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Financial Institutions Horizons 2023
15 February 2023
The outlook for 2023 looks uncertain, following another tumultuous year. The collapse of a number of large cryptocurrency exchanges has shone another spotlight on the digital asset...
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Securitisation and capital requirements – a match (not) made in Basel?
29 September 2022
The updated Basel III framework is the principal response of the Basel Committee to the global financial crisis. The updated framework makes wide-ranging changes to the perceived...
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HM Treasury and the PRA start the consultation process on reforms to the UK’s Solvency II regime
29 April 2022
Yesterday (28 April 2022), HM Treasury published its much-anticipated consultation paper on its proposals to reform aspects of the UK’s Solvency II regime. At the same time, the ...
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A buoyant pension de-risking market creates opportunities for specialty as well as life insurers
08 April 2022
While life (re)insurers are the primary beneficiaries of the large market insuring the liabilities of UK defined benefit (DB) pension schemes, there may be an unexploited business...
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Keeping track of insurance legal and regulatory developments in 2022
13 January 2022
The Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) wrote to insurers on 12 January 2022 setting out its priorities for 2022 and its expectations of insurers going forward. Being able to...
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Prudential/Rothesay Part VII transfer approved: normal service resumed?
13 December 2021
The Court’s sanction of the transfer of a portfolio of annuity and pension buy-out policies (originally around 400,000 policies with liabilities close to £12.9 billion) from...
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The Solvency II Review: a new direction for UK insurance regulation? Webinar on 11 February at 12.30pm
08 February 2021
The UK government is reviewing the Solvency II regime and its impact on the UK’s insurance sector.
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Court of Appeal delivers its verdict on the Prudential/Rothesay Part VII transfer
08 December 2020
A number of important issues were raised in relation to Part VII transfers in the recent hearing before the Court of Appeal relating to the proposed transfer of annuity business from The...
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Solvency II Review – second time round
02 November 2020
Earlier this summer, the UK government announced that it would review the impact of the Solvency II regime on the UK insurance industry. On 19 October 2020, HM Treasury published a...
