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This document presents the formal evaluation of proposed simplifications to the European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS). While the EBA supports the overall goal of reducing the reporting burden for companies, it expresses significant concern that certain permanent reliefs and data omissions could lead to long-term information gaps. The authority argues that a lack of high-quality, quantitative sustainability data may hinder risk management, facilitate greenwashing, and ultimately threaten financial stability. To address these risks, the EBA recommends implementing time-limited transitions for specific disclosure exemptions to ensure companies eventually provide comprehensive metrics. Additionally, the EBA emphasizes the need for interoperability with global standards and calls for the retention of key indicators, such as greenhouse gas emissions intensity, to support informed investment decisions.
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This report examines the expanding natural catastrophe protection gap in Europe, which leaves a significant portion of disaster-related economic losses uninsured. The authors argue that private reinsurers possess the necessary capital, global diversification, and modeling expertise to absorb these risks more effectively than state-led initiatives. They caution that government-backed reinsurance schemes may inadvertently cause market distortions, such as moral hazard or suppressed pricing signals that discourage safety improvements. To enhance societal resilience, the document suggests focusing on increasing insurance take-up rates and implementing stricter land-use regulations. Ultimately, the board advocates for risk-based pricing and open markets to ensure that financial protection remains both sustainable and affordable amidst a changing climate.
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The chain-ladder (CL) method is the most widely used claims reserving technique in non-life insurance. This manuscript introduces a novel approach to computing the CL reserves based on a fundamental restructuring of the data utilization for the CL prediction procedure. Instead of rolling forward the cumulative claims with estimated CL factors, we estimate multi-period factors that project the latest observations directly to the ultimate claims. This alternative perspective on CL reserving creates a natural pathway for the application of machine learning techniques to individual claims reserving. As a proof of concept, we present a small-scale real data application employing neural networks for individual claims reserving.