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The Direction of Insurance Regulation in the UAE and the Anticipated Challenges
Irshied TayebHead of Insurance & Reinsurance
Current and Future Regulatory challenges in the MENA: UAE Focus
• Regulatory framework currently imbalance between various regulatory function. In specific legislative and supervisory.
• Overcome the regulatory structure at the outset: twin peak, interactive, ministerial and independent.
• Regulatory reputation reformation to balance the overall authority and responsibility of the industry.
• Industry development in line with the regulatory reformation to line up to achieve optimal level.
• Industry practice to line up with international practice. Reinsurance dependency, risk averse, authority/responsibility, distribution, investment strategy.
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Current and Future Regulatory challenges in the MENA: UAE Focus (Cont’d)
• ERM as a way to address some of the technical challenges alongside the specific and general activities especially the highly scaled ones.
• Synergetic activities between regional regulatory bodies, taking USA model as an analogy where 50 regulatory authorities and coordination association without active authority NAIC (National Association of Insurance Commissioner).
• International regulatory enhancement and regional and local response Basel II, solvency 2 and 3 and own regulatory.
• Establish non existent function that is handled at reinsurance level to bring back in a viable way to cedent, main example risk modeling and ROE (commercial capital calculation).
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Current and Future Regulatory challenges in the MENA: UAE Focus (Cont’d)
• Conversion of static into risk base approach while regulating and developing the insurance industry.
• Develop regulatory requirement to respond to highly growing elements that is rapidly developing such alternative distribution (mainly bancassurance).
• Respond to alternative risk transfer method and its’ lack of adaptation in our region, especially sidecard and SLI.
• Encourage M&A in the region for commercial strategic objective including runoff, hedge fund, economy of scale, market entry and capital adequacy.
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