Eric Dinallo – 2008 Financial Crisis Dinallo – List (p60) – Response to Written Questions of the Senate Banking Committee from Eric Dinallo   “308 letter” “dinallo” “securities lending” Meetings 2008 0914 – GS-Starr-000000008 – 3p Subject: Board meeting conclude. We (TPG,KKR and GS)just met with company and advisors. Subsequently the insurance regulator. Explained we needed more…

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FSOC – Prudential – Determination and Dissents – Snippets 2013 0919 – FSOC/Prudential – Basis for the Financial Stability Oversight Council’s Final Determination Regarding Prudential Financial, Inc. – 12p Pages 1/2 (p1) – ….section 113 of the Dodd-Frank Act and the Council’s interpretive guidance regarding nonbank financial company determinations (Interpretive Guidance),1 —–  the Council has voted…

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WSJ – Wall Street Journal wsj.com/ Leslie Scism 2020 0107 – WSJ – It’s the Hottest Thing in Life Insurance. Are Buyers Aware of the Risks? Regulators worry insurers are underplaying the dangers of a product tied to the performance of the U.S. stock market, by Leslie Scism – [link] One concern is that existing consumer materials…

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Regulatory Forbearance 2021 – AP – Regulatory Forbearance in the U.S. Insurance Industry: The Effects of Removing Capital Requirements for an Asset Class, by Bo Becker (Stockholm School of Economics, CEPR, and ECGI), Marcus M. Opp (Stockholm School of Economics and CEPR), Farzad Saidi University of Bonn and CEPR), The Review of Financial Studies, Volume…

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Government Hearings – 2008 Risk Management and Its Implications for Systemic Risk: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Securities and Insurance and Investment of the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundred Tenth Congress, Second Session, on Risk Management and Its Implications for Systemic Risk, Thursday, June 19, 2008 United States.…

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