• On 21 May 2013, Moody’s announced rating actions on MBIA Insurance Corp., National Public Finance Guarantee Corp., MBIA Inc. and other related entities. Because of the large number of credits across several asset classes affected by these rating actions, including Moody's-rated securities that are guaranteed or "wrapped" by these companies, ratings appearing on this website may not yet reflect current information. For current information on affected credits, please visit www.moodys.com/fig.
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Financial Regulation
 
This site contains Moody’s Investors Service research on banking regulation and risk management across all geographical franchises. We endeavour to provide our subscribers with up to the date commentaries on the latest developments in banking regulation and what they mean for banks ratings. We also provide commentaries on evolving risk management and risk governance practices and their credit implications.
  

Highlights

  • 22 May 2013
    • New derivatives rules are credit negative for major swap dealers
      The recently finalized rules by the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission will govern interest rate, credit default and commodity swap trading and execution. A second set define parameters for swap execution facilities. Both these regulatory changes are credit negative as they will reduce the profitability of these business lines for major swap dealers... Full Report​​​
    • New York regulators' scrutiny of alternative-investment-manager-owned life insurers is credit positive
      The New York Department of Financial Services subpoena of several alternative investment managers is credit positive for affected life insurance companies as regulatory scrutiny could lead to more conservative investment strategies. In addition, it is credit positive for the more traditional fixed indexed annuity providers that have maintained strong investment quality and could be at a pricing disadvantage from competitors investing in higher yielding and more risky assets... Full Report​​​​
  • 9 May 2013
    • Global insurance regulators battle solvency modernization delays, ratings likely unaffected
      Global insurance solvency regimes will undergo significant changes in coming years, moving toward more principles-based approaches with incentives for improved risk management. However, the new regulatory regimes and any resulting change in regulatory ratio levels are not expected to directly affect ratings... Full Report​​​​

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