Insurance giant Allianz SE is looking to replace the biggest bond remaining under Europe’s old regulatory regime as it taps the market for new issues early on this year. The Munich-based insurer priced a new €1 billion junior note on …
Britain’s plans to change capital requirement rules for insurers following its departure from the European Union are about tailoring them to local conditions rather than any “gratuitous deregulatory agenda,” its financial services minister said. Britain inherited the Solvency II insurance …
AM Best believes local companies in the Philippine insurance industry will still face significant pressure on underwriting growth and profitability amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic with the recent rejection of a proposal to relax minimum capital requirements. A new Best’s …
The U.S. Federal Reserve will hold an open meeting this coming Friday on proposals, in the works for more than five years, for capital requirements and other rules for insurance companies. The central bank’s announcement last Friday came a week …
The U.S. Federal Reserve is considering a proposal for new nationwide insurance capital standards that would rely heavily on the current system of state-based regulations, according to a copy of the plan seen by Reuters and people familiar with the …
Nine too-big-to-fail insurers, including American International Group Inc., Allianz SE and MetLife Inc., must start reporting capital ratios next year using a method presented by regulators today. The International Association of Insurance Supervisors has completed drafting “the first-ever global insurance …
U.S. regulators would gain flexibility in how they apply capital standards to insurance companies under a bill approved today by the Senate. The bill, approved by a voice vote, would ease a Dodd-Frank Act provision that imposes bank-like capital standards …
The following a statement by Senator Susan Collins, a former state insurance regulator, in testimony before the Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Protection today on capital requirements for insurance companies. She has authored an amendment to the Dodd-Frank Act …
