Regulation & Compliance
Insurance-Linked Securities on Track to Break Issuance Records: Willis
Insurance-linked securities (ILS) will break issuance records last set in 2007 as the embrace of alternative investments in the property/casualty industry continues to grow, according to an update ...
S&P Has More Homework to Do on Hedge-Fund Reinsurers: Execs
Responding to skepticism about the business models and risk cultures of a new crop of Bermuda reinsurers expressed by Standard & Poor's in a recent report, executives of three recent startups ...
The FSB Wants Feedback on Policies For Systemically Important Insurers
The Financial Stability Board (FSB) is seeking public comment on proposed guidance "for the identification of the critical functions and critical shared services for systemically important insurers." ...
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 ...