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China Regulator Orders Large Insurers, Banks to Prepare ‘Living Wills’ to Handle Risks

BEIJING — China’s banking and insurance watchdog issued rules on Wednesday requiring sizable banks and insurers to prepare recovery plans in the unlikely event that they run into financial trouble, as the regulator seeks to strengthen the safety net of …

Fed Gives AIG, Pru More Time to Submit ‘Living Wills’

U.S. bank regulators disclosed on Wednesday how eight of the nation’s largest banks would wind themselves down in the face of collapse and gave American International Group Inc (AIG) and Prudential Financial Inc. an extra year to submit their doomsday …

Global Banks Agree to Swap Contracts to Ease Too-Big-to-Fail

Eighteen global banks have agreed to swaps contract changes designed to work with government rules for unwinding failed firms, a step that may help end the view that some financial companies are “too big to fail.” Counterparties of banks involved …

Report: U.S. Making Progress Against ‘Too-Big-to-Fail’ Bailouts

For the past year, a special team of U.S. bank regulators has been on a quiet mission to end the belief on Wall Street that large banks are “too big to fail.” The team from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. …