SIFI News
MetLife to Challenge Systemic Risk Designation
MetLife Inc., the largest U.S. life insurer, is challenging a U.S. finding that it poses a potential risk to the financial system if it were to fail. MetLife requested a hearing before the Financial ...
Senate Panel to Consider ‘Too Big to Fail’ Report
A U.S. Senate panel will meet next Thursday to discuss results of a much anticipated government study that looked at whether the biggest banks can borrow at lower interest rates because investors ...
Bipartisan Bill Seeks to End Secrecy of ‘Too Big to Fail’ Panel
Democratic and Republican lawmakers are cooperating on legislation that would lift some of the secrecy around the U.S. council that decides which companies pose the biggest risks to the financial ...
House Committee Votes on TRIA With NARAB Amendment, FSOC Moratorium
The Republican House Financial Services Committee (HFSC) voted 32-27 in a party line split Friday morning to renew the Terrorism Risk Insurance Program (TRIA) for five years, sending the measure to ...
Senate Bill Would Free U.S. Insurers from Bank Capital Rules
The U.S. lawmaker who wrote a Dodd-Frank Act provision that imposes bank-like capital standards on the insurance industry introduced legislation to ease the requirements. Senator Susan Collins, a ...
Chamber Wants Tighter Rules on Systemically Risky Designations for Non-Banks
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is calling for rules that would make it more difficult for a group of regulators to subject financial companies to stricter oversight. A vote of three-quarters of the ...
Treasury Nominee Raskin Says Bank Rules Do Not Fit Insurers
President Barack Obama's nominee to serve as deputy U.S. Treasury Secretary told lawmakers on Wednesday she believes that large systemically important insurance companies should not face the same ...
Fed Nominee Yellen Promises to ‘Carefully Consider’ SIFI Rules for Insurers
Federal Reserve Vice Chairman Janet Yellen said the central bank will "carefully consider" how to apply new regulatory standards to insurance companies that fall under the central bank's supervision. ...