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Several years before announcing the first “off-channel” communications enforcement action, the SEC and FINRA cautioned broker-dealers and investment advisers about...more
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South Carolina and Tennessee updated their respective credit for reinsurance statutes consistent with NAIC Credit for Reinsurance Model Law 785. Idaho and Tennessee adopted the NAIC Credit for Reinsurance Model Regulation...more
On March 6, 2017, the Governor of South Dakota signed into law House Bill 1045 conforming South Dakota law to the current version of the Credit for Reinsurance NAIC Model Law (Model 785). ...more
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The minutes of the April 4, 2016 task force meeting included the following seven items of activity:
- Adopted its Jan. 6, 2016 and Dec. 9, 2015 minutes (which were attached), which reflected the adoption of revisions to...more
On March 17, 2016, the Office of Financial Research, an agency created by the Dodd-Frank Act of 2010 to analyze risk to the financial system, released a brief discussing “recent policy measures” by the NAIC “and the data that...more
Effective January 24, 2016, Maine amended Bureau of Insurance Rule 740, Credit for Reinsurance, in order to implement the newly adopted provision of the Maine Credit-for-Reinsurance Act that allows reduced collateral for...more