We are supervisors, of course, and our mission is to guarantee that insurance companies are sound in the best interest of the insured. We must never forget that. But we are always ready to step in when reason and common sense must be added to the rules that we are called upon to set at European and national level.
The rest of the financial market If further progress is to be made in overcoming the difficulty of matching the demand and supply of funds then it is important that markets, technologies and stakeholders develop the capacity to ‘bundle’ corporate risk into financial instruments that meet the needs of final investors, such as insurance companies, pension funds and households.