Solvency II insurance regulations, which are now scheduled to come into force as of for January 1, 2013. Best noted …

S&P Publishes Updated Insurers’ Economic Capital Models

Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services has published its updated methodology for assessing insurers’ economic capital models on Jan. 24, 2011. S&P said the announced criteria “apply to all the life and health insurers, property and casualty insurers (frequently called non-life …