Page ContentThe three European Supervisory Authorities (ESAs) – EBA, EIOPA and ESMA – today published the results of their monitoring exercise on automation in financial advice. The Report shows that while the phenomenon of automation in financial advice seems to be slowly growing, the overall...

Today, the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA) published an updated technical documentation for the calculation of the volatility adjustment to risk-free interest rates (RFR) for the Danish krone and Denmark. The risk-free rate methodology includes updated representative...

Page ContentThe European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA) recently became a member of the Sustainable Insurance Forum (SIF), a network of insurance supervisors and regulators from around the world working together on sustainability challenges facing the insurance sector.The...

Page ContentToday, the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA) published its report "Understanding Cyber Insurance - A Structured Dialogue with Insurance Companies".Cyber risk is a growing concern for in­stitutions, individuals, and financial mar­kets. In less than five...

Today, the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA) published the third in a series of papers with the aim of contributing to the debate on systemic risk and macroprudential policy. Until now, the debate has mainly focused on the banking sector due to its prominent role in...

Page ContentToday, the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA) published its Discussion paper on resolution funding and national insurance guarantee schemes as a follow-up to the EIOPA Opinion on the harmonisation of recovery and resolution frameworks for (re)insurers across...

Today, the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA) published its updated Risk Dashboard based on the first quarter 2018 data. The results of the first quarter 2018 show that the risk exposure of the insurance sector in the European Union remains stable overall with a decline...

Page ContentEuropean Supervisory Authorities publish further guidance on the Key Information Document for PRIIPs

Page ContentThe Board of Supervisors of the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA) has appointed new members to the Insurance and Reinsurance Stakeholder Group (IRSG) and Occupational Pensions Stakeholder Group (OPSG). The new members will take up their appointment on 4...

Page ContentToday, the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA) published a report on "Failures and near misses in insurance: Overview of the causes and early identification" to enhance the understanding of the causes of insurers' failures and near misses.The financial crisis...

Today, the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA) launched a thematic review on consumer protection issues in travel insurance. The purpose of the review is to identify consumer protection issues in travel insurance and possible actions to ensure better consumer protection...

Page ContentToday, the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA) published its Mediation Opinion regarding the determination of the correct insurance class for the insurance policy known as "statutory risks" in France.The mediation conducted by EIOPA's Mediation Panel involved...

Page ContentToday, the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA) launched a European Union-wide thematic review on Big Data as a follow-up to the European Supervisory Authorities' cross-sectorial review of the use of Big Datapublished in March this year.The purpose of the...

Today, the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority published the Opinion addressed to national supervisory authorities about the duty of insurance undertakings and insurance intermediaries to inform customers about the possible impact of the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the...

Today, the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA) submitted, as required by Article 10(7) of the Insurance Distribution Directive, the draft Regulatory Technical Standards to the European Commission adapting the base euro amounts for professional indemnity insurance and...

Page ContentToday, the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA) published its June 2018 Financial Stability Report of the (re)insurance and occupational pensions sectors in the European Economic Area. The persistent low yield environment remains the main risk for both the...

Page ContentEuropean Supervisory Authorities hold its 2018 Consumer Protection Day

Page ContentToday, EIOPA published a new set of statistical information on the European insurance sector based on Solvency II regulatory reporting for the fourth quarter of 2017.In addition to the regular statistics, for the first time EIOPA is publishing new exposure statistics on the European...

Page ContentToday, the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA) published its Annual Report 2017.The Annual Report provides a comprehensive overview of the Authority's activities in 2017. During this year, the focus of the Authority's work was strengthening supervisory...