Banking publications and updates
V3.4.0 of the Bank of England XBRL Banking taxonomy
2 August 2021
The PRA published v3.4.0 of the Bank of England XBRL Banking taxonomy to support the collection of Capital+, Financial Statements, and Ring-fencing reporting, alongside related technical artefacts. Please see the Banks, building societies and investment firms page for more information.
Insurance publications and updates
Letter from Charlotte Gerken ‘Gathering information for the Solvency II review: Qualitative Questionnaire’
13 August 2021
Letter from Charlotte Gerken to the Chief Financial Officers of PRA-regulated Solvency II firms, introducing a qualitative questionnaire aimed at supporting the development of potential reforms, including cost benefit analysis, as part of the Government’s review of Solvency II.
1.3.0 public working draft (PWD) of the Bank of England Insurance taxonomy
9 August 2021
The PRA published version 1.3.0 public working draft (PWD) of the Bank of England Insurance taxonomy to support National Specific Templates (NSTs), Internal Model Outputs (IMO), Market Risk Sensitivities (MRS) and Standard Formula Reporting (SFR) reporting. Please see the Technical artefacts and support section on the regulatory reporting – insurance sector page.
Letter from the PRA ‘Insurance Stress Test 2022 (IST 2022)’
4 August 2021
Letter from Stefan Claus, Patrick Connolly, Andrew Dyer, Shoib Khan, and Catherine Nelson to the largest PRA-regulated life and general insurers, setting out the high-level scope for the 2022 Insurance Stress Test exercise.
Your input and views on open PRA consultations and other requests closing in September 2021
Closing date: 30 September
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Bank Underground - a blog for Bank of England staff to share views that challenge – or support – prevailing policy orthodoxies. The views expressed here are those of the authors, and are not necessarily those of the Bank of England or its policy committees.
Bank Overground - the purpose of Bank Overground is to share our internal analysis. Each bite-sized post summarises a piece of analysis that supported a policy or operational decision. In August Bank Overground published ‘Did movements in exchange-traded funds act as a price signal for open-ended fund investors during the ‘dash for cash’ stress period’.
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