Blogs

  • Brexit chicken

    20/04/2018

    In the famous 1955 film Rebel Without a Cause, James Dean and Corey Allen race stolen cars towards a cliff edge in the classic game of chicken, where the loser is the first driver to jump out of the car.

  • Brexit: EIOPA fails the test of imagination

    29/01/2018

    I spoke on a Panel in Washington last week, at the EU-US Insurance Symposium, a regulatory/industry forum. The Panel was about Brexit. Distance lends perspective, the sages maintain, and certainly…

  • Making sense of the Brexit papers

    25/08/2017

    In between the summer stories of a pregnant panda, Bonnie Tyler aptly performing during the solar eclipse and the “final” bongs of Big Ben you may have also noticed that there has been a flurry of…

  • Statutory Instruments – where do I begin?

    14/07/2017

    The European Union (withdrawal) Bill, commonly referred to as the Repeal Bill, was presented to Parliament yesterday. You probably weren’t alone in asking what the terms delegated legislation, secondary legislation and statutory legislation mean and what this all has to do with Brexit. Don’t panic. We are here to help.

  • What did we learn from the ABI Brexit conference?

    29/06/2017

    Anniversaries are a good time to reflect and move forward. One year on from the EU referendum we decided to hold a Brexit conference to do just that. The conference was an opportunity to cut through some of the uncertainty and focus on what matters in the Brexit negotiations for our customers and our industry.

  • Talking Brexit at BIBA

    12/05/2017

    I’m back at my desk after another busy BIBA conference where it was great to see so many familiar faces.