Regulation & Compliance
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 ...
A.M. Best Revises Give Thumbs Up To Lloyd’s
On Friday, A.M. Best Europe–Rating Services Limited announced that it revised the outlook of its A (excellent) financial strength rating for Lloyd's to positive, affirming the rating and moving the ...
U.S. SEC Says As Red Flags Waved, SAC’s Cohen Waved Them
"Failure to supervise" is not the sort of charge that typically grabs Wall Street's attention. Unless the target is one of the world's best-known hedge fund managers. In an order on Friday, the U.S. ...
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 ...
SEC Readies Rule on Disclosure of CEO-to-Worker Pay Ratios
Public companies would be required to disclose how much more their chief executives are paid than rank-and-file workers under a rule to be proposed next month by U.S. securities regulators, according ...
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 ...
SEC Bans Gupta From Director, Officer Roles; Imposes $13.9M Fine
Former Goldman Sachs Group Inc. director Rajat Gupta was ordered to pay a $13.9 million civil penalty and banned from serving as an officer or director of a public company for having illegally passed ...
Paint Makers’ $900M Lead Paint Trial Underway in California
BP Plc's Atlantic Richfield Co. is among five companies fighting a public nuisance lawsuit in state court seeking $900 million to replace or contain lead paint in millions of California homes. In a ...