Regulation & Compliance
P/C Earnings Soar in Q2; Specialty Insurer Premiums Grow Most: Moody’s
In spite of slowing rate hikes, property/casualty insurers rated by Moody's reported an aggregate 58 percent jump in bottom-line results for second-quarter 2013, with combined ratio improvements and ...
U.K. Banks to Pay $2.4 Billion to Settle Insurance Mis-Selling: Sources
Britain's biggest banks are close to an agreement with regulators to pay as much as 1.5 billion pounds ($2.4 billion) to compensate customers wrongly sold insurance for credit-card and identity ...
Assured Guaranty, JPMorgan Agree to End Mortgage Litigation
Assured Guaranty Ltd. and JPMorgan Chase & Co. agreed to settle lawsuits filed by the bond insurer accusing the bank's EMC Mortgage and Bear Stearns units of making misrepresentations about ...
SEC’s JPMorgan China Probe Threatens Cozy Tradition of ‘Client Hires’
The U.S. government's bribery investigation into JPMorgan's employment of at least two Chinese bankers has prompted banks and other corporations across the globe to take a close look at their hiring ...
Allianz Mulls Carbon Credit Expansion After Indonesia Investment
Allianz SE, Europe's largest insurer, is considering expanding its business of buying carbon emission credits after getting enough of the certificates from a project in Indonesia to help offset its ...
Seven Straight Years of Reserve Releases: Fitch
Property/casualty industry prior-year loss reserves have developed favorably for seven straight calendar years, according to a new report from Fitch Ratings, which also says the industry reserve ...
Lloyd’s Insurers Face More Bond Losses on Fed Reserve Tapering
Insurers in the Lloyd's of London market, sideswiped by the Federal Reserve's plan to scale back debt purchases, may face more losses as rising Treasury yields erode the value of their short-term ...
Willis Redux of Aon-Berkshire Scheme Will Be Negative for Lloyd’s: Moody’s
Reacting to news that Willis Group Holdings is close to signing up insurers for a "passive underwriting scheme" at Lloyd's of London, Moody's Investor's Services said the new scheme would be a credit ...