25 June 2014Insurance

Global capital standard plans are misguided: ABIR

Plans by the International Association of Insurance Supervisors (IAIS) prompted by the Financial Stability Board (FSB) to develop a global insurance capital standard (ICS) could be misguided and risk creating a costly and potentially contradictory level of regulation for the insurance industry that would achieve little.

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