Friday, November 13, 2009

Insurers relieved as EU regulators pull back


Big European insurers breathed more easily on Wednesday after the sector’s regulators reined back from a very conservative interpretation of the new capital regime, which companies claimed could have required them to raise billions of additional euros unnecessarily.

In a letter to the European Commission, the Committee of European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Supervisors said it had “carefully considered” comments from the industry, advisers and Brussels itself.

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