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UK’s Financial Services Exports Highlight Need to Keep Post-Brexit Access: Officials

Britain’s exports of financial services to the European Union hit a record high last year, highlighting the need for the City to preserve access to the bloc after Brexit, industry officials said on Tuesday. Exports rose 3.6 billion pounds ($4.73 …

Fitch Says Bermuda (Re)Insurers Should Weather Sovereign Downgrade

According to Fitch Ratings, “while insurance industry concerns factored into Tuesday’s downgrade of Bermuda,” it does not expect Bermuda (re)insurers to be affected, “as all our ratings of Bermuda (re)insurers remain below the new sovereign rating, which also has a …

Economic Crisis Challenges Harmonization of U.S. Regulations, EU’s Solvency II

The EU’s Solvency II regulations get most of the headlines, but there are other regulatory bodies, which are trying to modernize and harmonize the regulations for global insurance companies. Their task has been made even more difficult by the prolonged …

Bermuda Association Lauds Government Progress on Solvency II ‘Equivalence’

While U.S. regulators are beginning to be worried about the impending imposition of the European Union’s Solvency II regulations for the re/insurance industry, which will come into force in 2014, Bermuda has been working on accommodating its regulations with Solvency …

Living with Solvency II; A Top Regulator Gives His Views

Solvency II, the European Union’s imminent imposition of new and more sophisticated risk based regulation of its insurers, may not be the only elephant in the room It is, however the main focus of a great deal of activity within …

Best’s Analysis Concludes Solvency II Will Transform EU Captive Insurers

Although it has been coming for more than 10 years, the European Union’s Solvency II regulations covering the community’s insurance industry is now virtually around the corner. Over the years there has been a great deal of discussion centering on …