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1.  ''Risk management - transferring & pooling risk - commercial.''
The UK's former Office of Fair Trading.
 
A contract designed to provide protection against specified types of risk or loss, by paying out to the insured party in the event that the insured loss occurs.
Insurance is generally provided by specialist insurance companies, to whom an insurance premium is paid by the insured in advance.
 
 
2.  ''Risk management - transferring & pooling risk - commercial.''
 
The act or structure of providing insurance on a commercial basis, or of buying it.
 
 
3.  ''Risk management - market stability - regulation.''
 
The actions or structures of a regulator or supervisor to ensure market stability, whether or not they are provided on commercial terms.
 
For example, the liquidity insurance provided by the Bank of England in acting as a lender of last resort for banks and other financial market participants.
 
Retail deposit insurance is another example.




== See also ==
== See also ==
* [[After the event insurance]]
* [[Competition & Markets Authority]]  (CMA)
* [[Assurance]]
* [[Office of Fair Trading]]
* [[Captive insurance company]]
* [[Chartered Insurance Institute]]
* [[Credit insurance]]
* [[Deposit insurance]]
* [[European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority]]  (EIOPA)
* [[Excess]]
* [[Financial Conduct Authority]]
* [[Fixing instrument]]
* [[Force majeure]]
* [[GI]]
* [[Hedging]]
* [[HMO]]
*[[International Association of Insurance Supervisors]]  (IAIS)
* [[ILS]]
* [[Insurable]]
* [[Insurance Capital Standard]]
* [[Insurance risk]]
* [[Insure]]
* [[Lender of last resort]]
* [[Liability insurance]]
* [[Liquidity insurance]]
* [[National Insurance]]
* [[Net-Zero Insurance Alliance]]
* [[Option]]
* [[Premium]]
* [[Price walking]]
* [[Principles for Sustainable Insurance]]
* [[Regulation]]
* [[Reinsurance]]
* [[Risk]]
* [[Risk management]]
* [[Risk response]]
* [[Supervision]]
* [[Trade credit insurance]]
* [[Transfer]]
* [[Trustee liability insurance]]
* [[Underwriting]]


[[Category:Financial_risk_management]]
[[Category:Accounting,_tax_and_regulation]]
[[Category:Financial_products_and_markets]]
[[Category:The_business_context]]

Latest revision as of 10:40, 17 September 2023

The UK's former Office of Fair Trading.


See also