On March 7, 2018, the Housing and Insurance Subcommittee of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Financial Services heard testimony on the issue of duplicative regulation of insurers that are also savings and loan...more
On Oct. 26, 2017, the U.S. Treasury Department (Treasury) released the latest installment in a series of reports on financial regulation required by the president’s Feb. 3 executive order on the financial system....more
12/1/2017
/ Asset Management ,
Capital Markets ,
CFTC ,
Commodity Pool ,
Dodd-Frank ,
ETFs ,
Executive Orders ,
Financial Regulatory Reform ,
Insurance Industry ,
Investment Funds ,
Liquidity Risk Management Rule ,
Stress Tests ,
Trump Administration ,
U.S. Treasury ,
Volcker Rule
We are seeing Interval Alts (registered investment funds featuring hedge fund-like liquidity) being used for dedicated insurance-linked securities (ILS) strategies. ILS, such as catastrophe, or "cat," bonds, provide...more
At the recent National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) Summer National Meeting held in Philadelphia from August 6, 2017, to August 9, 2017, the NAIC continued its work on group capital calculation standards,...more
Our two-part article on non-con and true sale issues in insurance contexts continues with a deeper dive into the considerations that distinguish these issues from similar remoteness principles in a Bankruptcy Code context. In...more
This two-part article discusses the key concerns, from a non-consolidation and true sale perspective, that arise when an insurance company, as opposed to a bankruptcy-eligible entity, is a sponsor/seller in a securitization...more
The federal government, state insurance regulators and international regulatory bodies are all actively engaged in the development of capital standard calculations to be employed in the supervision of entities in their...more
OCIE Highlights Frequent Topics for Compliance Deficiencies for Investment Advisers -
On Feb. 7, 2017, the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC’s) Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations (“OCIE”) published...more
3/2/2017
/ Books & Records ,
Chief Compliance Officers ,
Covered Agreement ,
Custody Rule ,
Cyber Attacks ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Breach ,
Data Protection ,
Enforcement Actions ,
Ethics ,
EU ,
Filing Requirements ,
Financial Institutions ,
Financial Services Industry ,
Form ADV ,
Insurance Industry ,
Investment Adviser ,
Investment Advisers Act of 1940 ,
NYDFS ,
OCIE ,
Registered Investment Companies (RICs) ,
Regulatory Oversight ,
Reinsurance ,
Risk Alert ,
Rule 204-2 ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ,
Strict Compliance
On Jan. 13, 2017, the U.S. Department of the Treasury and the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative ("USTR") released the terms of the long-awaited covered agreement between the United States and the European Union (the...more
1/28/2017
/ Covered Agreement ,
Dodd-Frank ,
EU ,
Exchange of Information ,
Financial Solvency ,
Insurance Industry ,
Memorandum of Understanding ,
ORSA ,
Preemption ,
Prudential Standards ,
Regulatory Oversight ,
Reinsurance ,
U.S. Treasury ,
USTR