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AI in Insurance: Acceleration Meets Accountability

DLA Piper on 9/2/2025

We are living through the most dynamic regulatory and commercial moment for artificial intelligence since the advent of cloud computing. Contract standards and supervisory expectations are being shaped in real time, propelled...more

AI Today in 5: August 11, 2025, The ACHILLES Project Episode

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist on 8/11/2025

Welcome to AI Today in 5, the newest addition to the Compliance Podcast Network. Each day, Tom Fox will bring you 5 stories about AI to start your day. Sit back, enjoy a cup of morning coffee, and listen in to the AI Today In...more

ESAs launch joint consultation on draft guidelines for ESG stress testing

A&O Shearman on 7/10/2025

The European Supervisory Authorities (the European Banking Authority, European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority and the European Securities and Markets Authority) have launched a joint consultation on their joint...more

DSIR Deeper Dive: Artificial Intelligence - Banner Years (and Counting) for AI Guidance and Regulation

BakerHostetler on 6/5/2025

The period of 2024-2025 was significant for AI law, regulation, and guidance, beginning in early February 2024, and the news told the tale...more

Solvency II: Assessing the implications of the EU’s Amending Directive for the insurance sector

A&O Shearman on 5/21/2025

In January 2025, an amending directive (Directive (EU) 2025/2, “Amending Directive”) was passed that will result in some important changes to the Solvency II Directive (Directive (EU) 2009/13/EU) taking effect across EU...more

Consolidated Q&A on PRIIPs KID updated

A&O Shearman on 5/14/2025

The Joint Committee of the European Supervisory Authorities (ESAs) has updated its consolidated Q&A on the EU packaged retail and insurance-based investment products (PRIIPs) key information document...more

The Standard Formula: Encyclopaedia of Prudential Solvency – Chapter 3: Prudential Insurance Regulation in Japan

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 5/5/2025

This chapter discusses prudential insurance regulation in Japan. Japan is the fourth-largest insurance market in the world, with a broad customer base and a varied range of offerings. This profile, coupled with ongoing...more

International Association of Insurance Supervisors Consults on Structural Shifts in the Life Insurance Sector

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 3/24/2025

Key Points - - The IAIS has issued a detailed analysis of the structural shifts in the life insurance sector related to the increasing allocation to alternative assets and prevalence of asset-intensive reinsurance...more

The Standard Formula: Encyclopaedia of Prudential Solvency – Chapter 1: The IAIS and the ICS

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 3/17/2025

Established in 1994, the International Association of Insurance Supervisors (IAIS) is a voluntary membership organisation comprising insurance regulatory authorities, central banks, ministries of finance, and other...more

DORA: Get ready, get set, take action

A&O Shearman on 12/20/2024

The Digital Operational Resilience Act 2022/2554 (DORA) is a European regulation that will come into force on January 17, 2025. The regulation aims to strengthen the digital operational resilience of the financial sector...more

The Standard Formula: A Guide to Solvency II – Chapter 13: Supervision

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 11/5/2024

1. The Supervision Regime - Proportionality - The supervision regime is built on the principle of “proportionality,” in an effort to ensure that supervision remains effective and meets its underlying purposes without...more

Just a few months left before DORA enforcement: Time to Take Action

A&O Shearman on 9/10/2024

The Digital Operational Resilience Act EU 2022/2554 (DORA) constitutes a groundbreaking EU regulation designed to establish a unified framework for bolstering cybersecurity and operational resilience within the financial...more

The Standard Formula: A Guide to Solvency II – Chapter 10: Governance Requirements

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 9/4/2024

Solvency II is organised around three core pillars of prudential regulation, which ensure the safety and soundness of (re)insurers, in line with the scale, nature and complexity of their business: - Pillar One focuses on...more

Conyers Coverage Issue 11 – Summer 2024

Conyers on 8/29/2024

A warm welcome to the Summer edition of Conyers Coverage. The whirlwind that is the Cayman Islands (re)insurance industry continues to blow with gusto! To keep you updated on recent developments, we include various items from...more

The Standard Formula: A Guide to Solvency II – Chapter 9: Internal Models

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 7/31/2024

There are two main methods of calculating the solvency capital requirement (SCR) under Solvency II, the “standard formula” and “internal model” methods: (a) The standard formula method, as its name suggests, is the default...more

The Standard Formula: A Guide to Solvency II – Chapter 8: Capital Requirements

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 7/2/2024

The Solvency Capital Requirement (SCR) is designed to protect policyholders by helping ensure that insurers can survive difficult periods and pay claims as they fall due. It prescribes a specific level of capital that an...more

Brussels Regulatory Brief: Winter 2023-2024

K&L Gates LLP on 2/13/2024

Antitrust and Competition - The European Court of Justice Held Rules Set by Sports Governing Bodies Must Comply With EU Competition Law - On 21 December 2023, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) held in a preliminary ruling...more

The PRA Tightens Expectations for Funded Reinsurance for the UK Bulk Purchase Annuity Market

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 11/20/2023

On 16 November 2023, the UK Prudential Regulatory Authority (PRA) released draft measures to address perceived risks in the market for funded reinsurance, which is widely used as part of transactions that shift pension scheme...more

Conyers Coverage July 2022 – Issue 7 – Cayman Islands

Conyers on 7/22/2022

We are pleased to bring you the summer 2022 edition of Conyers Coverage, the Cayman Islands insurance newsletter. The Cayman Islands insurance and reinsurance industry has had a strong start to the year and Conyers is...more

Sustainable Finance and Climate Change Risk in Financial Services - March 2020

Latham & Watkins LLP on 3/20/2020

Financial services regulators have been particularly vocal in the last 12 months, specifically about the impact on the financial services sector as the world experiences, and attempts to respond to, climate change. Mark...more

Regulation Round Up - November 2019

Proskauer Rose LLP on 12/4/2019

1 November - The Prudential Regulation Authority ("PRA") published a Dear CEO letter in relation to the reliability of regulatory returns. Firms are expected, if asked, to be able to respond promptly to a request from...more

Opportunities and Challenges for Private Equity Investment in the Insurance Sector

Latham & Watkins LLP on 11/30/2018

Recent private equity investments in high-profile deals, such as Bain Capital’s acquisition of esure and Apollo’s acquisition of Aspen Insurance, have brought European insurance sector deal values to record highs. Regulatory...more

Corporate Insurance Newsletter – August 2018

Hogan Lovells on 9/5/2018

The Hogan Lovells’ Corporate Insurance Newsletter for August has been published. This provides a round-up of UK, EU and international regulatory developments relevant to UK based insurance market participants. ...more

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