The pace of announcements by UK insurers and brokers of new domiciles within the European Union for their post-Brexit operations has quickened in the last few months. Many are talking down the extent of the operations and staff who will have to move to service the business of EU clients. The regulators have other ideas.

Assets invested in illiquid credit more than doubled in 2016 from $178bn to $360bn, according to a survey by investment consultancy Willis Towers Watson.

This week, the Financial Conduct Authority published proposals to extend the Senior Managers and Certification Regime to almost all regulated firms which will impact insurers.

Under the terms of the code, which the market authority revised in May, life insurers, asset management companies and trust banks have been asked to publicise specific votes they cast at shareholders’ meetings, or otherwise explain the decision to not disclose their actions.

In the wake of the ground-breaking agreement at the end of the Paris Summit in December 2015 – the 21st Session of the Conference of Parties (COP21) – the role of insurers as investors in renewable energy and a range of green initiatives was high on the post-summit agenda.

This week, The Insurance Development Forum, at the annual International Insurance Society(IIS) Global Insurance Forum in London, applauded UK and Germany leadership to address the disaster coverage gap – a Centre for Global Disaster Protection is to be set up in London.