Insurance

  • Taxonomy alignment of EU insurers and pension fund assets around 10%, EIOPA says

    20 June 2025
  • IDF to launch insurance-funded adaptation blended finance fund

    09 June 2025

    From Jennifer Forrest in Monaco

  • Tokio Marine's green underwriting specialist targets $1bn revenues

    30 May 2025

    A green insurance specialist launched by Tokio Marine is targeting $1 billion in revenues within five years, as businesses decarbonise or transition to a greener economy.

  • Generali returns with 'unique and distinctive' sustainability cat bond

    30 May 2025

    Italian insurer Generali has sponsored its second €200 million ($226 million) 'sustainability' catastrophe (cat) bond, replacing its ground-breaking 'green' insurance-linked security (ILS) a year after it expanded its framework.

  • Tokio Marine launches 'green transformation' underwriting business

    28 May 2025
  • 'World first' jaguar insurance launched

    22 May 2025
  • US withdrawal from Paris Agreement to increase risk to insurers, EIOPA warns

    07 May 2025

    The EU's insurers face increased sustainability-related risk exposure in the next 12 months, linked to the US withdrawals from the Paris Agreement and the World Health Organization (WHO), according to the EU's pensions and insurance regulator.

  • UK's climate risk management proposals are a fundamental regulatory shift, say experts

    02 May 2025

    Consultation paper represents a "complete rewrite" of existing rules for insurers

  • Insurers 'investing billions in fossil fuel companies'

    24 April 2025

    Insurers are "complicit in climate collapse", a campaign group has warned, with five of the largest insurers investing upwards of $6.5 billion in fossil fuels.

  • Low Carbon and Paratus partner for 'world-first' energy price risk policy

    09 April 2025

    Energy price risk (re)insurer Paratus and renewable energy company Low Carbon have partnered for what has been described as a 'world-first' insurance policy to mitigate energy price volatility.

  • Innovative parametric insurance product helps protect against flooding in Togo

    31 March 2025
  • EIOPA says Omnibus means it needs to delay insurers' sustainability risk standards

    13 March 2025

    The EU's insurance supervisor has asked for a delay to its work on standards for insurers' sustainability risk disclosures, arguing that the proposed Omnibus package creates uncertainty that makes its work harder.

  • BlueOrchard backs extreme weather risk solution provider

    11 March 2025
  • First climate insurance payout for coffee farmers

    17 February 2025
  • Raise insurers' capital requirements for fossil fuel assets, EU urged

    12 February 2025
  • Tweak Solvency II to make it easier to invest outside OECD, says Banque de France

    11 February 2025

    A senior representative of the Banque de France has called for the European capital adequacy regime for insurers to be amended to allow more investment in non-OECD countries.