Company: TIPT
Filing Date: 2025-03-03
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001393726-25-000028
Chunk: 63

Company: TIPTREE INC.
Filing Date: 2025-03-03
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1
Chunk 63
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 statutes which may require prior regulatory approval or non-disapproval of material transactions between an insurance company and an affiliate or of a change in control of a domestic insurer or of payments of extraordinary dividends or distributions.Fortegra’s insurance, service contract, and premium finance businesses are subject to U.S. federal and state regulations governing the protection of personal confidential information and data security, including the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, New York Department of Financial Services Cybersecurity Regulation and California Consumer Privacy Act. Fortegra’s subsidiaries operating in the EU are subject to the General Data Protection Regulation, or the “GDPR,” which regulates data protection for all individuals within the EU. Fortegra is active and subject to regulation in twenty foreign jurisdictions and intends to write business in additional foreign jurisdictions. A portion of its foreign business is conducted via our insurance company in Malta. Malta is a member country of the EU, and as of December 31, 2024, Fortegra is active in eighteen countries in the EU. The EU’s executive body, the European Commission, implemented insurance directives and capital adequacy and risk management regulations. EU member countries follow the insurance directives approved by the European Commission. The insurance directives set forth a regulatory regime for the authorization and supervision of insurers, with a broad set of principles and standards for protecting policyholders across the EU. These directives give insurers authorized in any one EU country or territory the freedom to conduct insurance business in any other EU country or territory, referred to as passporting. Procedures are in place regarding the notifications and approvals by the home state regulator for passporting. Insurers exercising this freedom continue to be regulated by their home state regulator, although the host state is entitled to impose domestic rules with which passporting insurers are required to follow for its business in the host state, in the interest of the general good. Within this context, our Malta company is authorized and supervised by the Malta Financial Services Authority (“MFSA”) and passports across EU member states. In addition to the regulation of authorization and distribution, the European Commission established capital adequacy and risk management regulations, called Solvency II, that apply to insurers within the EU. Solvency II includes capital requirements, risk management and corporate governance frameworks, and financial reporting requirements, which are subject to MFSA regulatory oversight.Even though the United Kingdom exited the EU, United Kingdom insurance regulation generally follows the same insurance directives and Solvency II principles, with the Prudential Regulatory Authority overseeing Solvency II principles and the Financial Conduct Authority overseeing the market conduct principles within those