Archive

  • MetLife asks court to put Sifi appeal on hold

    25 April 2017

    Follows Trump's executive order to review FSOC designations

  • Insurers split on recovery and resolution planning

    16 March 2017

    As the IAIS looks to develop a market-wide approach to systemic risk, Eiopa is developing rules that will require recovery and resolution plans from all insurers regardless of their size. This broader approach to systemic risk has split industry opinion and pitted large firms against small. Callum Tanner reports

  • Mnuchin to review Sifi designation process

    02 March 2017

    First time overseeing FSOC meeting after Republican report sees "arbitrary and inconsistent" designations

  • Commissioner Hamm to join Protiviti Consulting

    29 December 2016

    Regulator will help firms with risk, compliance and cyber security

  • Trump election doesn't change AIG stance on Sifi designation

    18 November 2016

    But CEO says change of FSOC board could reduce importance of designation

  • Fed to adopt bank-like capital rule for too-big-to-fail insurers

    20 May 2016

    First version will allow few risk categories, but standard will become more granular over time

  • "ICS is not self-executing, it is something on the shelf"

    05 May 2016

    NAIC president John Huff tells Hugo Coelho how group capital rules may have little impact on US insurers and warns of the consequences of a covered agreement between the US and the EU

  • US regulators vote to keep Prudential Financial in list of systemic insurers

    18 December 2015

    Majority of FSOC members rejected insurer's arguments for withdrawing Sifi designation

  • US insurers denounce 'double standards' on systemic non-banks

    09 July 2015

    ACLI urges regulators reconsider approach to systemic insurers

  • Tying federal regulators in knots

    28 May 2015

    Insurers are increasing their lobbying efforts as legislation advances through Congress that is designed to limit the discretion of federal regulators in designating systemic firms and devising capital standards. Hugo Coelho reports