Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

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  ACLI concerned with US GAAP proposal

  By Liz Festa  |  May 3, 2013

  Insurers with thrifts or S&Ls would have to account for their liabilities in accordance with GAAP.

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  Senators raise concerns about proposed capital standards for SIFIs

  By Arthur D. Postal  |  November 15, 2012

  The June proposal to implement the so-called “Basel III” standard would require banks and SIFI non-banks such as insurance companies to maintain “loss-absorbing capital” of at least 7 percent of risk-weighted assets.

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  U.S. banking regulators delay Basel III capital rules applying to insurers' thrifts, banks

  By Elizabeth Festa  |  November 9, 2012

  Insurers who do not intend to dethrift or sell their banks will have more time to try and lobby the Fed to ease some of the standards as they would apply to insurance companies.

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  Senators tell Feds to back off bank-centric standards for insurers

  By Elizabeth Festa  |  October 18, 2012

  The issue involves looming capital standards directed at insurers from new rules that grew out of the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act.

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  Is the Fed rethinking bank metrics for overseeing insurers?

  By Arthur D. Postal  |  October 2, 2012

  An insurance analyst says recent action by the Federal Reserve Board regarding MetLife and its bank implies the Fed may be rethinking the use of bank metrics in regulating insurance companies.

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  Insurers Working to Thwart Federal Regulation

  By Arthur D. Postal and Elizabeth D. Festa  |  August 28, 2012

  Insurance companies and trade groups—both property and casualty and life—are pulling out all the stops in an effort to thwart or delay the Federal Reserve Board’s efforts to impose consolidated regulation of them through its new authority to oversee thrift holding companies.

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  The Implications of Federal Regulation

  By Elizabeth Festa  |  August 14, 2012

  What will federal regulation of insurance holding companies like AIG look like?

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  Insurer Thrifts to be Subject to Bank Rules

  By Arthur D. Postal  |  August 10, 2012

  Insurers that operate thrifts would be subject to the same capital standards as banks at the holding company level except for certain unique insurance activities under new capital standards being proposed by federal regulators.

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  The SEC Brings the Hammer to Rogue Advisors

  By Harry Lew  |  July 12, 2012

  In the latest installment of rogue advisors, the SEC charges 14 advisors with selling illegal securities as part of a $415 million Ponzi scheme.

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  Lawsuit Challenges Constitutionality of FSOC

  By Arthur D. Postal  |  June 26, 2012

  A small Texas bank and a conservative Washington think tank have joined to file a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the Financial Stability Oversight Council.