On December 18, President Obama signed into law the Insurance Capital Standards Clarification Act of 2014 (the Act). The Act makes it clear that the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve (the Fed) is not required to apply...more
12/19/2014
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s (CFTC) Division of Swap Dealer and Intermediary Oversight (Division) recently addressed for the first time the CFTC’s definition of a “swap” as it applies to a specific insurance...more
5/29/2014
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Beneficiaries ,
CFTC ,
Dodd-Frank ,
Hedges ,
Life Insurance ,
No-Action Letters ,
Pensions ,
Reinsurance ,
Retirement Plan ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ,
Swap Dealers ,
Swaps ,
Title VII
With the first month of the year behind us, this report outlines major insurance topics that we will be watching throughout 2014.
Forces, trends and events that we believe will affect regulation, transactions and...more
On December 10, 2013, the Federal Reserve Board (FRB), the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the Securities and Exchange Commission, and the Commodity Futures Trading...more
1/15/2014
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Banks ,
CFTC ,
Collateralized Debt Obligations ,
Dodd-Frank ,
Federal Reserve ,
OCC ,
Proprietary Trading ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ,
Trust Preferred Securities ,
Volcker Rule
On December 12, 2013, the Federal Insurance Office (FIO) of the U.S. Department of the Treasury released its much anticipated study, How to Modernize and Improve the System of Insurance Regulation in the United States...more
On July 31, 2013, Governor Cuomo signed into law New York Assembly Bill 7807A, which adopts key changes to the regulation of insurance holding company systems in New York under Article 15 of the New York Insurance Law and the...more