EIOPA published today its May 2024 Insurance Risk Dashboard, which shows that risks in the EU’s insurance sector are stable and overall at medium levels, with pockets of vulnerabilities stemming from market uncertainty and potential risks in the real estate sector.

Monthly update of the symmetric adjustment of the equity capital charge for Solvency II – end-April 2024

EIOPA publishes monthly technical information for Solvency II Relevant Risk-Free Interest Rate Term Structures – end-April 2024

The European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA) published today the second edition of its Occupational Pensions Risk Dashboard, which shows that the exposure of Institutions for occupational retirement provisions (IORPs) to market & asset return risks remains at a high level.

EIOPA published today the results of its Peer Review on the supervision of the Prudent Person Principle under Solvency II. The review focused primarily on the supervision of investments in non-traditional and complex assets, including derivatives, and the use of such assets in unit-linked contracts.

EIOPA published today a report in which it analyses the level of digitalisation in the European insurance sector. The findings show a broad spectrum of practices in the market and point to substantial differences in the digital readiness of individual insurers.

The European Supervisory Authorities issued their Spring 2024 Joint Committee update on risks and vulnerabilities in the EU financial system. The risk update shows that risks remain elevated in a context of slowing growth, an uncertain interest rate environment and ongoing geopolitical tensions.

The European Supervisory Authorities (EBA, EIOPA and ESMA – the ESAs) launched today a public consultation on the draft Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) on the conduct of oversight activities in relation to the joint examination teams under the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA).

The European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA), the European Banking Authority (EBA) and the European Central Bank (ECB) have set up an alliance for common governance and collaboration in developing and maintaining the Data Point Model (DPM) Standards.

EIOPA published today a report analyzing how insurance undertakings in the EU implemented the new insurance accounting standard IFRS 17 as well as the synergies and differences in the calculation of insurance liabilities with the Solvency II framework.

The European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA) published today the results of its comparative study on the modelling of market and credit risk in internal models based on year-end 2022 data.

The European Supervisory Authorities today announced that they will launch a voluntary exercise for the collection of the registers of information of contractual arrangements on the use of ICT third-party service providers by the financial entities.

The European Supervisory Authorities (EBA, EIOPA and ESMA - ESAs) today published three vacancy notices in the context of the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA).

Monthly update of the symmetric adjustment of the equity capital charge for Solvency II – end-March 2024

EIOPA publishes monthly technical information for Solvency II Relevant Risk-Free Interest Rate Term Structures – end-March 2024

The European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA) published today its supervisory statement on the supervision of reinsurance concluded with third-country reinsurers.

EIOPA launched today a public consultation on reassessing natural catastrophe risks in the standard formula. EIOPA’s review of the parameters aims to better capture the risks stemming from perils such as earthquake, flood, hail and windstorm.

EIOPA is launching today its 2024 stress test in which it subjects insurers in the European Economic Area to a hypothetical scenario of severe but plausible adverse developments in financial and economic conditions. This year’s exercise envisions a re-intensification of geopolitical tensions.

EIOPA published the calculation of the Ultimate Forward Rate (UFR) applicable as of 1 January 2025. This parameter of the methodology to derive EIOPA’s risk-free interest rate term structures will remain unchanged at 3.30% for the euro.