10 July 2015Insurance

Insurers’ capital level appropriate: BoE

Concerns that the Bank of England (BoE) will use Solvency II to increase levels of capitalisation across the insurance sector are unfounded, according to Sam Woods, executive director for insurance supervision at the BoE.

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