Reports and research

YE2015 Market and Credit Risk Comparative Study

The factsheet on Big Dataaims at informing consumers of financial services about the impact of Big Data. The factsheet provides consumers with the information about the potential benefits and risks of the use of Big Data techniques and aims to raise awareness of the measures consumers can take if...

The report on Big Data analysis the impact of big data on consumers and financial firms. Overall, the ESAs have found that while the development of Big Data poses some potential risks to financial services consumers, the benefits of this innovation currently outweigh these. Many of the risks...

EU-US Insurance Dialogue Project: New initiatives for 2017 - 2019

Financial Stability Report December 2017

Since the portfolio of the insurers consists largely of bonds, out of which a significant weight consists of Government bonds, insurers are mainly exposed to interest rate risk and sovereign risk. We are motivated to contribute to the debate around the effect of the low yield environment and the...

Investment behaviour report

Financial Stability Report June 2017

Motivated by the recent introduction of regulatory stress tests in the Solvency II framework, we study the impact of the re-estimation of the tail risk and of loss absorbing capacities on post-stress solvency ratios. Our contribution is threefold. First, we build the first stylised model for re...

EIOPA’s mission is to protect the public interest by contributing to the short-, medium- and long-term stability and effectiveness of the financial system, for the EU economy, its citizens and businesses. This mission is pursued by promoting a sound regulatory framework and consistent supervisory...

Final Report Good Supervisory Practices for Reducing Mechanistic Reliance on Credit Ratings

Financial Stability Report December 2016

This study proposes the potential methodological approach to be utilized by regulators when setting up a Long-Term Rate (LTR) for the evaluation of insurers’ liabilities beyond the last liquid point observable in the market. Our approach is based on the optimization of two contradictory aspects –...

This paper investigates the effect of the conventional and unconventional (e.g. Quantitative Easing) monetary policy intervention on the insurance industry. We first analyse the impact on the stock performances of 166 (re)insurers of the last Quantitative Easing programme launched by the ECB by...

Peer review of the statement of investment policy principles for IORPs

Report on Good Practices on Communication Tools and Channels for communicating to occupational pension scheme members

Peer Review on the NCAs’ governance of colleges

Financial Stability Report June 2016

Under the current low yield environment insurers are changing their business models and looking for new investment and business opportunities. This is also reflected in an increasing interest in mergers and acquisitions to achieve sufficient returns. However, there is no clear answer in the...