Regulation & Compliance
Practical ORSA Solutions for Challenged Insurers
After much anticipation, Own Risk and Solvency Assessment (ORSA) initiatives are now underway worldwide—taking effect in 2014 in Canada and 2015 in the United States, with similar initiatives ...
How Insurers Gain ‘Systemically Important’ Status May Be Tweaked
The U.S. top financial risk council may tweak the way in which it identifies insurers and other companies that are not banks as systemically important, a process the industry and politicians have ...
Hanover Insurance Gets Ratings Affirmation in Advance of Q3 Earnings
The Hanover Insurance Group doesn't release its 2014 third quarter financial results until Oct. 29. But Fitch Ratings has given the Massachusetts-based U.S. property/casualty insurer an early bit of ...
State, Federal Regulators Vow Cooperation Against Global Uniformity
State and federal insurance regulators insist they will make sure U.S. regulatory standards aren't being subsumed beneath a bid for international uniformity, though they will continue to strive for ...
AIG Trial Testimony: Billions in Bailout Bucks Came Through, Sans Paperwork
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York poured billions of dollars into rescuing American International Group Inc. in September 2008 without drawing up documents that would cement the government's ...
Report: Used-Car Dealers Focus of Loan Fraud Investigation
U.S. federal and state authorities are investigating used-car dealerships to examine if they are inflating borrowers' income or falsifying employment information on loan applications to ensure that ...
MBIA Lures Barclays Exec to Lead Muni-Bond Insurance Arm
MBIA Inc. hired Tom Weyl from Barclays Plc to head efforts to win business at its municipal- bond insurance unit. Weyl will start by year-end as managing director and head of new business development ...
Insurers Bullish on Private Market Assets for Diversification: BlackRock
Insurance companies around the world are making a significant move toward private market assets to diversify against the risks that have traditionally underpinned their businesses, according to a new ...