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The European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA) released today its dashboard, which depicts the insurance protection gap for natural catastrophes across Europe. This tool is the first dashboard which presents the drivers of a climate-related insurance protection gap to identify...

The European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA) has published the technical information on the symmetric adjustment of the equity capital charge for Solvency II with reference to the end ofNovember 2022.Click here to view the documentation.Legal BackgroundThe symmetric...

Today, the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA) published technical information on the relevant risk-free interest rate term structures (RFR) with reference to the end of November 2022.RFR technical information has been calculated on the basis of the content of...

The European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA) published today aDiscussion Paper on Methodological Principles of Insurance Stress Testing with focus on Cyber Risk.This discussion paper contains a set of theoretical and practical approaches to support the design phase of...

As the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27) draws to a close, the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority underlines its commitment to supporting the insurance and pensions sectors in tackling climate change.Greening the economy will not happen overnight, but every...

The three European Supervisory Authorities (EBA, EIOPA and ESMA – ESAs) today published a Call for Evidence on greenwashing to gather input from stakeholders on how to understand the key features, drivers and risks associated with greenwashing and to collect examples of potential greenwashing...

The European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA) published today two staff papers to provide more clarity on recovery and resolution in insurance and thereby support a better understanding of the topic among stakeholders. The papers focus, in particular, on the proposal for an...

The European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA) has published the technical information on the symmetric adjustment of the equity capital charge for Solvency II with reference to the end ofOctober 2022.Click hereto view the documentation.Legal BackgroundThe symmetric adjustment...

Today, the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA) published technical information on the relevant risk-free interest rate term structures (RFR) with reference to the end of October 2022.RFR technical information has been calculated on the basis of the content of...

The European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA) published today its Risk Dashboard based on Solvency II data from the second quarter of 2022. The results show that insurers’ exposures to macro and market risks are currently the main concern for the insurance sector. All other...

The European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA) published today its methodology for assesing value for money in the unit-linked market.The methodology outlines a common European approach on how to identify unit-linked products which may offer poor or no value for money and...

Today Petra Hielkema, Chairperson of the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA), participated in the annual hearing of the Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee of the European Parliament.In her introductory statement, Ms Hielkema underlined the vital role that the...

The European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA) published todaya follow-up report to the 2019 peer review on the propriety assessment of administrative, management and supervisory body (AMSB) members and qualifying shareholders across the European Economic Area. The follow-up...

The European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA) has published the technical information on the symmetric adjustment of the equity capital charge for Solvency II with reference to the end ofSeptember 2022.Click here to view the documentation.Legal BackgroundThe symmetric...

Today, the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA) published technical information on the relevant risk-free interest rate term structures (RFR) with reference to the end of September 2022.RFR technical information has been calculated on the basis of the content of...

The European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA) has today issued a warning to insurers and banks to address consumer protection issues related to sale of credit protection insurance (CPI) products. In its warning, EIOPA calls on insurers and banks to take action or risk facing...

The European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA) has set out its strategy for the period 2023 – 2026.Current geopolitical tensions due to Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine coupled with lingering effects of the pandemic, market volatility and inflation underline the need for...

The three European Supervisory Authorities (EBA, EIOPA and ESMA – ESAs) have today delivered to the European Commission (EC) their Final Report with draft Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) regarding the disclosure of financial products’ exposure to investments in fossil gas and nuclear energy...

The European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA) published today two Supervisory Statements on:exclusions related to systemic events such as pandemic, natural catastrophes or large cyber-attacks,and onthe management of non-affirmative cyber exposures.Supervisory statement on...