MetLife systemic risk News

U.S. Regulator Pulls Back from MetLife’s ‘Too-Big-to-Fail’ Designation

The U.S. government and MetLife Inc. announced on Thursday they would jointly seek to dismiss an appeal over whether the insurance company should face stricter oversight as a key part of the financial system. MetLife and the Financial Stability Oversight …

U.S. Regulator Lifts Systemic Risk Tag on Slimmed-Down AIG

American International Group Inc. is no longer too big to fail. That was the ruling Friday from the Financial Stability Oversight Council, which said AIG, whose collapse in 2008 reverberated throughout the U.S. economy, was no longer a systemically important …

MetLife Systemic Risk Battle Not Over as U.S. Files Appeal

The U.S. government on Friday appealed a court decision that major insurer MetLife cannot be considered “too big to fail” in the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, according to a filing. U.S. Treasury Secretary Jack …

Judge Calls FSOC Review of MetLife ‘Fatally Flawed;’ Government Vows Appeal

The U.S. government panel that decided MetLife Inc. was too big to fail erred in not analyzing the insurer’s vulnerability to financial distress, according to the federal judge who rescinded that designation last week. U.S. District Judge Rosemary M. Collyer …

MetLife Wins Court Appeal to Strike Down Systemic Risk Tag

MetLife Inc. beat back a U.S. attempt to label it too big to fail, which would’ve put America’s biggest life insurer under tougher government scrutiny and forced it to put more money in reserves. A federal judge in Washington struck …

MetLife Seeks Documents from Systemic Risk Panel

MetLife asked a federal judge on Monday to force the U.S. government to hand over 500 pages of confidential records that relate to financial regulators’ decision to designate the insurance giant as systemically important. In a filing in U.S. District …

Systemic Risk Panel to Show Lawmakers Why Some Insurers Are Too Big to Fail

U.S. regulators will disclose to lawmakers more than 1,400 pages of documents explaining why companies such as American International Group Inc. and MetLife Inc. are subject to tougher oversight. The Financial Stability Oversight Council is providing the papers after Republicans …

MetLife May Get More Time For Living Will Due to Systemic Risk Appeal

U.S. bank regulators are scheduled to vote next week on whether to extend MetLife Inc.’s deadline for filing a so-called living will as the insurer sues the government for subjecting it to stricter oversight. The Federal Reserve and the Federal …

MetLife to Sue to Overturn Systemically Risky Designation

MetLife Inc. said it will sue in federal court as part of Chief Executive Officer Steve Kandarian’s effort to overturn a finding that the insurer is systemically important. A complaint will be filed today in Washington to oppose the U.S. …

MetLife Considers Appeal of Systemic Risk Label

MetLife Inc., the biggest U.S. life insurer by assets, was labeled a systemically important financial institution by a council of regulators and said it will consider whether to sue the government over the decision. The Financial Stability Oversight Council voted …