The Commission Work Programme 2017

NFU News 2016-11-03NFU News In October, the European Commission announced its Work Programme for 2017. The work programme sets out the top ten political initiatives the Commission commits to delivering by the end of the next year. There is not much of new legislation...

Joint declaration on digitalisation signed

NFU News NFU News The social partners of the European Insurance sector, UNI Europa Finance, Insurance Europe, Amice and Bipar, have signed a joint declaration on digitalisation. The declaration was signed on October 12 in Brussels as a part of the European Social...

Disrupted Europe?

NFU News 2016-10-10NFU News In September I visited some of the core centres of European financial integration, trying to navigate myself through some pretty technical discussions on how EU financial legislation will change the routines of the Nordic financial...

Lessons from the Wells Fargo scandal

NFU News 2016-09-28NFU News At NFU, we have been working actively with the topic of performance measurement systems since last year when we launched a Nordic wide survey on the subject. It has been on our radar ever since, but this month the issue really blew us away...

Hearing on the IDD Guidelines

NFU News NFU News On the 23rd of September EIOPA (European Insurance and occupational pensions authority) held a public hearing in Frankfurt on the new proposed guidelines for insurance sales in Europe. The Insurance Distribution Directive is the directive from the...