Glossary

(1) (in the Financial Conglomerates Part of the PRA Rulebook) has the meaning given in Financial Conglomerates 1.4;

(2) (in relation to the Group Supervision Part of the PRA Rulebook) means, in relation to any undertaking in a group, an undertaking complying with the following conditions:

(a) its principal activity consists of:

(i) owning or managing property;

(ii) managing data-processing services;

(iii) providing health and care services; or

(iv) any other similar activity;

(b) the activity in (a) is ancillary to the principal activity of one or more insurance undertakings; and

(c) those insurance undertakings are also members of that group.

means an undertaking, the principal activity of which consists of owning or managing property, managing data-processing services, or a similar activity which is ancillary to the principal activity of one or more credit institutions, investment firms or insurers.

means a UK bank, a building society, a UK designated investment firm, a PRA approved parent holding company, a PRA designated parent holding company, a PRA approved intermediate holding company, a PRA designated intermediate holding company, or a PRA designated institution.

means;

(1) a reinsurance to close effected before 1 January 2005; or

(2) an agreement under which members of a syndicate in one syndicate year ("the reinsured members") agree with the members of that syndicate in a later syndicate year or the members of one other syndicate ("the reinsuring members") that the reinsuring members will discharge, or procure the discharge of, or indemnify the reinsured members against, all known and unknown insurance business liabilities of the reinsured members arising out of the insurance business carried on by the reinsured members in that syndicate year that is:

(a) effected after 1 January 2005; and

(b) not a balance transfer between two syndicate years where the syndicate has only one member and the member is the same in each of those years; or

(3) an agreement under which members of a syndicate in one syndicate year ("the reinsured members") agree with a subsidiary of the Society that that subsidiary will discharge, or procure the discharge of, or indemnify the reinsured members against, all known and unknown insurance business liabilities of the reinsured members arising out of the insurance business carried on by the reinsured members in that syndicate year ("the reinsured liabilities") and where:

(a) that subsidiary is wholly owned by the Society and if from time to time the subsidiary has an asset or cash flow deficiency such that the subsidiary is unable to meet any of the liabilities which it has reinsured, the Society is legally obliged to pay to the subsidiary a sum equal to that deficiency; and

(b) at the effective date of the agreement, the relevant syndicate year has been open for at least two years after the date at which it would normally have been closed in accordance with the policies and practices in relation to the syndicate concerned.

The changes to this defined term are effective from 23:00 on 31/12/2020.

means any of the services listed in Part 3A of Schedule 2 to the Regulated Activities Order.

means health insurance which meets all the conditions set out in Insurance Company – Capital Resources Requirements 13.1.

means analogous non-reinsurance financing agreements, including contingent loans, securitisations and any other arrangements in respect of contracts of insurance that are analogous to contracts of reinsurance in terms of the risks transferred and the finance provided.

means an activity which is not a regulated activity but which is:

(1) carried on in connection with a regulated activity; or

(2) held out as being for the purposes of a regulated activity.

The changes to this defined term are effective from 23:00 on 31/12/2020.

(1) (in relation to a UK Solvency II firm and Lloyd’s) has the meaning given in Own Funds 2.3 and are determined in accordance with Own Funds 2.3 to 2.7; or

(2) (in relation to an insurance holding company) means an own funds item referred to in Article 89 of the Solvency II Directive, determined in accordance with (1) as if it were a UK Solvency II firm; or

(3) (in relation to a third country branch undertaking) means an own funds item referred to in Article 89 of the Solvency II Directive, determined in accordance with (1) as if it were a UK Solvency II firm.