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24 Apr 2013
OPINION: A European court ruling on the way insurance premiums are taxed will not only burden insurers with increased costs and extra work but will undermine the EU's attempts to create a single market for insurance.
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11 Apr 2013
The latest estimated cost to UK defined benefit (DB) pension schemes of complying with proposed EU-wide solvency requirements is in line with the UK Government's "worst case scenario", the Pensions Minister has said.
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11 Apr 2013
Businesses are expected to spend more than $25 billion this year through arranging for third-parties to perform finance and accounting processing tasks on their behalf, according to new research.
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23 Jan 2013
A new "expert group" will advise the European Commission on whether the cross-border trade of insurance products is being inhibited because of existing EU laws on insurance contracts
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14 Jan 2013
The growth in the market for specialist data risk insurance will continue if proposed changes to rules governing the international transfer of personal information are implemented, an expert has said.
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09 Oct 2012
Insurers must develop "simple" early warning indicators which, if breached, will trigger "an immediate supervisory response" as part of their preparations for new Europe-wide risk management and solvency standards, the Financial Services Authority (FSA)...
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21 Sep 2012
Insurance company LV= has announced that it is to offer "gender neutral rates" on the insurance cover it provides from the beginning of December, three weeks before EU law requires it to do so.
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30 Aug 2012
Stricter European capital requirements intended to ensure the stability of pension and insurance funds could have the "perverse consequence" of discouraging those funds from investing in infrastructure, the Labour Party has warned.
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19 Jul 2012
The Government will not initially extend a European ban on the use of gender as a risk factor in insurance pricing to occupational pension plans despite industry fears this will lead to a "two-tiered" annuity market, it has confirmed.
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18 Jul 2012
A lack of agreement by European lawmakers on the text of strict new solvency rules for insurers could result in further delays to the implementation of the new regime, the industry has warned.
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