2012-01-01 | FIN-FSA Regulations and guidelines 13/2012The Finnish Financial Supervisory Authority (FIN-FSA) issued Regulations and Guidelines 13/2012 to establish the capital adequacy requirements for occupational pension institutions, effective from January 1, 2022. The document was amended on November 9, 2021, following public consultations in 2015 and 2016 regarding risk and solvency assessment regulations. These rules define the prudential standards and reporting obligations necessary to ensure the financial stability of entities providing statutory pension insurance.
Regulations and Guidelines 13/2012 (pdf)
Capital Adequacy of Occupational Pension Institutions
Effective from 1.1.2022
Amended on 9.11.2021
Regulations and Guidelines 13/2012 Capital Adequacy of Occupational Pension Institutions (version 3) (pdf)
More information
Request for Comments 10/2015 FIN-FSA's regulations and guidelines on the calculation of the capital adequacy limit for pension institutions conducting statutory pension insurance and on the diversification of investments, as well as amendments to the Regulations and Guidelines
Request for Comments 7/2016 Changes to regulations and guidelines caused by the regulation concerning the risk and solvency assessment of pension institutions
Comments received on the draft regulations and guidelines
Comments received on Request for Comments 10/2015, 10.12.2015, (ref. no. FIVA 12/01.00/2015)
Feedback on received comments
Comments received on Request for Comments 7/2016, 25.1.2016, (ref. no. FIVA 13/01.00/2016)
Ministry of Social Affairs and Health
Feedback on received comments
Comments received on 11.8.2021
Comments received on Request for Comments 11.8.2021 (ref. no. FIVA 17/01.00/2021)
Summary of Comments
FIN-FSA regulations and guidelines
Commencement of activities
Payment institutions and persons providing payment services without a license
Consumer credit providers and peer-to-peer loan intermediaries
Organisation of supervised entities’ operations
Organisation of alternative investment fund management and procedures
Outsourcing in supervised entities belonging to the financial sector
Reporting of mortgage bank operations
Alternative investment fund managers
Organisation of investment services and procedures
Preventing Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing
Customer due diligence related to compliance with sanctions regulation and national freezing orders
Risk management
Risk reporting by credit institutions
Reporting of funding plans
Management of operational risk in supervised entities of the financial sector
Management of credit risk and assessment of creditworthiness by supervised entities in the financial sector
Risk management concerning mortgage bank operations
Accounting, financial statements and management report
Regulations and guidelines on accounting, financial statements and management report: Insurance companies, occupational pension insurance companies, insurance associations, insurance holding companies, branches of third-country insurance companies and pension institutions established by law
Regulations and guidelines on accounting, financial statements and management report: Pension funds and pension foundations
Regulations on accounting, financial statements and management report: Sickness funds and funeral and severance allowance funds
Financial sector regulations and guidelines on reporting of financial information (FINREP)
Accounting, financial statements and management report of the financial sector
Capital adequacy
Common European Reporting (COREP)
Regulations and Guidelines related to the Capital Requirements Regulation
Prudential reporting for investment firms (IF)
Conduct of Business
Methods used to calculate the maximum compensation charged for early repayment of housing loans
Disclosure of expenses and returns of long-term savings agreements and insurance policies
Calculation of maximum loan-to-value ratio
Procedures to be followed in banking services
Management of default risks in consumer lending
Operations of securities markets
Takeover bid and the obligation to launch a bid
Public insider register of market participants, occupational pension insurance companies and fund management companies
Trading counterparties from third countries
Regulations and guidelines on disclosure obligation
Insurance operations