
Aviva’s Direct Line business has been fined £10.6 million by the Bank of England’s banking stability watchdog after wrongly calculating the balance sheet strength of its underwriting subsidiary over two years.
The Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) said Direct Line’s main underwriter, UK Insurance Limited (UKI), miscalculated its balance sheet during 2023 and 2024 due to “ineffective preventative and detective controls and resourcing issues” across its finance and actuarial operations.