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EIOPA, Unit-linked Insurance and Polish Product Intervention: A Silent Regulatory Revolution?
When the Polish financial market supervisor Komisja Nadzoru Finansowego (KNF) notified its intention to prohibit certain unit-linked insurance...
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The Dutch Act on Recovery and Resolution of Insurers in the Context of EU and International Developments
Recently, the Dutch legislator chose to update and reinforce the recovery and resolution regime for insurance companies and reinsurance companies...
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Insurance Outsourcing: A Legal Analysis
Outsourcing plays an important role in the operation of insurance and reinsurance companies. This article aims to define the legal conditions of...
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Recovery and Resolution of Insurance Companies and Director’s Duties
In this chapter, largely finalised before the presentation of a legislative proposal for a European Insurance Recovery and Resolution Directive, on...
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Equivalence and Insurance
The concept of equivalence is present in various forms in the Solvency II framework, the EU prudential regulatory framework for insurance and...
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The Algorithmic Future of Insurance Supervision in the EU: A Reality Check
Recent developments in FinTech and RegTech marked the EU’s pivot towards a digitally driven Capital Markets Union and a concomitant algorithmic turn...
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The Breach of Union Law Procedure and the European Supervisory Agencies (ESAs): An Effective Tool Suffering from an Expectation Gap
The establishment of the European Supervisory Agencies (ESAs) in 2010 by the European Union (EU) had two main objectives: to help develop a Single...
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Addressing the Flaws of the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation: Moving from Disclosures to Labelling and Sustainability Due Diligence
The EU Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) establishes disclosure requirements to tackle greenwashing and ensure transparency for...
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Insurance-Based Investment Products: Regulatory Responses and Policy Issues
The chapter aims to analyse the recent reform of the EU regulatory framework as regards insurance-based investment products (IBIPs). The current...
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Transparency in Insurance Regulation and Supervisory Law of Germany
Increasing transparency is a key element of the still relatively new EU supervisory system that has been implemented in Germany through a fundamental...
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The digital operational resilience act: challenges and some reflections on the adequacy of Europe’s architecture for financial supervision
The paper critically analyses the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) within the European Union (EU) with respect to challenges such as...
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Business as (Un-) Usual
The advent of COVID-19 had tremendous effects in Germany, as elsewhere if not probably everywhere. However, the COVID crisis brought to light...
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Grundlagen zur Versicherungsaufsicht
Versicherungsaufsicht ist eine „Staatsaufsicht (…) über Versicherungsunternehmen“252. Ihre umfassende Ausgestaltung strebt eine vollumfängliche...
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Fazit: Offene Problemfelder und Lösungsansätze
In den vorangegangenen Kapiteln wurde aufgezeigt, warum, mit welcher Motivation und wie die Versicherungswirtschaft in Deutschland reguliert und...
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Impact of Covid-19 on Travel and Health Insurance
The aim of this chapter is to analyze the impact of Covid-19 on the two types of non-life insurance most affected by the sanitary crisis: health...
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Ausgewählte Regulierungstatbestände und ihre ökonomische Würdigung
Im Folgenden werden ausgewählte Regulierungsprojekte mithilfe der zuvor entwickelten Kriterien analysiert und gewürdigt. Im Zuge der ökonomischen...
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The Insurance Sector’s Contribution to the Sustainable Development Goals: A Story Worth Telling?
To remain competitive in the increasingly demanding and diverse global marketplace of the twenty-first century, some insurers have chosen to move...
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The Reality of the Promised Increase in Customer Protection Under the Insurance Distribution Directive
This chapter examines whether the rules regarding Insurance Product Information Documents mandated in Article 20 of the Insurance Distribution...
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The Future of Equivalence in the EU Financial Sector
The future of equivalence in the EU financial sector does not look all that bright. Granting third-country entities access to the EU financial...
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The European Ombudsman’s role in access to documents
The right of public access to EU documents was formally established 30 years ago, and given widespread effect through legislation in 2001. The...