June 27, 2019
An international standard setting body has proposed a one-year delay and changes to the first global accounting rule for insurance contracts following industry calls for a cut in compliance costs and more time. The International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) published …
November 14, 2018
A global standards body has proposed a one-year delay to implementing its new accounting rule aimed at increasing visibility in how insurers earn money, after the industry said it needed more time to prepare for such a sweeping change. A …
May 18, 2017
Insurers in over 100 countries face a “once in a lifetime” accounting change from January 2021 with the introduction of a uniform international book-keeping standard, details of which will be published on Thursday. Twenty years in the works, the new …
March 1, 2017
As the insurance industry has closely followed developments regarding The New York State Department of Financial Services’ (DFS) cybersecurity regulation, concerns remain in terms of how the final regulation, set to go into effect March 1, may impact mid-sized companies …
April 15, 2015
Brokers and insurance agents providing retirement-savings advice would have to put clients’ interests ahead of their own under an Obama administration plan that will face stiff opposition from Wall Street and Republican lawmakers. The Labor Department proposal announced Tuesday is …