• The exercise aims to test the overall resilience of the insurance sector and to identify its major vulnerabilities;
• Insurers will be tested against interest rate, corporate bonds, sovereigns, equity and property stresses as well as against insurance-specific shocks;
• The second module of the test represents a follow up to EIOPA’s Opinion on Supervisory Response to a Prolonged Low Interest Rate Environment;
• The exercise will allow EIOPA and NSAs to define areas for further investigation and to focus supervisory responses;

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