EIOPA Issues Supervisory Statement on PE-Linked (Re)insurance Firms
EIOPA's 6 October 2026 statement signals how EU national supervisors are expected to authorise and oversee insurers and reinsurers tied to private equity owners.
On 6 October 2026, EIOPA published a Supervisory Statement on the Authorisation and Ongoing Supervision of (Re)insurance Undertakings Related to Private Equity, according to Skadden's report; the available extract does not reproduce the statement's specific supervisory expectations, so those should be read in the original text before being relied on.
Supervisory statements of this kind are directed at national competent authorities rather than being directly binding law, but they shape supervisory practice across the member states. That makes the statement a directional signal on how private equity ownership, control and funding of insurers and reinsurers is expected to be assessed — a live issue as sponsors acquire or build insurance platforms and as reinsurance capacity becomes an acquisition target.
Counsel and clients should read it alongside existing fit-and-proper, governance and group-supervision requirements, and alongside any national implementing guidance, because it may inform screening questions in transaction due diligence and post-closing reporting. The next developments to watch are competent authority responses, national transposition or supervisory statements, and any parallel EBA or Commission work in the EU's broader review of insurer ownership and financial stability.