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8th of February 2012

BMA outlines approach to Solvency II equivalence

Gavin Bradshaw 21/07/2010

The Bermuda Monetary Authority (BMA) has published details of its proposals for achieving regulatory equivalence with the European Union Solvency II Directive, including its Own Risk and Solvency Assessment (ORSA) model.
 
The “Consultation Paper on Commercial Insurer’s Solvency Self Assessment” and “Consultation Paper on Disclosure and Transparency” give details on establishing a Bermuda-specific solvency assessment regime and enhanced disclosure requirements for Bermuda’s largest (re)insurance firms.
 
Jeremy Cox, BMA CEO (pictured) said: “Achieving regulatory equivalence for our insurance framework with major international markets has been a strategic priority for the Authority for some time now. We have set our sights on obtaining broad equivalence for our commercial insurance framework under
Solvency II and we continue to make significant progress in this regard.”
 
The BMA is proposing to introduce a regime that requires commercial insurers to perform an assessment of their own risk and solvency requirements, which it refers to as a Commercial Insurer’s Solvency Self Assessment or CISSA.
 
Under the Insurance Code of Conduct, which came into effect 1 July 2010, all insurers are required to conduct a solvency self-assessment.
 
The BMA also proposes introducing a number of additional qualitative and quantitative public and regulatory disclosure requirements in a phased implementation of the regime.
 
Craig Swan, director, Policy, Research and Risk Assessment said, “The Authority appreciates that international debates on financial regulation are ongoing and that standards are evolving, particularly in the area of disclosure and transparency. Therefore implementing our disclosures regime in phases will afford us the opportunity to keep step with these evolving standards, while allowing us the time to decide upon the most appropriate application of issues being considered by the international bodies.”

Tags: Bermuda, Bermuda Monetary Authority, BMA, EU, European Union, Jeremy Cox, ORSA, Own Risk and Solvency Assessment, Solvency II

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