EU authorities need to improve insurance risk models, Eiopa warns

2018 stress tests show weaknesses in models used by national authorities, report says

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The European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority

The European Union’s national regulators must improve the quality of the models they use to assess insurance firms’ risk levels, a European supervisory authority says.

The European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (Eiopa) gave the warning in a set of initial recommendations based on its 2018 stress tests of the insurance sector. These tests also reveal weaknesses in the resilience of some European countries’ insurance firms.

Eiopa says participants in the stress tests said the

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