Publications

Key objectives of the stress test exercise Mr Bernardino, today EIOPA published the results of its fourth Insurance Stress Test. What are the key objectives?The key objectives of this year’s stress test is to assess the resilience of insurance groups throughout Europe to a set of severe but...

Insurers struggle with the combination of capital requirements and low interest rates. “Interest rates could remain low for years”, thinks Gabriel Bernardino, who is Chairman of EIOPA, their European regulator. Pension funds tend to like EIOPA, because it is less strict on interest rates than the...

In 2018, the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA) continued to play an essential role in strengthening supervision of the European insurance and pensions sectors.The European Court of Auditors who concluded that EIOPA makes an ‘important contribution to a common...

Go to the event page to see all the summaries and presentations of the 4th Sustainable Finance Roundtablethat took place in December 2020.

​OPSG Feedback Statement on EIOPA's questionnaire on Consumer trends

​OPSG Feedback Statement on EIOPA's questionnaire on Consumer trends

What are the main challenges for national pensions systems?Pension systems, including national pensions systems, face severe challenges of an ageing population. For example, by 2020, one quarter of Europeans will be older than 60. While population ageing accelerates, population growth is slowing...

It is a great pleasure to welcome all of you this afternoon to the first EIOPA Workshop on Cyber Insurance.Great to see that we have full house and many of you followed our invitation or wanted to attend! I learnt we have in addition around 30 participants following the discussions remotely via...

​IRSG Response to EIOPA's Discussion Paper on System Risk and Macroprudential Policy