14% of EU insurers fail 'baseline' EU stress tests
A test of more than half of Europe’s insurers by market share has found that one in twelve are currently likely to fail to meet solvency capital requirements when the Solvency II regime launches in just over a year.
Tests by the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority looked at insurers representing 55% of the EU market.
While individual firms were not named, Eiopa said that the firms represented 3
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