The Standard Formula Podcast | Solvency II Back to Basics: Technical Provisions
The Standard Formula Podcast | Investment Rules for Insurers and Reinsurers
The Standard Formula Podcast | Solvency II Back to Basics: Third Country Branches and Cross-Border Provision of Services
Standard Formula Podcast | Reinsurance and Risk Transfer: Risk Mitigation Under the Solvency II Regime
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A warm welcome to the Summer edition of Conyers Coverage. The whirlwind that is the Cayman Islands (re)insurance industry continues to blow with gusto! To keep you updated on recent developments, we include various items from...more
Arguably the most notable takeaways from the [Re]Connect conference were the updates on the positive progress the Cayman Islands has made in its quest toward (hopefully) making a formal application to secure Qualified...more
In recent years, demographic changes and macroeconomic factors have led to significant growth in insurance markets. Within insurance markets, a much more active market in trading “back-books” of insurance liabilities has...more
On April 24, 2024, the New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) published Proposed Rule Making for the 13th Amendment to Insurance Regulation 17, 20 and 20-A (Proposed Amendment), which purports to implement...more
2023 was a fairly gloomy year for global M&A activity and the insurance sector did not emerge unscathed, recording its lowest deals count since 20201. The good news, however, is that insurance M&A activity appears poised for...more
The Conyers insurance team regularly assists clients looking to convert their licensed insurer into a segregated portfolio company (“SPC”) in order to separate their programs by cedents or lines of business into segregated...more
Our insurance finance practice continues to grow at pace and is now regularly called on by clients to assist on credit facilities being put in place for Cayman licenced insurers. Traditionally the transactions and facilities...more
This edition of The Standard Formula looks at the updated proposals set out in the consultation paper published by the Bermuda Monetary Authority (BMA) on July 28, 2023, which relate to the BMA’s plan to enhance the...more
Part and parcel of practising law in the Cayman Islands regularly involves dispelling commonly held but mistaken myths around Cayman as an international jurisdiction. One such misconception which inexplicably persists in some...more
A warm welcome to our latest edition of Conyers Coverage. It’s been a dizzying year to date for the Cayman Islands (re)insurance industry, so it’s time for some updates and insights. The momentum is real and the pipeline...more
On July 5, the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) released a statement on the Net-Zero Insurance Alliance’s (NZIA) progress towards net-zero targets. The NZIA is convened by the UN Principles for Sustainable Insurance (PSI) and...more
The Government of Alberta’s initiatives in support of reinsurance and captive insurance in the province, discussed in our post of April 20, 2022, will soon be fully in force. Already in force, as of May 31, 2022, are...more
Happy New Year and a very warm welcome to our sixth issue of Conyers Coverage. We’re starting the New Year by looking at new trends in InsurTech via a Q&A with Isaac Espinoza, Managing Director of Root Reinsurance...more
The Cayman Islands Monetary Authority (“the Authority”) recently published a Private Sector Consultation Paper with a draft Rule and Statement of Guidance on Reinsurance Arrangements (the “draft Rule & SOG”). The draft Rule &...more
What a year it has been since our last Insurance Bulletin in March 2020. Although the full impact of Covid-19 on the re/insurance industry remains unclear, the need to retain capital to meet potential losses has contributed...more
UK-EU MoU on regulatory cooperation in financial services - HM Treasury has announced that technical discussions on the text of the memorandum of understanding (MoU) on UK-EU regulatory cooperation in financial services have...more
Insurance carriers will find the following topics, recently discussed at the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC), relevant to capital management, financial risk, solvency and similar “prudential” issues,...more
Insights from Latham’s flagship event: Managing the risk and promise of digitisation in financial services. In a bid to keep pace with rapid advances in cloud adoption across financial services, regulators have published a...more
On May 14, 2016, Pennsylvania issued Bulletin No. 16-819, advising that the Pennsylvania Insurance Department amended Chapter 161 of the Pennsylvania Insurance Code related to the requirements for qualified and certified...more
In This Issue: - Medicare Releases Set of Payment Rules, Physician Fee Schedule on Deck - Implementation of the Affordable Care Act - Federal Regulatory Initiatives - Congressional Initiatives - Other...more