Solvency II could ‘exacerbate an economic storm’

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Solvency II could ‘exacerbate an economic storm’

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Under Solvency II, regulators’ inability to loosen insurers’ capital requirements could worsen the market situation in a crisis, according to the UK parliament’s Treasury select committee.

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