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19 August 2025 - by Joost Broens, Conor Callaghan, Neil Christy, Lucian Franzky, Francesca Tiozzo, Mirakh Modasia, Joanne Tan, Aoibhin Wood, Daniele Zinicola
We outline the European Commission’s proposed amendments to the Delegated Regulation that underpins the Solvency II Directive.
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10 March 2025 - by Seán McCaw, Sijbo Holtman, Joost Broens
After the amendments to the Solvency II Directive, we expect the immediate transitional impact on Solvency II ratio levels to be manageable.
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14 January 2025 - by Lucian Franzky, Joost Broens, Niels Van der Laan
We review key provisions of EIOPA’s proportionality framework under Solvency II, a regime that aims to reduce the regulatory burden on smaller insurance undertakings.
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21 October 2024 - by Charly Hunsicker, Sijbo Holtman, Joost Broens
Solvency II: We summarize the amendment to the symmetric adjustment of the standard-formula equity-risk module, and provide some other insights.
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22 May 2024 - by Joris Van der Moore, Joost Broens, Sjoerd Brethouwer
Cyber insurance in the Netherlands and beyond faces uncertainty, but the industry predicts that market premiums globally will more than double by 2030.
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24 April 2024 - by Floris Brull, Joost Broens, Sijbo Holtman, Tarik Aouragh
We examine a key question with higher interest rates: How do variations in Solvency II extrapolation methods influence the valuation of insurance liabilities?
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29 February 2024 - by Aisling Barrett, Neil Christy, Joost Broens, Lucian Franzky, Badis Zeghmar, Eliott Pradat, Gillian Tucker
We summarise the proposed changes to the Solvency II Directive issued by the European Council and Parliament.
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09 October 2023 - by Aatman Dattani, Josh Dobiac, Daniel Sharon, Lotte van Delft, David Harris, Stijn Donckers, Ed Morgan, Takanori Hoshino, Joost Broens
With rising rates and high inflation, insurers worldwide need robust frameworks and nimbleness in the once slow moving and stable world of life insurance.
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09 March 2023 - by Maarten Ruissaard, Joost Broens, Freek Zandbergen, Rik van Beers, Sinéad Clarke, Stijn Donckers
We discuss how the increased interest rate environment creates uncertainty, affecting economic scenarios, capital requirements, and stress and scenario testing.
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21 February 2023 - by Maarten Ruissaard, Joost Broens, Freek Zandbergen, Rik van Beers, Stijn Donckers
Changes to UFR drag are not solely driven by the variance in market rates, but also to changes in their level and slope, and a second order extrapolation effect