Abstract
The insurance sector, along with the rest of the financial sector, has faced significant changes in recent years, and such changes have brought new products and services, new tools, new styles of competition and new risks. Following an analysis of the main megatrends that impact the insurance industry, the chapter focuses on new control challenges to better cope with the evolving scenario, where insurance activities become ever riskier and more complex. Furthermore, the chapter focusses on the impact of these potential changes on external regulation and on the revision of the existing regulatory regime.
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Cappiello, A. (2020). The Evolving Risk Landscape: Impact on Internal Control and External Regulation. In: The European Insurance Industry. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-43142-6_5
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