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ANALYSIS: Draft rules put UK on captive map, further work required to be truly competitive

  • 10% capital formula shows the PRA means business
  • Four-to-six-week authorisation target hailed as genuinely competitive
  • Direct writing restrictions on compulsory lines and employee benefits largely understood
  • PCCs and clean re-domiciliation process would be game changer to proposed regime
  • Regulator proves it understands captive business and has appetite to succeed

Industry stakeholders have broadly welcomed the UK’s proposed captive regime, describing it as an important step towards a competitive international domicile while identifying re-domiciliation, tax clarity and additional captive structures as the next priorities.

The Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) outlined its draft regulations (CP11/26) on 14 July for captive insurers in the United Kingdom, including a new “proportionate and tailored” solvency regime, importantly, outside of Solvency UK. 

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