European Captives Forum

The European Captive Forum (ECF) is the continent’s largest gathering for captive-insurance owners, regulators, and service providers, attracting 800+ delegates and 350 risk managers. The 2025 theme—“Captives on the Rise”—explores parametric solutions, supply-chain volatility, and AI-driven claims analytics. Malta’s PCC framework garners significant attention during a comparative domicile session featuring regulators from Luxembourg, Vermont, and Malta’s MFSA Deputy Director Alfred Parnis. Panelists dissect liquidity optimisation, ESG-reporting alignment, and Solvency II proportionality—areas where Malta’s Insurance Business Act offers distinctive advantages. Breakout “lab” sessions simulate captive capital-relief scenarios, employing case studies from European multinationals and Maltese shipping conglomerates.

An innovation zone showcases blockchain-verified policy issuance, echoing Malta’s digital-ledger legislation. Evening networking at Luxembourg’s Philharmonie fosters decision-maker rapport. For Maltese managers, ECF provides a pipeline to CFOs evaluating EU domiciles; for European corporates, Malta offers a cost-efficient, English-speaking alternative. The forum’s thought-leadership outputs—white papers on transfer-pricing governance and employee-benefit captives—equip Maltese lawyers, actuaries, and auditors with IP that can underpin advisory mandates long after the conference lights dim.

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