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FSA Retail Conduct Risk Outlook 2012

March, 2012

The FSA has published its Retail Conduct Risk Outlook (RCRO) for 2012. The RCRO sets out the FSA’s assessment of the 15 most significant retail conduct risks for the coming 18 months. These are risks arising from a firm’s conduct in their direct relationships with consumers, or where they have a direct duty to retail customers. The RCRO covers the prevailing macroeconomic and environmental factors impacting firms and consumers as well as the identified key risks.

Attached files: FSA_Financial_Conduct_Risk_Outlook_2012_INSURANCE.pdf, FSA_Financial_Conduct_Risk_Outlook_2012_FS.pdf, FSA_Financial_Conduct_Risk_Outlook_2012_FULL.pdf

CII Thinkpiece 67: Insurance Regulation in 2012: Finding Solutions to "the British Dilemma"

January, 2012

Financial Secretary Mark Hoban MP summarises the UK Treasury's latest work in insurance regulation, including the UK regulatory reforms, Solvency II, and response to the European Court's gender ruling.

Attached files: TP67_Hoban_Insurance_Regulation_11Jan2012.pdf

FSA - General Insurance newsletter published

January, 2012

In addition to a welcome note, the contents of the Newsletter cover the following topics:

FSA – Life assurance newsletter

January, 2012

The Newsletter covers the following topics...

The regulation of insurance companies

January, 2012

This fact file follows on from the earlier version, written by Tony Wiltshire. The FSA regulates UK based insurers; other European firms operating in the UK are regulated by their home country regulator. The FSA is authorised to regulate the market by the Financial Services Markets Act 2000.

Insurance in the single market

January, 2012

By 1994, the European Union (EU) had established an internal market for insurance as a result of its adoption two years earlier of the third Council directives on non-life and on life insurance. These completed the work of the first two directives in each field and introduced, with effect from 1 July 1994, a true "European passport" for insurance services. Although this provided the framework within which companies must work in a European context, it did not however complete the picture ...

Solvency II - Revised implementation date

October, 2011

FSA has revised its implementation assumptions in light of the discussions in Europe about the splitting of the implementation dates for Solvency II...

CII EU Update 12: European Regulatory Plans: Whither 2012?

July, 2011

EU update reflecting latest developments concerning Solvency II, mortgages, professional qualifications and the stress tests by the new insurance and banking supervisory authorities.

Attached files: European_Financial_Services_Update_12_July2011.pdf

Insurance accounting (general business)

April, 2011

In the UK, insurance companies generally have to prepare accounts that either comply with UK Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (UK GAAP) or International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). All companies whose shares are quoted on a main stock exchange have to prepare their accounts in compliance with IFRS and. othersOther companies,, including the subsidiaries of quoted companies, are allowed to use either UK GAAP or IFRS. In addition, UK companies have to comply with the Companies Act 2006, which sets the overriding requirement that accounts have to ...

Asset and liability management handbook

March, 2011

In recent years, quantitative methods for asset and liability management strategies have developed and become more widely used. This handbook brings together state-of-the-art quantitative decision models for asset and liability management in respect of pension funds, insurance companies and banks

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Solvency II: a guide to the new regime

Published by PriceWaterhouseCoopers. London: PriceWaterhouseCoopers, 2011.

This book can be borrowed from the library. To check the availability of this title, please visit the library catalogue.

Solvency II handbook : developing ERM frameworks in insurance and reinsurance companies

Edited by Marcelo Cruz. (London: Risk Books, 2009).

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Challenges of Solvency II implementation: preparing for IT implementation of Solvency II regulations in insurance companies

By Artem Rusalovskiy.

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May, 2012

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CII Thinkpiece 75: Converging Ideas: Building a European-Wide Supervisory Culture in Insurance and Pensions

May, 2012

Gabriel Bernadino, Chair of the new European Insurance & Occupational Pensions Authority provides a perspective on the pan-EU supervisor’s first year of operation.

CII Thinkpiece 74: From Brussels with Love: A Perspective on Developing Insurance Regulation at the EU Level

May, 2012

Karel van Hulle, the European Commission’s lead official on insurance & occupational pensions, offers his own strictly personal view of insurance regulation in the post-financial crisis world.

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