Mutual insurance companies have gained back some of the global market share they lost due to demutualizations in recent years. Those gains are threatened, however, by new financial regulations, changes in corporate governance and new technology, Swiss Re said in …
Soft market conditions continue to be the biggest concern for the industry, followed by regulation, competition from third party capital, low investment returns, cyber crime and maintaining underwriting discipline, according to a survey completed by Xuber, the insurance software business …
A change to the list of globally systemically important insurers (G-SIIs) suggests the potential for being added to or removed from the list could play a significant role in setting strategy for some major insurers, according to Fitch Ratings. The …
Aegon NV, the Dutch owner of U.S. insurer Transamerica Corp., has been added to a list of insurers deemed systemically important by global financial rule makers, while Italy’s Assicurazioni Generali SpA was removed. The updated list of nine too-big-to-fail insurers …
Global insurance regulators will take more time than previously planned to address industry concerns before applying tougher capital rules to some of the largest companies they oversee. Capital rules for global insurers, known as the Insurance Capital Standard, or ICS, …
When it comes to finding earnings growth in 2015, the challenge facing the global insurance industry will be uneven economic conditions in many parts of the world, according to a report released by Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services. Entitled “Pursuing …
