David Walker

• Comment - Is BaFin's argument against capital cuts for green activities, sustainable?

  15 May 2024

  Mark Branson told the media this week: "No compromises when it comes to calibrating our regulations"

• BaFin president warns against lower capital requirements for sustainability

  15 May 2024

  Mark Branson also acknowledges BaFin's recent slap-on-the-wrist from EIOPA

• External inflows to PIMCO and AllianzGI already beat Allianz's full-year goals

  15 May 2024

  PIMCO and AllianzGI now run €1.8trn of other people's money

• Curious and curiouser - the quirky and weird risks, that Lloyd's syndicate CIOs are backing

  15 May 2024

  Got a satellite, a nuclear reactor, a Degas, or a body part to insure? A Lloyd's syndicate will do that - and back the risk in its GA. David Walker peers inside Lloyd's cabinet of insured curiosities

  

• South Korean insurers to help lend KRW1trn to struggling project finance sector

  14 May 2024

  Financial Services Commission announced various measures for non-viable projects

• Chart of the Week - A Eurovision of how insurers' general accounts are composed, by EEA country

  10 May 2024

  Significant diversity in allocations appears, across EIOPA's 30 national industries

• Sumitomo and SBI Life fund buys into non-cognitive skills promotion

  10 May 2024

  Investee Energize will help develop businesses for childhood education

• Dai-ichi Life gives coffee trading platform a shot in the arm

  10 May 2024

  Investment is 'responsible', but insurer expects "high returns" too

• German life consolidators reveal lapse and liquidity risk details in latest SFCRs

  08 May 2024

  All life undertakings discussed experiences, mitigations and examinations of surrenders, in 2023

• Core competency - Lloyd's syndicates go outsourcing, and not just for peripheral assets

  08 May 2024

  Lloyd's syndicates hire external help for the core of their general accounts, even if delegating makes more headlines when non-mainstream assets are involved