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Nearly 20% of global financial institution ratings are currently influenced by governance risk according to an analysis of new Environmental, Social & Governance (ESG) Relevance Scores...
Interim solutions and contingency planning with respect to derivatives and insurance claims are reducing some significant risks a "no-deal" Brexit would present to the European financial services sector...
Fitch Ratings has published a summary highlighting the main themes discussed at this year's Reinsurance Rendez-Vous held in Monte Carlo. We have revised our outlook for the global reinsurance sector to...
Typhoon Jebi, which is reportedly the strongest typhoon to have made landfall in Japan in 25 years, will not undermine the financial soundness of Japanese non-life insurance groups, given their appropriate...
Underwriting results for Japan's top-four non-life insurers remained strong but overseas weather-related losses (including US hurricanes) affected their results in the financial year ended March 2018 (FYE18), says Fitch Ratings in a new report...
Japan’s top-four non-life insurers’ average ‘combined ratio’ remained strong but deteriorated to 95% in the financial year ended March 2018 (FYE18), affected by weather-related loss events including US hurricanes...
Fitch Ratings says it expects the Nigerian insurance market to return to real gross written premium (GWP) growth in 2018 as favourable fundamentals support long-term development. The insurance industry in Nigeria declined in real terms in 2016 as high inflation eroded modest nominal GWP growth...
The collapse of UK construction company Carillion highlights the importance of contract risk management and of maintaining margins for companies in the European engineering and construction (E&C) sector, Fitch Ratings says...
Tighter regulations on public-private partnerships (PPP) released by the Chinese authorities in late 2017 are in keeping with recent efforts to contain risks and increase transparency in the state-owned enterprise (SOE) and local...
Hong Kong's new risk-based capital (RBC) regime, which is under development by the new independent insurance regulator, Insurance Authority (IA), will better measure insurers' capital strength, says Fitch Ratings.
