Insurers, State Regulators Try to Block Bank-Like Rules by Federal Reserve July 3, 2013 By Craig Torres and Zachary Tracer MetLife Inc. and Prudential Financial Inc. have been joined by state regulators challenging the Federal Reserve on how to oversee...
Report: U.S. Making Progress Against ‘Too-Big-to-Fail’ Bailouts April 15, 2013 By David Henry and Emily Stephenson For the past year, a special team of U.S. bank regulators has been on a quiet mission to end the...
Saft Commentary: The Fed Discovers Chicanery February 14, 2013 By James Saft Acknowledging that sometimes banks chisel clients and bank employees chisel banks may sound obvious to you, but for the Federal...
U.S. Regulators Urge Flexibility in Basel III Rules for Banks, Insurers November 30, 2012 By Emily Stephenson U.S. lawmakers and state financial regulators on Thursday called on federal officials to revamp proposed rules that would force financial...
Swiss Re Chief Economist Sees Rising Rates by Year End June 22, 2012 On the heels of the decision by the U.S. Federal Reserve to maintain the target fed funds rate at zero...
MetLife Receives Fed Extension on Capital Plans June 20, 2012 By en Berkowitz and Rick Rothacker MetLife Inc. received a three-month extension from the U.S. Federal Reserve on its plans to return capital to shareholders, the...
Geneva Association Reminds Federal Reserve Insurers Aren’t Banks May 2, 2012 The Swiss-based insurance think tank Geneva Association has followed up on its recent report as to whether or not some...
New York Fed Taps 5 Banks to Bid for AIG Bonds: WSJ February 7, 2012 The Federal Reserve Bank of New York has invited five banks to bid for mortgage bonds of insurer American International...
Swiss Re’s Chief Economist Sees Fed Actions Calming Debt Crisis January 27, 2012 Swiss Re’s Chief Economist, Kurt Karl, has predicted that the decision by the Federal Reserve to maintain the target fed...
Federal Reserve Paid Government $77 Billion in 2011 January 12, 2012 By Martin Crutsinger The Federal Reserve paid the federal government $76.9 billion in 2011, the second highest amount in history. The central bank...