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preserving financial stability. While the legal, regulatory, and supervisory frameworks for banking and insurance sector have …
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Natural disasters and climate change are existential threats to Grenada, with annual losses from these events estimated at 1.7 percent of GDP. Grenada has proactively pursued resilience-building, with its Climate Change Policy and National Adaptation Plan providing detailed roadmaps for...
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The U.K. financial sector is globally systemic, open, and complex. It has weathered the COVID-19 pandemic fittingly, thanks to the post-GFC reforms, a proactive macroprudential stance, and an effective multipronged response to maintain financial stability. Brexit uncertainties are being handled...
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The economy recovered strongly in 2021, following an unprecedented real output contraction in 2020. However, the outlook remains precarious amidst projected future low growth, high unemployment and adverse debt dynamics, and the recovery pace is unlikely to be sustained. Ample buffers allowed...
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This note provides an update and assessment of developments in insurance supervision since 2014. It is part of the 2020 …, 2019. It has not been updated for the impact of recent global events associated with the COVID-19 pandemic. The insurance … sector is large, especially long-term (life) insurance, highly international and has been growing steadily. The long …
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The Norwegian insurance sector is well-capitalized. In recent years, the authorities have taken steps to recapitalize …
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Italian insurance sector since the last assessment concluded in 2013. The mission conducted a target review focusing on the … weaknesses without a full assessment of Italy's observance with the International Association of Insurance Supervisors (IAIS …) Insurance Core Principles (ICPs). Implementation of the European Union (EU) Solvency II Directive in 2016 has significantly …
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This paper provides an assessment of the insurance sector in the United Kingdom. The United Kingdom has one of the … deepest, most developed insurance markets in the world. Insurance penetration is 50 percent higher than in the European Union … or other advanced economies, and the expenditure per capita in insurance amounts to USD 5,429 as compared with USD 3 …
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Financial Sector Assessment Program; Technical Note-Insurance Regulation and Supervision …
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This Technical Note on Insurance Sector Regulation and Supervision provides an update and an assessment of the … development of regulation and supervision of the Polish insurance sector since an assessment concluded in 2012. The note focuses … insurer, poses supervisory challenges. In respect to the selected other areas of the insurance framework that were reviewed …
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