Home Issues Our News

Our News

Column Inter­net of Things
19.07.2018

Sha­red lia­bi­lity: to ensure rapid tech­no­lo­gi­cal change remains soci­ally accep­ta­ble
Column Inter­net of Things
19.07.2018

Sha­red lia­bi­lity: to ensure rapid tech­no­lo­gi­cal change remains soci­ally accep­ta­ble
Digi­ti­za­tion, AI, the Inter­net of Things – all key­words that are bound together. These new buzz­words also raise ques­ti­ons con­cer­ning their inher­ent risks – ques­ti­ons which ulti­ma­tely affect us all and, of course, our indus­try. Arti­fi­cial...
Sustaina­ble finance column
06.07.2018

It’s not enough to just be green
Sustaina­ble finance column
06.07.2018

It’s not enough to just be green
Insu­rers have always had a par­ti­cu­lar inte­rest in sustaina­ble capi­tal invest­ments as their busi­ness model is based on long-term pro­tec­tion from risks. Eco­nomy and eco­logy can­not be mutually exclu­sive within this model. We accept this chal­lenge –...
Column on the GDPR
16.05.2018

Good data pro­tec­tion is essen­tial – within rea­son
Column on the GDPR
16.05.2018

Good data pro­tec­tion is essen­tial – within rea­son
Insu­rers know all about imple­men­ting com­plex regu­la­tory requi­re­ments, given the vigo­rous regu­la­tion of their indus­try – nevert­he­less the Gene­ral Data Pro­tec­tion Regu­la­tion (GDPR) still poses a major chal­lenge. The column of Jörg von Fürs­ten­werth
Column on dis­mant­ling bureau­cracy
12.04.2018

Who is sup­po­sed to manage?
Column on dis­mant­ling bureau­cracy
12.04.2018

Who is sup­po­sed to manage?
The ver­dict two years after the start of Sol­vency II: the effort and expense impo­sed by the super­vi­sory regime is affec­ting the sec­tor exces­si­vely. Three pro­po­sals to bring rapid change.
Cyber­se­cu­rity column
01.03.2018

Cross-bor­der risks
Cyber­se­cu­rity column
01.03.2018

Cross-bor­der risks
The Mobile World Con­gress in Bar­ce­lona has long since moved beyond just being a mobile phone exhi­bi­tion. The Inter­net of Things is making its pre­sence felt – and the threat of cyber­crime is incre­a­sing with every net­work node. As insu­rers, we...
Annual Press Con­fe­rence
31.01.2018

Ger­man insu­rers remain on growth path
Annual Press Con­fe­rence
31.01.2018

Ger­man insu­rers remain on growth path
The Ger­man ins­urance sec­tor excee­ded its own fore­casts in the past finan­cial year. All three busi­ness lines achie­ved bet­ter results than expec­ted one year ago, with pre­mium income of EUR 197.7 bil­lion (+1.7 per­cent) in 2017, announ­ced Wolf­gang...
#data4dri­vers column
24.01.2018

Let’s pre­vent a data mono­poly on the roads
#data4dri­vers column
24.01.2018

Let’s pre­vent a data mono­poly on the roads
Data from connec­ted cars does not belong to the manu­fac­tur­ers but to the dri­vers. None­t­he­less, there is a dan­ger of manu­fac­tur­ers acqui­ring a mono­poly as there is no clear legal fra­me­work to stop it. A data pro­tec­tion cam­paign by Euro­pean...
CPU worst-case sce­na­rios: Melt­down and Spec­tre
15.01.2018

Cyber­crime: Seven posi­ti­ons of Ger­man insu­rers
CPU worst-case sce­na­rios: Melt­down and Spec­tre
15.01.2018

Cyber­crime: Seven posi­ti­ons of Ger­man insu­rers
Melt­down and Spec­tre are vul­ne­ra­bi­li­ties to cyber-attack affec­ting com­pu­ters and smart­pho­nes all over the world. Alt­hough there are as yet no known cases of the com­pu­ter-chip flaws having been exploi­ted by hackers, the scale of the loss...
Regu­la­tion
05.01.2018

More entre­pre­neu­rial free­dom for Europe
Regu­la­tion
05.01.2018

More entre­pre­neu­rial free­dom for Europe
The EU is defi­ni­tely not short of regu­la­tion, alt­hough it is behind in imple­men­ting its rules. That is why we will con­ti­nue to advo­cate more entre­pre­neu­rial free­dom and a ligh­ter regu­la­tory bur­den throug­hout 2018. The column of Jörg von...
Eco­nomy
14.12.2017

Growth on cre­dit
Eco­nomy
14.12.2017

Growth on cre­dit
It’s enough to take your breath away. The glo­bal eco­nomy is facing an unu­sually high num­ber of risks by his­to­ri­cal com­pa­ri­son. Howe­ver, the mar­kets seem unaf­fec­ted as they con­ti­nue to reach new heights. Moreo­ver, accor­ding to the IMF’s latest...