Hints and tips:
...After a quiet start to the week for earnings, the results calls will pick up during the coming few days with insurance a strong theme in the UK as Aviva, Legal & General, Hiscox and Royal London report figures...
...One thing that often gets forgotten about FT Alphaville is our close association with the Financial Times, a visually-distinct b2b publication based in the world’s 18th-biggest IPO market....
...“Certainly, the way we think about deposit insurance in the wake of Dodd-Frank is it requires congressional action for the [Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation] to provide a blanket, universal guarantee...
...Monetary policy Federal Reserve governor Michelle Bowman is set to participate in a conference hosted by the Tennessee Bankers Association in Nashville....
...The mounting burden on medical staff has forced authorities in Wyoming, Idaho, Kentucky and Tennessee to recruit soldiers from the National Guard to help with non-clinical tasks....
...Even in the midst of the longest bull market in history, it warned that its own Multiemployer Insurance Program was heading for insolvency by 2025, affecting 10m members....
...At first, employers lured staff with commercial insurance to pay hospital bills, then, in the mid-1960s, the government began to fund its own insurance plans....
...Goldman's association with Ms Fletcher has also been noticed outside the target market....
...The most common form of childhood cancer costs on average $292,000 to treat, says St Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee....
...According to industry data cited by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, the industry-wide combined ratio ran at about 50 per cent between 1999 and 2006, before jumping to almost 250 per...
...He said that administrative changes seem likely to prevail over legislative changes, noting that since 2008 the FHFA has introduced new private insurance rules, new servicing standards, the creation of a...
...Walt Disney began holding gay pride days at its theme parks in the early-1990s and extended health insurance benefits to its employees’ same-sex partners in 1995....
...Red 24 — The crisis management specialist has gained credibility from an association with Swiss insurance giant Allianz, while cost cutting helped send full-year pre-tax profits up by a quarter and the dividend...
...Emergency manager Kevyn Orr, who has said he hopes to see the city exit bankruptcy by October 15, continues to face opposition from bond insurers Financial Guaranty Insurance Co and Syncora....
...The legislation would replace Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac with a new Federal Mortgage Insurance Corporation – modelled around the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, which guarantees banking deposits....
...Situated in an old doctors’ clinic, the Arab American Association provides advice on everything from immigration to health insurance....
...AMR Corp, the bankrupt parent company of American Airlines, has offered to freeze, rather than terminate, the pension plans of many of its employees in a significant concession to the US pension insurance...
...Now the deals are being bought by “real money” investors such as pension funds, insurance companies and sometimes hedge funds....
...United Guaranty, an AIG subsidiary that sells mortgage insurance to lenders, is taking a different stance from rivals by saying it will not give up its right to cancel insurance protection if mortgage lenders...
...Elsewhere in the financial sector, S&P said it lowered insurers Knights of Columbus, New York Life, Northwestern Mutual, Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America and United Services Automobile...
...At the same time, Standard & Poor’s affirmed the ‘AA+’ ratings on the members of five other insurance groups–Assured Guaranty, Berkshire Hathaway, Guardian, Massachusetts Mutual, and Western & Southern–and...
...The Office of Comptroller of the Currency and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation have both criticised the Fed’s rule, while Ben Bernanke, chairman of the central bank, has acknowledged problems but...
...Mr Frederico blames US insurance regulators, which have failed to set clear capital rules and have split up companies such as Ambac and MBIA in an effort to protect holders of municipal insurance....
...Barack Obama missed a golden opportunity to overhaul the US healthcare system, says Phil Bredesen, the Democratic governor of Tennessee....
...Conrad Voldstad is CEO of the International Swaps and Derivatives Association...
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