In this episode of the Global Regulatory Update podcast, the IIF’s Philippe Brahin, Director of Insurance and NBFI Regulation and Policy, speaks with Virginia Insurance Commissioner and newly elected President of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC), Scott A. White, about the supervisory, macroprudential, and structural forces shaping U.S. insurance oversight in 2026. Commissioner White outlines the NAIC’s strategic priorities for the year ahead, including reinforcing resilience in the property and casualty market under growing climate related stress, managing increasingly complex investment risk profiles in the life sector, and navigating federal-state dynamics as Washington reconsiders its role in insurance policy. He connects these priorities to rising pressure around natural catastrophe losses, digital transformation, operational risks, and the continued evolution of insurer balance sheets.

The discussion then turns to cross‑border coordination and international standard‑setting. Commissioner White walks through the NAIC’s work with the IAIS and the FSB as global bodies refine expectations around recovery and resolution planning, including the implications of the FSB’s expanded list of insurers subject to resolution planning standards. He also offers a detailed overview of progress on the Aggregation Method, recognized as comparable to the ICS in 2024, and outlines how U.S. regulators are addressing remaining issues such as interest‑rate sensitivity and supervisory intervention. The conversation also covers the NAIC’s broader capital‑framework modernization, including the RBC Guiding Principles adopted in 2025 and the ongoing gap analysis aimed at updating a framework that has not undergone major structural revision since the 1990s.

Finally, Commissioner White examines two areas drawing heightened global attention: alternative asset growth and asset‑intensive reinsurance, and the widening natural catastrophe protection gap. He discusses the supervisory responses underway, from enhanced review of asset‑backed securities and offshore reinsurance treaties to expanded market‑level data collection and mitigation‑focused consumer education. The episode concludes with a deep dive into the NAIC’s emerging AI oversight architecture, including the 10‑state pilot of the new AI Systems Evaluation Tool, and the regulatory tensions arising from federal proposals that would centralize or preempt AI governance across industries.

In this episode of the Global Regulatory Update podcast, we host Stu Doyle, U.S. Insurance Risk & Regulation Leader at EY, to discuss findings from the second annual IIF/EY Global Insurance Risk Management Survey.

Drawing from insights from over 80 institutions across the insurance sector, the 2025 survey reveals that cybersecurity and geopolitical risks continue to intensify while organizations increasingly prioritize third-party risk management, AI governance, and regulatory compliance.

Our conversation explores this year's key findings and how they've evolved since the inaugural 2024 survey. We examine the expanding role of Chief Risk Officers (CROs) as they drive organizational transformation and embed risk culture throughout their institutions. Stu also contrasts the insurance survey results with findings from the Global Bank Risk Management Survey, highlighting sector-specific risk priorities.

The discussion covers how CROs are navigating emerging technologies like machine learning and artificial intelligence, balancing innovation with risk management while preparing their organizations for unforeseen challenges ahead.

The full IIF/EY Global Insurance Risk Management Survey can be found here.

In this episode of the GRU Podcast, we are delighted to be joined by Jean Boissinot, the Director of Risk and Regulation at the Autorité de Contrôle Prudentiel et de Resolution (ACPR) - the regulatory authority responsible for supervising the banking and insurance sectors in France - and former Head of Secretariat at the Network for Greening the Financial System (NGFS).

Katie and Jean discuss a variety of timely topics within climate stress testing and climate scenario analysis. Jean reviews the key developments in the field – in relation to scenario development, data and metrics, and modelling techniques – over the past five years, what we have learned in that time and the key challenges and open questions for the next five years.

In this episode of the GRU Podcast, we are excited to be joined by Commissioner Jon Godfread, the North Dakota State Insurance Commissioner, as well as President of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC), to discuss a number of issues on the agenda within the U.S. insurance regulation realm.

These topics include assessing the rate of transition and notable changes within the insurance sector under a presidential administration shift, key priorities for the newly launched Risk-Based Capital Task Force, challenges within property insurance-related markets as highlighted by events such as the Los Angeles wildfires of January 2025, amassing circa $30 billion in insured losses, how the NAIC coordinates with international regulators in an increasingly fragmented regulatory environment, NAIC approaches to artificial intelligence implementation via the AI Model Bulletin and review of the AI Systems Programs, analyzing risks, goals and industry growth potential and prospects from the point of view of the NAIC and much more.

In this episode of the GRU Podcast, we host Dr. Vera Sevrouk, the Senior Syndications Officer at the International Finance Corporation, to discuss the structure and implications of the IFC's Managed Co-Lending Portfolio Program (MCPP.)

The discussion begins by detailing the IFC's role within the World Bank Group before detailing the structure, composition and development of the MCPP, what role the insurance sector plays and how credit insurance is leveraged in the program, providing examples of projects supported by the MCPP, common challenges facing institutions looking to participate in the program and much more.

In this episode of the GRU Podcast, we host three EY financial practice leaders to discuss findings from the 14th Annual IIF/EY Global Bank Risk Management Survey, entitled "Agility in Volatility: Rebalancing CRO Priorities in a Shifting Risk Landscape."

We are delighted to be joined by EY's Tom Campanile, the Global and Americas Financial Services Risk Consulting leader, Joe Mezzadri, a Financial Services Risk Consulting Leader, and Chris Woolard, Chair of EY's Global Regulatory Network to discuss the findings of this edition of the survey.

The discussion on the survey's findings focuses on underlying themes - such as increased volatility, widespread uncertainty, and a broadening range of risks - that Chief Risk Officers (CROs) face, the shifting risk landscape and how CROs navigate emerging challenges, how innovative technologies, including artificial intelligence and quantum computing, factor into risk analysis and strategies, how risk management teams are evolving through partnerships and talent acquisition, how organizations can proactively combat risk and much more.

The full survey in its entirety can be found on the IIF website and on the EY website.

In this episode of the GRU Podcast, IIF's Richard Gray, Director of Regulatory Affairs, is joined by Carole Gintz, Associate Managing Director, Structured Finance at Moody's Ratings and Ian Bell, Chief Executive Officer at PCS Markets, to discuss the current landscape surrounding the securitization market.

After providing a backdrop of the current state of the securitization markets and recent trends, Richard, Carole and Ian discuss many present and future topics within the market, with a particular focus on the market in Europe. The discussion includes highlighting significant regulatory requirements and features and the impact and implications for relevant stakeholders, the health of the securitization market from a credit point of view, consequences and potential outcomes from the recent European Commission consultation on the Functioning of the EU Securitisation Framework, the particular importance of the securitization market in the development of the Capital Markets Union and much more.

In this episode of the GRU Podcast, Andres Portilla, IIF's Managing Director of Regulatory Affairs, is joined by colleague Jessica Renier, Managing Director of Digital Finance, and Jacques Visser, Chief Legal Officer at Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC), to discuss developments both at DIFC and in the landscape of financial centers at large. The discussion covers a wide range of topics, including the role of financial centers in the financial industry, artificial intelligence regulation, approaches to the private wealth market, the ever-evolving landscape of digital assets, evolution and differentiation of DIFC's legal frameworks from other financial centers and much more.