Solvency II Wire Data is an innovative insurance database of the Solvency II SFCR data provided by Solvency II Wire.
The database grew organically out of the activities and expertise acquired by Gideon Benari, editor and founder of Solvency II Wire, and the Solvency II Wire team.
The timeline traces the steps that led to the development of the database and its pioneering and market leading approach to processing and delivering the Solvency SFCR and QRT data.
2014
Europe says “yes” to EIOPA Solvency II Guidelines
Analysis of 5,766 responses from 31 European national authorities to the EIOPA comply an explain exercise
2014
Take-up of XBRL across Europe
Survey of national authorities intending to use XBRL for Solvency II reporting
2014
Internal model pre-applications in 2014
Survey showing the number of insurance and reinsurance entities in Solvency II internal model pre-application
2015
The state of Solvency II transposition
Analysis of EUR-Lex legislative database to reveal the progress and intension of member states to transpose Solvency II into national law
2016
Solvency II News: Europe split over Solvency II external audit
Survey of national regulators on the requiement to audit the Solvency II disclosures
2017
How do you SFCR?
Groundbreaking text analysis of the first Solvency II SFCR reports published in Europe
2017
Solvency II QRT and SFCR – what we know so far
First publication of data collected and processed by Solvency II Wire Data highlighting some issues with the published data
2017
Analysis of 100 SFCR and QRT reports reveals high quality of Solvency II public disclosures
Review of the data and disclosure quality of the first 100 SFCR reports published
2017
Solvency II News: The state of SFCR disclosures, two weeks on
A review of 1,700 websites of the estimated 3,200 firms subject to Solvency II reveals that only about half of firms have published their SFCRs to date
2017
Topsy-turvy SCR ratios
First analysis of the Solvency II figures, explaining why some SCR ratio is higher than the MCR ratio
2017
MCR shock – testing the strength of the SCR coverage ratio
The first of a number of methods using the QRT data to determine the resilience of the insurance market
2018
Deconstructing Internal Model SCR components
Introducing the Solvency II Wire Data Comparator Tool for comparing the SCR components of partial and full internal model firms
2018
Experimental financial statistics for UK insurance sector using Solvency II data
Integrating the Solvency II data in broader economic analysis
2018
A cross-border reinsurance spiral
A collaboration between Solvency II Wire and consultancy LCP conducting a major investigation into the failure of a number of insurance companies using public disclosures and the SFCR reports
2018
Putting the Solvency II QRTs to the test
A follow up article to the insolvency investigation using the QRT data to develop metrics for identifying potential insurance failures
2021
Tracking European Insurance Cross-Border Activities
Using Solvency II Wire Data functionality to understand the exposure of business across Europe
2021
Solvency II News: Market sensitivity disclosure in first 2020 SFCRs
A sample of 45 early reporters of the 2020 Solvency II public disclosures shows that all but one firm published information about the impact of […]
2021
More than half of European insurers publish their Solvency II data
Analysis of the European insurance market conducted by Solvency II Wire Data shows that over 1,700 European insurers have published their Solvency II public disclosures within the first […]
2021
Solvency II Group Structure: solos and all entities
European insurance groups subject to Solvency II have to report on all their solo entities that are subject to Solvency II, as well as provide […]
