May 31, 2016
The U.S. Federal Reserve will hold an open meeting this coming Friday on proposals, in the works for more than five years, for capital requirements and other rules for insurance companies. The central bank’s announcement last Friday came a week …
May 12, 2015
The head of the Senate Banking Committee unveiled his long-awaited bill to toughen oversight of the Federal Reserve and ease the regulatory burden on dozens of banks, setting off what could be intense negotiations with Democrats. In legislation that Senator …
March 29, 2015
The U.S. Federal Reserve is considering a proposal from life insurers that could delay the implementation of a costly nationwide capital framework for the $1 trillion industry, according to records of a recent meeting between the two sides seen by …
December 11, 2014
A measure that would ease capital and liquidity standards for insurers under the Dodd-Frank Act was approved by the U.S. House of Representatives. The House unanimously passed the bill Wednesday to give the Federal Reserve flexibility in setting the standards. …
September 17, 2014
The Federal Reserve would get more flexibility to set separate capital standards for systemically important insurance companies under legislation passed by the U.S. House of Representatives. The measure, adopted yesterday as part of a package of changes to the Dodd-Frank …
June 3, 2014
U.S. regulators would gain flexibility in how they apply capital standards to insurance companies under a bill approved today by the Senate. The bill, approved by a voice vote, would ease a Dodd-Frank Act provision that imposes bank-like capital standards …
June 3, 2014
Steven Kandarian got MetLife Inc. out of banking to escape Federal Reserve oversight. Now, the insurer is fighting again to avoid the central bank’s reach. Kandarian, MetLife’s chief executive officer, has called regulatory uncertainty the primary challenge to meeting profit …