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Solvency II Directive 2009 (2009/138/EC) is a Directive in European Union law that codifies and harmonises the EU insurance regulation. Primarily this concerns the amount of capital that EU insurance companies must hold to reduce the risk of insolvency.
At the heart of the prudential Solvency II directive, the own risk and solvency assessment (ORSA) is defined as a set of processes constituting a tool for decision-making and strategic analysis. It aims to assess, in a continuous and prospective way, the overall solvency needs related to the specific risk profile of the insurance company.
The Solvency II Directive 2009 is directed particularly at insurance firms, requiring minimum capital and best practices in valuation of assets, again to avoid insolvency. [17] The Capital Requirements Directives contain analogous rules, with a similar goals, for banks.
Aktiengesellschaft : literally "stock company" ≈ public limited company (plc) (UK), Inc. (US); minimum capital €50,000. eingetragene Genossenschaft (e.G.): registered cooperative; Körperschaft des öffentlichen Rechts: corporation under public law; main purpose is non-commercial, part of public administration; others
Minimum capital is a concept used in corporate law and banking regulation to stipulate what assets the organisation must hold as a minimum requirement. The purpose of minimum capital in corporate law is to ensure that in the event of insolvency or financial instability, the corporation has a sufficient equity base to satisfy the claims of creditors.
The solvency ratio of an insurance company is the size of its capital relative to all risks it has taken. The solvency ratio is most often defined as: ... The solvency ratio is a measure of the risk an insurer faces of claims that it cannot absorb. The amount of premium written is a better measure than the total amount insured because the level ...
In 2010 the OIC in anticipation of the planned move to a risk-based capital measure of solvency in 2011, issued a five-year strategic development plan for the Thai insurance industry [5] in which the OIC recognised that with more than 90 licensed insurers in the Kingdom at that time, [6] industry consolidation was both desirable and necessary ...
A key part of bank regulation is to make sure that firms operating in the industry are prudently managed. The aim is to protect the firms themselves, their customers, the government (which is liable for the cost of deposit insurance in the event of a bank failure) and the economy, by establishing rules to make sure that these institutions hold enough capital to ensure continuation of a safe ...