
Read our selection of interviews and contributions that EIOPA's Chair, Executive Director or other members of staff gave to the media.
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RSSInterview with European Pensions conducted by Jack Gray
Interview with European Pensions conducted by Jack Gray
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Interview with Bankovnictví conducted by Martina Sobková, Deputy Editor in Chief and Tomáš Houdek, Editor in Chief
One of the biggest worldwide problems in insurance is the question of lacking coverage. How is the situation in the EU and what is EIOPA doing to close protection gaps?Indeed, protection gaps can be observed in multiple segments of the insurance world, such as in cyber, pandemic, or natural...
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- Protection gapSustainabilityFinancial stability
Solvency II review: main aims, topics for negotiation and remaining challenges
Solvency II established a framework for supervision of Europe’s insurance sector, underpinning the importance of a risk-based approach to assessing and mitigating risks. With the overarching objective of strengthening policyholder protection, the framework continues to work well. Nonetheless, it...
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- Solvency II
The Retail Investment Strategy: unlocking its full potential for life insurance
The Retail Investment Strategy is a key plank of the European Commission’s Capital Markets Union and aims to promote more transparency, simplicity, fairness and cost-efficiency for retail investment products across the internal market.EIOPA strongly supports these objectives. Insurance-Based...
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- Consumer protection
Addressing the protection gap: challenges and opportunities for (re)insurers
The new EU strategy on adaptation to climate changehighlights the fact that affordability and insurability of natural catastrophes insurance coverage is likely to become an increasing concern. Research shows that in the past only a quarter of the total losses caused by extreme weather and climate...
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- Sustainability
Digital Operational Resilience: a challenge for the supervisory community
Digital operational resilience refers to the ability of a financial entity to build, assure and review its operational integrity and reliability.The financial sector has always relied heavily on information and communication technology (ICT) and this reliance grew during the COVID-19 pandemic as...
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- Digitalisation
Fine-tuning needed to ensure investors contribute to the European Green Deal
There is no question that urgent action is required to address climate change and that environmental protection should be integrated into economic growth strategies. In the financial sector, insurance and pension funds have the longest investment time horizons and hence the greatest stake in...
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- Sustainability
Interview of Petra Hielkema
INESE: You have just completed six months at the helm of EIOPA, what has been your focus during this time?Petra Hielkema: I have had a good first half year. It has been easy because my predecessor did a great job. But, at the same time, it has been a rollercoaster because I had to meet with many...
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- Petra Hielkema
EIOPA is calling for a Europe-wide Insurance Guarantee Scheme
Mrs Hielkema, what impact could the war in the Ukraine have on the insurance industry?The first we did is to assess the direct impact. And here we see that there is very limited impact. The exposure of both insurance as well as the occupational pension sector to Russia, is low. It’s 0.1%. for the...
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- Solvency IISupervision
Reviewing Solvency II: Keeping the regime fit for purpose
The Solvency II Directive came into effect in Europe on 1 January 2016 and was a true milestone, resulting in real progress in terms of risk management and the harmonisation of prudential standards in the European Economic Area. The insurance industry now uses a risk based approach to assess and...
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- Solvency II