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Consolidation. Regulation. Technology. Customer segmentation. The Financial Services sector juggles a multitude of issues every day.

That’s why the Ernst & Young Financial Services team brings together a diverse range of experience, skills, knowledge, talent and contacts – to help Financial Services organisations anticipate market trends, identify their implications and develop solutions for their most demanding issues.

In the UK we have a team of over 1,600 employees dedicated to the industry; we can call on the expertise of a further 21,000 colleagues across our global organisation. Together we service clients ranging from the world’s largest banks to boutique managers.

The road to Solvency II (The Actuary, August 2008)
Roundtable discussion around the ongoing issues surrounding the Solvency II directive and its impact on the insurance industry and beyond. Download 4.8Mb, August 2008

So many questions...and so little time
An Ernst & Young point of view on the Competition Commision provisional findings report on the market investigation into Payment Protection Insurance. Download 310Kb, June 2008

The price is right? Technical pricing and rate monitoring in a softening market

This report explores the importance of technical pricing and rate monitoring in the current soft market and the challenges faced as businesses strive to effectively manage profitability. The research was conducted with actuaries, underwriting directors and chief risk officers. For further details please contact

Ed Hannan. Download The price is right

1Mb, June 2008

The Finance Operating Model Matters

This report prepared by CFO Research Services in collaboration with Ernst & Young is the result of interviews with finance officers at some of the world's largest banks. The report reveals that in order to rise to the standard now expected of them and become true strategic partners, CFOs must first improve their financial operations. Download the report

366K, March 2008

Please contact Email David Gittleson to discuss the report.

Good UK Insurance Group Limited

This publication provides an illustrative set of consolidated financial statements of Good UK Insurance Group Limited, a fictitious group of insurance companies, prepared in accordance with Generally Accepted Accounting Practice in the United Kingdom (UK GAAP). Download the statements

2.4Mb, February 2008

FSA Insurance Returns

A practical guide and commentary on the completion of returns to the FSA by insurers under the Accounts and Statements Rules and other information to be reported to the FSA by insurers under the FSA Handbook of Rules and Guidance. Read more.

London & Bermuda – The COO Agenda

Ernst & Young's first annual survey of insurance market Chief Operating Officers provides the industry with primary insight into the significance of the operational changes currently affecting the London & Bermuda insurance markets and the increased importance of the COO's role within this. Click here to read more, or contact Andy Worth to discuss the report

1.2Mb, January 2008

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Financial Services

The Future of Distribution in SME Commercial General Insurance

The Impact on Underwriting and the Underwriter of the 21st Century

CII’s Underwriting Faculty and Ernst & Young have worked in partnership to publish a report that examines distribution in the SME segment of the commercial lines general insurance market over the next five years, and its impact on underwriting and the role of the underwriter... Read more

The Retail Distribution Review Survey

Ernst & Young in association with the Personal Finance Society. Find out more.

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