No events. No seminars. No roundtables. 

In short, there are few if any opportunities to exchange information, ideas and insights on how the Covid-19 pandemic will impact insurers’ balance sheets. But we do have the ability to do that digitally, given the wealth of data out there. The trouble is we are all being overwhelmed by information and are having to make huge adjustments to our lives alongside, making it difficult to distil what we really need.

Financial regulators around the world have recognised that the rapid escalation of the crisis caused by the Covid-19 pandemic will require specific regulatory responses. For insurers, many of these have been quite prescriptive, especially on products and the need to ensure customers are treated fairly.

As the UK now moves inexorably towards the exit door from the European Union, reality will kick in says Erik Vynckier, Interim CEO, Foresters Friendly Society.

The final Insurance Investment Exchange seminar of 2019 looked back over 2019 and peered into the crystal ball to see what 2020 may hold for the insurance industry.

The battles lines that have been drawn up over the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority’s review of Solvency II were on display at the pan-European regulators’ recent annual conference in Frankfurt.

In the first of a new series of exclusive interviews for the Insurance Investment Exchange David Worsfold spoke to Con Keating, head of research at Brighton Rock Group.