MetLife Inc., the biggest U.S. life insurer, was tentatively categorized as a systemically important financial institution (SIFI) by a panel...
Articles by Ian Katz and Zachary Tracer
A U.S. council of regulators is poised to label MetLife Inc. a potential threat to the financial system, subjecting the...

U.S. Treasury Secretary Jacob J. Lew pushed back against Republican efforts to curtail the work of a council of regulators...
Steven Kandarian got MetLife Inc. out of banking to escape Federal Reserve oversight. Now, the insurer is fighting again to...
Regulators are starting to scrutinize Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. to determine whether it is important enough to the financial...

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is calling for rules that would make it more difficult for a group of regulators...
U.S. Treasury Secretary Jacob J. Lew said he is “stepping on the accelerator” to implement the Dodd-Frank Act and warned...

American International Group Inc. and General Electric Co.’s finance unit were designated systemically important by U.S. regulators, a ruling the...