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The European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA) published today its 2021 Supervisory Convergence Plan. In 2021 EIOPA intends to complete the priorities stemming from the previous plan, while allowing for flexibility to continue monitoring and mitigating the impact from the Covid...

The European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA) published today its staff paper on measures to improve the insurability of business interruption in light of pandemics. Building on the Issues paper on shared resilience solutions for pandemics published in July, EIOPA analyses...

The European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA) published today its Risk Dashboard based on the third quarter of 2020 Solvency II data.The results show that insurers’ exposures to macro risks decreased from very high to high level, while all other risk categories remain at...

The Joint Committee of the three European Supervisory Authorities (EBA, EIOPA and ESMA – ESAs) delivered today to the European Commission (EC) the Final Report, including the draft Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS), on the content, methodologies and presentation of disclosures under the EU...

The European Supervisory Authorities - ESAs (the European Banking Authority, the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority and the European Securities and Markets Authority) submitted today to the European Commission the draft Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) on amendments to the...

The European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA) launched today an interactive European map of national financial education websites. The map is targeted to consumers who will have the opportunity to explore information about financial education in an interactive way. The...

The European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA) published today its Consumer Trends Report with a risk heat-map providing a snapshot of the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on the insurance and pension sector from a consumer protection perspective as of 30 June 2020.Despite initial...

The Joint Committee of the three European Supervisory Authorities (EBA, EIOPA and ESMA - ESAs) launched today a public consultation to amend the Implementing Regulations on the mapping of credit assessments of External Credit Assessment Institutions (ECAIs) for credit risk. The amendments are...

The European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA) published today its annual Report on the use of capital add-ons during 2019. The objective of the capital add-on measure is ensure that the regulatory capital requirements reflect the risk profile of the undertaking or of the group...

The European Insurance and Occupational Pension Authority (EIOPA) launched today a public consultation on open insurance, focused on access to and sharing of insurance-related data. In its Discussion Paper, EIOPA explores questions on whether and how far insurance value chains should be ‘opened’...

The European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA) published today the second paper in a series of papers on the methodological principles of insurance stress testing. The Methodological Paper is a follow-up to the consultation with stakeholders and focuses on the liquidity...

The European Supervisory Authorities - ESAs (the European Banking Authority, the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority and the European Securities and Markets Authority) submitted today to the European Commission the final Report on the draft Implementing Technical Standards (ITS)...

The Joint Board of Appeal of the European Supervisory Authorities (ESAs – European Banking Authority, European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority, and European Securities and Markets Authority) published today its decision in relation to an alleged non-application of Union law by eight...

The European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA) issued today a call for experts to join a Practitioners Network on Pension Tracking Systems (Network) to strengthen and complement EIOPA's expertise with regard to the internet-based applications that provide citizens with an...

The Joint Board of Appeal of the European Supervisory Authorities (ESAs – European Banking Authority, European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority, and European Securities and Markets Authority) unanimously decided to dismiss the appeal brought by the credit rating agency Scope Ratings...

On 5 March 2019, the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA) and all national competent authorities (NCAs) of the European Economic Area (EEA) with competencies in insurance agreed memoranda of understanding (MoUs) with the Bank of England in its capacity as the Prudential...

A call for expression of interest by the European Commission for the appointment of members of the ESA’s Board of Appeal for the financial services sector has been launched.Closing date for applications to the European Commission is 8 February 2021.Go to the call

The European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA) published today a consultation on the Supervisory Statement on Own Risk Solvency Assessment (ORSA) in the context of COVID-19.The statement promotes convergence by guiding undertakings through common supervisory expectations on the...

The European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA) published today its December Financial Stability Report that sheds light on the financial stability risks in the European insurance and pension sector.Although financial markets have gradually stabilised after the initial sharp...