From Basel II into Solvency II… has the European Parliament lost it?

As reported by Nikki Tait and Paul J Davies, April 23, not only do the higher risks have to pay higher insurance rates because the market so demands it, but now they have to be additionally penalized in order to compensate for the higher capital requirements for higher risks that will be imposed on the European insurers by the European Parliament; as a result of something called “Solvency II” and which sounds and reads frightfully similar to Basel II.

Do they never learn? Now again, what will result from all this is increasing the incentives for disguising as being of lower-risks and for having the regulators go to sleep in the belief that all has been taken care of. Who is going to measure the risks? The insurance risk rating agencies? Start praying!