The Solomon Islands, an archipelago in the southwestern Pacific, is renowned for its stunning natural beauty and rich biodiversity. However, underlying the idyllic veneer, the threats of rising sea levels, intensifying cyclones, and shifting weather patterns jeopardise the islands' infrastructure, economy, and way of life.

This publication shares results from a survey conducted in 2023 to delve deeper into how environmental, social, and governance standards are integrating into the insurance sector across Central, Eastern Europe, and Transcaucasia region.

The insurance industry and insurance regulators are increasingly recognising the importance of climate-related data in assessing and managing risks associated with climate change. In the landscape of risk management, the impact of climate change is becoming increasingly evident. The insurance industry and regulators alike are now turning their attention to a vital tool in navigating this reality—climate-related data.

This study shares insights from regulatory impact assessment conducted in Brazil, including its challenges and provides a framework for supervisors wanting to assess the impact of their regulatory frameworks in the future.

Today, on International Women's Day, A2ii is launching the FeMa-Meter, a tool for collecting sex-disaggregated data across two categories: access to and use of insurance, and organisational diversity. The tool helps collect key insurance indicators and provides immediately a quick analysis. The tool is targeted at insurance supervisors and regulators, policymakers, and insurance companies.

This report provides an initial and general overview of gender equity in the Argentinian Insurance Market and reflects the main outcomes and findings of the Gender Equity Survey.

Index insurance, also known as parametric insurance, has gained significant popularity in recent years due to its potential benefits. The use of satellite technology and predetermined trigger indexes allows for a swift response and efficient processing of pay-outs.

The shift to risk-based capital (RBC) approaches has many benefits for stakeholders in the insurance sector including consumers, industry players and supervisors. Not only does it support the development of the insurance market by providing flexibility and encouraging innovation, but it is also more efficient, allocating capital more appropriately to risk and reducing the amount of dormant capital. Additionally, RBC gives supervisors improved measures of financial soundness, insights into insurers’ risk management practises and corporate governance structures, comparability and proportionate ladders of intervention, leading to better supervision.

To be able to provide well-designed insurance solutions that address the needs of the low-income and excluded customers in a manner that is customer friendly but also economically sustainable, calls for innovation - i.e. to do new things or to do things differently.

This paper aims to contribute to filling this gap by citing concrete examples of how suptech tools are used by 22 insurance supervisors from both prudential and conduct perspectives.