This paper analyzes a bivariate optimal dividend problem for an insurer with two collaborating business lines under a diffusion model with correlated Brownian motions. The framework incorporates dividend payouts, proportional reinsurance, and inter-line capital transfers to prevent bankruptcy. The authors provide complete analytical solutions, identifying three scenarios with closed-form value functions and optimal strategies. Results show a threshold dividend policy, with the more important line having a lower threshold. Optimal reinsurance decreases with aggregate reserves and stabilizes after a switching point. Correlation between lines affects reinsurance, and the capital transfer rule is consistent across scenarios.
The draft strengthens governance arrangements, clarifies management body roles, and enhances oversight of internal control, risk management, and compliance functions. It incorporates ICT and security risk management in line with DORA, requiring institutions to integrate digital operational resilience into governance frameworks. The revisions also address anti-money laundering, conflicts of interest, and gender-neutral remuneration. Stakeholders can submit feedback until October 2025, with final guidelines to replace the 2017 version.
There is an increasing AI use in insurance—50% in non-life, 24% in life. To address emerging risks, undertakings must clarify supervisory responsibilities, maintain full accountability, and implement proportionate governance. Risk managers should conduct impact-based assessments, emphasizing data sensitivity, consumer impact, and financial exposure. Strong governance includes fairness, data quality, transparency, cybersecurity, and human oversight. Oversight extends to third-party providers, with contractual safeguards required. AI systems must align with existing frameworks like ERM and POG, ensuring traceability, explainability, and resilience throughout their lifecycle. Supervisory convergence across the sector remains a key regulatory goal.
This study explores how natural disasters challenge traditional risk management and insurance mechanisms. Researchers developed a three-strategy evolutionary game model to examine the competition among formal index insurance, informal risk sharing, and non-insurance. The model incorporates insurance company profits to aid optimal pricing. Findings suggest that basis risk and loss ratios strongly influence insurance adoption. Low basis risk and high loss ratios favor index insurance, while moderate loss ratios lead to informal risk sharing. Low loss ratios often result in no insurance uptake. Accurately estimating risk aversion and risk sharing ratios is essential for forecasting index insurance market trends.
The position paper underscores insurance’s central role in financial resilience, noting that roughly 90% of EU consumers hold at least one insurance product. It urges that the new Agenda:
• formally recognize insurance as a strategic enabler of economic and social stability;
• simplify and align regulation to insurance’s specific characteristics;
• support innovation in digitalization and AI with coherent rules;
• streamline consumer disclosures and enhance financial and insurance literacy to aid informed decision‑making.
This Final Report (EBA/RTS/2025/03) presents draft Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) under the Capital Requirements Regulation (CRR) III. It addresses three mandates:
• An operational risk taxonomy with Level 1 event types, Level 2 categories and supplementary attributes (including ESG and ICT risks), to standardise how institutions classify loss events.
• Criteria for deeming the annual‑operational‑risk loss calculation “unduly burdensome” for certain institutions, allowing temporary waivers.
• Rules for adjusting loss‑data sets when firms merge or acquire entities, including currency conversion, re‑classification and fallback proxies.
Le rapport « 2025 stress test of euro area banks » du 1er août 2025 détaille l'exercice de test de résistance mené par la Banque centrale européenne (BCE) pour évaluer la capacité des banques de la zone euro à résister à des chocs économiques et financiers. Cet exercice projette l'évolution de la position de capital des institutions sur trois ans, de 2025 à 2027, sous un scénario de base et un scénario défavorable hypothétique, ce dernier impliquant une aggravation des tensions géopolitiques. Le document analyse l'impact de ces scénarios sur les risques de crédit, de marché et opérationnels, ainsi que sur la rentabilité des banques, intégrant également les nouvelles règles du Règlement sur les exigences de fonds propres 3 (CRR3). Le rapport conclut que le secteur bancaire de la zone euro est globalement robuste, tout en soulignant la nécessité d'une planification prudente du capital face aux incertitudes actuelles.
𝗘𝗜𝗢𝗣𝗔 released its July 2025 𝙄𝙣𝙨𝙪𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙚 𝙍𝙞𝙨𝙠 𝘿𝙖𝙨𝙝𝙗𝙤𝙖𝙧𝙙, offering an assessment of the European insurance sector's financial health as of Q1 2025 Solvency II data and Q2 2025 market data. Overall, the report indicates a stable risk landscape at a medium level for the European insurance sector, demonstrating notable resilience. However, it also highlights a negative outlook in certain areas over the next year, influenced by complex global dynamics such as geopolitical tensions and market volatility. Specifically, market risks due to fixed income volatility and cyber and digitalization risks are identified as growing concerns, necessitating continued vigilance despite general stability.
A joint initiative by the American Bankers Association and the Financial Services Coordinating Council supports expanding cloud deployment while aiming to mitigate associated risks. Published July 29, 2025, the ABA Banking Journal outlines collaboration among federal regulators, banks and major cloud providers (AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, IBM). It highlights key risks—such as CSP‑related operational incidents, misconfigurations under shared‑responsibility models, monitoring gaps, tool and talent deficiencies, and market concentration. The article details a voluntary 16‑section reference tool covering audit, supply‑chain risk, contractual provisions, operational resilience and more. It aims to enhance transparency, cyber‑resilience and regulatory alignment in cloud adoption.
The guide emphasizes a foundational set of principles that apply across all risk types. These include robust governance, comprehensive documentation, sound data management, and effective model risk management.