FDIC Outlines Strategy For When Big Financial Firms Fail May 14, 2012 By Marcy Gordon The next time a big bank or financial firm fails, regulators hope to avoid a major blow to the economy...
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...
Are Some Insurers ‘Globally Systemic Important Financial Institutions? April 13, 2012 By Charles E. Boyle A report from the Geneva Association, “Reflections on a High-Quality G-SIFI Designation Process in Insurance,” authored by Daniel Haefeli and...
Moody’s Reports on Proposed Systemic Risk Rules for Insurers November 8, 2011 A key ratings agency says that recently proposed guidelines for identifying which insurers would qualify as systemic risks represent an...
2 Life Insurers Meet Systemic Risk Criteria October 13, 2011 Only two life insurers — MetLife Inc.. and Prudential Financial Inc. — meet the newly developed requirements to be considered...
U.S. Regulators Propose Threshold for Defining Systemic Risk Firms October 12, 2011 U.S. regulators pondering which non-bank financial firms are large enough to warrant additional oversight have proposed a $50 billion asset...
U.S. to Reveal Criteria for Systemic Risk Insurers Today October 11, 2011 By Dave Clarke U.S. regulators Tuesday are set to give nervous insurance companies, mutual funds and other big players in financial markets a...
Big Insurers May Escape Capital Surcharges Under Global Regulations August 16, 2011 By Noriyuki Hirata and Rachel Armstrong New rules to ensure no insurance company is too big to fail are set to be drawn up in time...
MetLife to Sell Banking Unit to Avoid ‘Too Big To Fail’ Regulation July 22, 2011 By Ben Berkowitz and Paritosh Bansal MetLife, the largest life insurance company in the United States, has put its banking operations up for sale to avoid...
Insurers Seek Separation from Banks for Systemic Risk Regulation July 14, 2011 U.S. insurance company trade groups have sent a letter to President Obama requesting his assistance with G20 leaders in efforts...