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The ESAs (EBA, EIOPA, and ESMA) have launched a public consultation on draft Joint Guidelines for ESG stress testing. These guidelines aim to standardize how banking and insurance sectors integrate environmental, social, and governance risks into supervisory stress tests. Key aspects include:
ESG Stress Testing Framework: Establishes a common approach for developing methodologies and standards across the EU's financial system.
Guidance on Stress Tests: Covers design, features, and organizational arrangements, including expertise, data management, and scenario analysis timelines.
Long-term Approach: Accommodates future advancements and data improvements, promoting consistency and effectiveness.
The consultation runs until September 19, 2025, allowing stakeholders to provide feedback on the draft guidelines.

This study examines how European insurance companies influence mutual fund stability, particularly during periods of significant net outflows. Utilizing Solvency II and Lipper/Eikon data, the study reveals that insurers exhibit contrarian trading behavior, purchasing fund shares when other investors divest, especially in fixed-income funds. This behavior is more pronounced for affiliated funds. The paper also finds that insurers' financial health, indicated by solvency ratios, impacts their ability to act as contrarian traders; lower solvency ratios correlate with fewer purchases during outflows. Funds with insurer investments demonstrate enhanced resilience, exhibiting lower flow-to-performance sensitivity and reduced flow volatility. The findings suggest insurers can mitigate investor runs, but their stabilizing influence may lessen under systemic stress affecting their own financial health.

Insurance Europe advocates for simplifying EU digital regulations, including the Cybersecurity Act and upcoming digital omnibus initiatives, to alleviate compliance burdens. The organization seeks to reduce overlaps and duplications in cybersecurity reporting, particularly under DORA, GDPR, and other horizontal legislations. They propose aligning cyber reporting mechanisms and centralizing notifications to multiple national agencies. Additionally, Insurance Europe supports stakeholder involvement in cybersecurity certification development, emphasizing that certification should remain voluntary. Concerns have been raised regarding the European Cybersecurity Certification Scheme for Cloud Services (EUCS), specifically regarding a lack of transparency and the inclusion of sovereignty requirements that could limit service provider choice and increase costs for insurers.

This article claims that Generative AI (GenAI) is revolutionizing actuarial science, as demonstrated in four case studies. Large Language Models enhance claims cost prediction by extracting features from unstructured text, reducing errors. Retrieval-Augmented Generation automates market comparisons by processing document data. Fine-tuned, vision-enabled LLMs excel in classifying car damage and extracting contextual details. A multi-agent system autonomously analyzes datasets and generates detailed reports. GenAI also shows promise in automating claims processing, fraud detection, and document compliance verification. Challenges include regulatory compliance, ethical concerns, and technical limitations, emphasizing the need for careful integration of GenAI in insurance workflows.

This study explores how Machiavellianism, a manipulative personality trait, fuels malicious insider behavior through the Fraud Triangle’s elements: pressure, opportunity, and rationalization. Analyzing 768 U.S. employees via PLS-SEM, researchers found Machiavellianism strongly influences all three, with rationalization as the primary driver of unethical intent. The findings highlight rationalization’s role in justifying malicious acts, urging organizations to bolster ethical cultures and accountability to curb insider threats. By linking personality traits to situational factors, the study enhances cybersecurity risk modeling and advocates for behaviorally informed insider threat prevention strategies.

This paper introduces a robust method for evaluating Conditional Value-at-Risk (CVaR) when data distribution can't be simulated. Using rolling data windows as proxies for independent samples, the approach effectively assesses worst-case risk. Applied to Danish fire insurance data, it outperformed traditional DRO (distributional risk optimization) methods—achieving accurate, less conservative estimates in 87% of cases. This advancement enables reliable risk management even with limited tail data. Future research will focus on refining robustness guarantees and integrating extreme value theory into decision-making models involving rare but impactful events.

The report underscores the robustness of Europe’s insurance, reinsurance, and pension sectors despite a volatile macroeconomic environment. Strong capital positions persist, with median Solvency II ratios slightly down but stable. Premium growth surged, with non-life up 8.2% and life at 13.8%. Profitability improved, with median return on assets at 0.7%. However, it points out that risks from exchange rate volatility, elevated interest rates, geopolitical tensions, and cyber threats require vigilant monitoring. It also notes significant US equity exposure, urging caution amid potential market corrections.

The EBA released three final draft technical standards to support the EU Banking Package, enhancing supervisory oversight. These include Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) for calculating the Business Indicator (BI) for operational risk capital, Implementing Technical Standards (ITS) mapping BI to FINREP for consistency, and amended ITS on operational risk reporting. The standards refine BI components, address mergers and disposals, and improve reporting accuracy. Set for adoption, the EBA will release IT tools and a technical package in Q4 2025, with reporting starting March 31, 2026.

EIOPA has published the results of its first EU-coordinated mystery shopping exercise, assessing the sales process for insurance-based investment products (IBIPs) across eight EU member states. While distributors often provided relevant information, areas for improvement were identified in disclosure, transparency, and consumer outcomes. Key findings include inadequate provision of cost information and limited consideration of sustainability preferences. EIOPA Chair Petra Hielkema emphasized the need to explore a more outcome-oriented sales approach, focusing on simple and transparent products that offer value for consumers.

Face à un contexte géopolitique tendu, France Assureurs appelle à réorienter le règlement FIDA pour un partage des données financières et d’assurance plus compétitif, sécurisé et centré sur le client. Trois priorités sont mises en avant : garantir la compétitivité via un déploiement progressif et une sécurité juridique accrue, préserver la souveraineté européenne en excluant les géants non-européens, et répondre aux besoins réels des clients avec un encadrement strict du traitement des données. Malgré des avancées dans les discussions, des ajustements restent nécessaires pour protéger les consommateurs et renforcer la cyber-résilience.