Insurance Regulation
Old-Fashioned Regulators Miss What’s New in Finance
Is the financial system any safer now than in 2008? There's been some progress but less than you might think. I argued last week that regulators should put in place much tougher bank capital ...
G-SII Designations Might Fuel Restructurings: S&P
New requirements that will be imposed on insurers that the Group of 20's Financial Stability Board has designated to be global systemically important insurers may motivate G-SII restructurings down ...
Some Question Labeling 9 Global Insurers Systemically Important
Europe's insurers criticised the approach taken by international regulators which named firms considered systemically important as they try to reduce financial risks from the sector. Two global ...
Fitch Sees Limited Credit Improvement For G-SIIs; Predicts Some Will Work To Get Off List
Reacting to the Financial Stability Board's identification of nine global systemically important insurers, Fitch Ratings sees only a "modest improvement" in the insurers' credit profiles, with higher ...
9 Global Insurers to Face Higher Capital Standards, Tougher Supervision
Top insurers will have to hold more capital from 2019 to cover risks they pose to the financial system should they go bust, global regulators said on Thursday. Regulators also released an initial ...
Conn. Says Insurers Must Complete Climate Risk Survey
Connecticut Insurance Commissioner Thomas Leonardi has decided that about 110 Connecticut-based insurance companies will be required to complete a survey describing what they are doing to address ...
MetLife Nears Systemic Financial Institution Risk Tag
MetLife Inc., the largest U.S. life insurer, was moved to the last stage of a regulatory review that may impose extra Federal Reserve oversight. The Financial Stability Oversight Council, a group of ...
SEC Officials Frustrated with Slow Pace of Dodd-Frank Rules
Top U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission officials are frustrated over lack of progress in finalizing rules for credit rating agencies and asset-backed securities (ABS), seen by regulators as ...