Bank – Index ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ A AIG – Banklike American Banker Back to top B Bagehot Bankassurance Bankers Bankruptcy Banks Banks and Life Insurance – Similar Products / Activities Banks Selling Life Insurance Banks – Government Hearings Banks – Risks Bank Failures Bank Holding Company Act of 1956 Bank – Failure Bank – Index Bank-like BCCI…

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Semantics Pursuing this thought further brings to light the fact that our nomenclature in this field is not only poor semantics but also far from precise.  —  Ralph E. Edward 1955 –  SOA – Analysis of Approximate Valuation Methods, Society of Actuaries – 16p Jesse M. Schwartz:  Why are people so reluctant to call Total Life…

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Bond Lending re: Bond Lending / [Securities Lending] There was also some discussion of the lack of liquidity associated with this program and it was felt that that is certainly consideration which must be taken into effect by companies contemplating such transactions. 1986-1, NAIC Proceedings – MINUTES WORKING GROUP ON EMERGING ISSUES CHICAGO ILLINOIS – NOVEMBER 1985…

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Bespeaks Caution Doctrine Judge Pauley held that this disclosure was inadequate: [W]arnings of specific risks like those in the ARM Prospectus do not shelter defendants from liability if they fail to disclose hard facts critical to appreciating the magnitude of the risks described…. As aptly put by Judge Pollack in the context of the bespeaks…

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Gene Park AIG-FP FCIC Interview “Confidential Witness” Eugene Park, aka Gene Park – AIG – American International Group, Inc. 2008 Securities Litigation – 61. In further connection with the CWs referred to in the Complaint, Lead Plaintiff had earlier provided AIG’s counsel with the identity of one of the CWs that Lead Plaintiff had noticed…

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Gorton Model AIGFP Gary Gorton 2010 0701 – FCIC – Hearing – 2008 Financial Crisis and Derivatives, Day 2 – [PDF-313p] Executives Panel – [VIDEO-CSPAN] AIG and Goldman Sachs Executives AIG: Bensinger, Forster, Habayeb 2010 0701 – FCIC – Hearing – Testimony of Andrew Forster Before the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission (FCIC) – 4p Gene Parks…

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Q: How Involved Was Gary Gorton With The AIGFP MultiSector CDS Business? Joe Cassano – FCIC Interview (mp3) – Involved Alan Frost – FCIC Interview (mp3) – Involved Andrew Forster – FCIC Interview (mp3) – Involved Gary Gorton – FCIC Interview (mp3) – Not Involved 2002-2006 Gene Parks – FCIC Interview (mp3) – Not Involved …

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AIG – Media 2023 0728 – TheStreet – What Happened to AIG? Did It Get a Bailout? – The world’s largest insurance company received an astounding $180 billion from the U.S. government during the financial crisis of 2007–2008, by Laura Rodini – [link] pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/oral-history/financial-crisis/tags/aig/ 2008  2008 0513 – NYT – Maurice Greenberg tells Board that AIG…

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Patricia A. McCoy 2015 – LR – Systemic Risk Oversight and the Shifting Balance of State and Federal Authority over Insurance – 56p

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