Systemic Risk Council

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  Split Decision On Turn

  By Susanne Sclafane, PropertyCasualty360.com, Arthur D. Postal, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  January 19, 2011

  NU Editors provide forecasts on developments in Washington and market conditions for 2011

• Split Decision On Turn

  By Susanne Sclafane, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  January 10, 2011

  Magazine editors are notorious for filling January opinion pages with predictions, and NU's editors are up to the task as well.

• Brown Backs Fin. Svcs. Bill, But Dems Still One Vote Shy

  By Arthur D. Postal, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  July 12, 2010

  Senate Democrats inched closer toward passage of financial services reform legislation today when Sen. Scott Brown, R-Mass., said he would vote for the measure.

• Tax Affecting Large Insurers Included in Financial Services Agreement

  By Arthur D. Postal, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  June 28, 2010

  House and Senate negotiators added at the last moment a tax on large financial institutions, including insurers, before completing work early today on sweeping financial services legislation.

• Tax Affecting Large Insurers Included In Fin. Svcs. Agreement

  By Arthur D. Postal, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  June 25, 2010

  House and Senate negotiators added at the last moment a tax on large financial institutions, including insurers, before completing work early today on sweeping financial services legislation.

• Financial Reform Bill Enters Home Stretch

  By Arthur D. Postal, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  May 31, 2010

  With an historic financial services regulatory reform bill about to enter the home stretch on Capitol Hill, insurance industry groups will keep lobbying to craft an acceptable compromise in reconciling the House and Senate versions.

• Senate Passes Sweeping Reform Bill

  By Arthur D. Postal, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  May 21, 2010

  The Senate late Thursday night passed historic legislation making the most sweeping changes to financial services regulation since the Depression by a vote of 59-39.

• Insurers Jockey For Adjustments As Vote Nears On Fin'l Reform Bill

  By Arthur D. Postal, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  May 17, 2010

  Winning an exemption for insurers from having to help pay to wind down failed non-insurance firms posing a systemic risk to the economy was the key priority for insurers

• State Regulators' Addition To Risk Council Supported

  By Arthur D. Postal, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  May 14, 2010

  State financial services regulators said they support having one of their members serving as a non-voting member of the Systemic Risk Council that would be created under financial service reform legislation.

• Amendment To Reform Bill Would Bar Insurer Assessment

  By Arthur D. Postal, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  May 7, 2010

  A bipartisan amendment to the financial services reform legislation in the U.S. Senate is aimed at exempting insurers from paying for the resolution of large non-insurance financial services companies.