The Captive Insurance (Captive Insurance Business) (Amendment) Rules 2025

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1. Citation
   These Rules may be cited as the Captive Insurance (Captive Insurance Business) (Amendment) Rules 2025.
2. Interpretation
   In these Rules –
   “principal Rules” means the Captive Insurance (Captive Insurance Business) Rules 2024.
3. Rule 2 of the principal Rules amended
   Rule 2 of the principal Rules is amended, by inserting, in the appropriate alphabetical order, the following new definitions – “best-estimate assumptions” means realistic assumptions which depend upon the nature of the business and which should be guided by immediate past experience, as modified by any knowledge of, or expectations regarding, the future, and when assumptions are interrelated, such as discount rates, bonus rates and expense inflation, the assumptions must be consistent; “contractual service margin” means the component of the carrying amount of the asset or liability for a group of insurance contracts, representing the unearned profit which the captive insurer shall recognise as it provides captive insurance business under the group of insurance contracts;

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4. Rule 10 of the principal Rules amended
Rule 10 of the principal Rules is amended by deleting paragraph (1) and replacing it by the following new paragraph – (1) The capital available of a captive insurer shall consist of shares issued and paid up, share premium, retained earnings, reserves and may include the contractual service margin.

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5. Rule 12 of the principal Rules amended
Rule 12 of the principal Rules is deleted and replaced by the following new Rule –
12. Technical reserves
A captive insurer shall make adequate technical provisions in its accounts for its underwriting liabilities in respect of its insurance contracts, including – (a) liabilities for remaining coverage; and (b) liabilities for incurred claims.
6. Rule 19 of the principal Rules amended
Rule 19 of the principal Rules is amended - (a) by deleting paragraph (2) and replacing it by the following new paragraph – (2) An investigation referred to in paragraph (1) shall include a valuation of its – (a) liabilities for incurred claims; and (b) liabilities for remaining coverage, in accordance with these Rules. (b) in paragraph (4) – (i) in subparagraph (q), by deleting the word “and”; (ii) by deleting subparagraph (r) and inserting the following new paragraphs – (r) information on the captive insurer’s methodology and assumptions used to determine the inputs for fulfilment cash flows;

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7. Rule 20 of the principal Rules amended
Rule 20 of the principal Rules is amended by inserting, after paragraph (1), the following new paragraph– (1A) The captive insurer shall ensure that the separate accounts referred to in paragraph (1) are maintained in compliance with IFRS 17, including the accurate reflection of contractual service margin, fulfilment cash flows, and risk adjustment for each class of insurance business.
8. Rule 24 of the principal Rules amended
Rule 24 of the principal Rules is amended by deleting the words “and the margins specified in Part IV of the Second Schedule”.
9. New Rule 24A of the principal Rules added
The principal Rules are amended by inserting, after rule 24, the following new Rule – 24A. Substance requirements A captive insurer shall, at all times, for the conduct of its core income generating activities –

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10. Second Schedule to the principal Rules amended
The Second Schedule to the principal Rules is deleted and replaced by the Schedule to these Rules.
11. Commencement
These Rules shall come into operation on 29 September 2025. Made by the Financial Services Commission on 16 September 2025. ––––––––––––

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SCHEDULE
[Rule 10]
SECOND SCHEDULE
[Rules 8 and 12]
PART I
CALCULATION OF ASSET CAPITAL
Asset capital shall be calculated by taking into consideration the following required margins:
Applicable factors Required Margin Pure captive insurance business Class 1 third party captive insurance business Multi-owner pure captive insurance business, class 2 or class 3 third party captive insurance business (a) Cash, cash at bank, short term deposits and premium and non-premium receivables outstanding for less than 12 months, receivables from related companies for less than 12 months, amounts recoverable from incurred claims for less than 12 months 0% 0% 0% (b) Money market placements (collective investment schemes), government and semi- government bonds 1% 1% 1%

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Schedule
17%, or such other amount as may be approved by the Commission 17%, or such other amount as may be approved by the Commission 17%, or such other amount as may be approved by the Commission Note 1: Where information is not available to determine the redemption or maturity of an asset, or the asset falls in more than one category, the captive insurer shall use the category with the highest capital factors for that asset. Note 2: A look-through approach has to be performed when analysing the rating of the bond funds (if not rated).
PART II
CALCULATION OF UNDERWRITING CAPITAL Underwriting capital shall be calculated by retaining 10% of the higher of:
(a) gross written premium or earned premium, whichever is higher, minus premiums ceded to reinsurers with acceptable ratings; and (b) the maximum of:
i. Yearly average of last 3 year’s incurred service expense
excluding acquisition cashflows; and
ii. Yearly average of last 3 year’s outstanding claims and
Incurred But Not Reported claims net of recoveries from reinsurers with acceptable ratings.

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PART III
ACCEPTABLE RATINGS FOR THE CALCULATION OF ASSET CAPITAL AND UNDERWRITING CAPITAL Acceptable ratings shall be equal to or above the rating tiers provided in the table hereunder:
Credit Rating Agencies Credit Rating Tiers Pure or class 1 Multi-owner or class 2 or class 3

1. Standard & Poor’s BBB A
2. Moody’s Investors Service Baa A
3. AM Best B- B+
4. Fitch Ratings BBB A
5. Global Credit Rating
   (International Claims Paying Ability) BBB A
6. CARE Rating
   (Claims Paying Ability) BBB A
   Where a class 1 third party captive insurer conducts long term insurance business, the ratings of multi-owner or class 2 or class 3 shall apply to the class 1 third party captive insurer. –––––––––– By Authority: Government Printing Department, La Tour Koenig 75/09/2025 – 914