Solvency II has been underway since the adoption of Solvency I back in 2002. It is slated to become law in October of this year and go into effect, in part, in January of 2013.

In 2000, the European Commission initiated a fundamental and wide-ranging review of the overall financial position of insurers, the Solvency II project. The Commission has now almost reached the first ...

A proposal to calculate the minimum amount of capital an insurance company must hold under the Solvency II directive, as a percentage of a risk-based measure used largely for a firm's own calculations ...

Under . Solvency II, insurers will need enough capital to have 99.5 per cent confidence they could cope with the worst expected losses over a year. ... If an insurer gets close to the MCR, ...

As is well-known, under the Solvency II regime the capital requirements for insurers will consist of a minimum capital requirement and a solvency capital requirement, supplemented by an 'own risk and ...

The implementation of Solvency II could result in a minimum capital requirement increase of 62% for United Kingdom insurers, according to EMB, a UK-based actuarial consulting firm.EMB studied 49 ...