UK Parliament Seeks Power to Scrutinize Financial Services Regulators January 25, 2023 By Katherine Griffiths Britain’s financial regulators would face more scrutiny over their policies for consumers and the economy from Parliament under proposals from...
UK Insurers Fear That Promised Brexit Capital Reforms Will Be Derailed January 23, 2023 By Katherine Griffiths Insurers loved the UK government’s long-awaited plans to free up billions of pounds of their capital. But after the celebrations...
Bank of England Worried New Insurance Capital Rules Could Risk Policyholder Bailout January 17, 2023 By Huw Jones and David Milliken Britain’s proposed changes to capital rules for insurers could lead to the government having to bail out policyholders, as happened...
Banks Still Need to Learn Lessons from 2022 Crises: BoE January 10, 2023 By Iain Withers Banks still need to improve their risk management and learn the lessons from various crises that rocked markets in 2022,...
UK Non-Bank Institutions (Such as Insurers) Face 1st Stress Test After Pensions Turmoil December 13, 2022 By Huw Jones and David Milliken Investment funds and other non-bank financial institutions face their first “stress test” next year to apply lessons from the near-meltdown...
FTX Collapse Shows Need to Regulate Crypto World: Bank of England November 21, 2022 By Marc Jones and Huw Jones The implosion of cryptocurrency exchange FTX shows the need to bring the crypto world within the regulatory framework, Bank of...
UK Government Pushes Forward With Long-Awaited Insurer Reforms November 18, 2022 By Katherine Griffiths and William Shaw After years of fraught debate between regulators, insurers and the Treasury, Jeremy Hunt confirmed Thursday that the government would push...
UK Insurers Provide Test Case for Post-Brexit ‘Unshackling’ From EU Capital Rules November 17, 2022 By Huw Jones and Carolyn Cohn The British government and the Bank of England are reforming insurers’ capital rules, seen as a post-Brexit test of UK...
Bank of England Chief Questions Government Plan for Post-Brexit Financial Rules November 17, 2022 Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey took the British government to task on Wednesday over its plan to give itself...
UK Government in Advanced Talks With Regulators on Insurance Capital Reforms November 16, 2022 By Katherine Griffiths The UK government is close to an agreement with regulators over insurance capital reforms intended to release billions of pounds...