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The Standard Formula: Encyclopaedia of Prudential Solvency – Chapter 5: Prudential Solvency Regimes in the Middle East

This chapter discusses the prudential solvency regimes in the Middle East, a crucial topic for anyone involved in the insurance industry. The Middle East is an exciting place to be in today’s insurance market. It is expected...more

A&O Shearman

UK Government publishes 10-year industrial strategy plan

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The UK Government has published a policy paper outlining its industrial strategy. The strategy centres around eight priority sectors (the IS-8), including financial services. The UK government's ambition is to establish the...more

Proskauer Rose LLP

Regulation Round Up - May 2025

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Welcome to the Regulation Round Up, a regular bulletin highlighting the latest developments in UK and EU financial services regulation....more

Hogan Lovells

Unlocking Liquidity: How secondary sales support pension schemes in insurance buy-in/buy-outs

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The market for insured risk transfer solutions for UK defined benefit pension schemes has continued to grow in recent years, as increased competition among insurers and improved funding positions has enabled more and more...more

Seward & Kissel LLP

SEC Issues Industry Letter Allowing Insurance Companies to File Certain Financial Statements

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Who may be interested: Insurance Companies - Quick Take: In an Industry Letter, the SEC’s Division of Investment Management stated that insurance companies may file financial statements prepared in accordance with...more

Woodruff Sawyer

If Gen AI Is a Bubble, Here's How Investment Managers Can Stay Protected

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In 2024, global venture investment in generative artificial intelligence (Gen AI) grew to more than $56 billion, a 94% year-over-year increase from 2023. From 2023 to 2025, Nvidia’s market cap has grown from about $500...more

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The Evolution of German Investment Regulation: A New Era for Institutional Investors

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In February 2025, the German investment landscape experienced a significant shift with the amendment of the German Ordinance Act, Anlageverordnung (AnlV), through the Eighth Amendment Regulation (8. VAGVÄndV)....more

Alston & Bird

Structured Finance Spectrum – Winter 2025

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Welcome to the latest edition of the Spectrum, covering hot-topic issues in the structured finance markets in the U.S. and UK. This edition features a close look at business development companies, an introduction to project...more

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Insurance and Asset Managers in the Cayman Islands: A Perfect Marriage?

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The significant growth in life & annuity reinsurance in the Cayman Islands has showed no signs of slowing in the past few years and a material ingredient of this growth is Cayman reinsurers sponsored by large private equity /...more

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The EU’s Digital Operational Resilience Act Comes Into Effect

The European Union’s Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) came into effect on January 17, 2025. DORA aims to harmonise rules concerning the provision of information and communication technology (ICT) services to...more

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Just a few months left before DORA enforcement: Time to Take Action

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The Digital Operational Resilience Act EU 2022/2554 (DORA) constitutes a groundbreaking EU regulation designed to establish a unified framework for bolstering cybersecurity and operational resilience within the financial...more

Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer

NAIC Committee Adopts New Procedures Allowing Discretion on Rated Securities

Insurers and other capital markets participants, including sponsors of structured assets, should note an important development from the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) that could result in regulatory...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Texas Courts Delay Implementation of DOL’s Investment Advice Fiduciary Rule

Two federal courts in Texas have separately ordered stays delaying the effective date of the Department of Labor’s (DOL) final “investment advice fiduciary rule” under Section 3(21) of the Employee Retirement Income Security...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

The New Fiduciary Rule (36): Confusion about Annual Retrospective Reviews

The Department of Labor has issued its final regulation defining fiduciary status for investment advice to retirement investors and the related exemptions for prohibited conflicts—PTE 2020-02 and 84-24. The exemptions provide...more

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

SEC grants no-action relief to delay payment from variable insurance contracts to protect vulnerable adults in cases of suspected...

Recently, in response to a request from the Committee of Annuity Insurers, the staff in the Chief Counsel's Office of the Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC) Division of Investment Management issued a no-action letter...more

Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer

NAIC Body Issues Guidance on Affiliated Investment Management for Insurers

Insurers that outsource investment management to affiliates should consider new guidance from insurance regulators on such arrangements. On March 19, 2024, following its March 16 session at the National Association of...more

King & Spalding

NAIC's Focus on Investment Management Agreements (IMAs) involving Private Equity-Owned Insurers

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As private equity investors continue to increase their presence in the insurance industry with acquisitions of insurers and reinsurance of blocks of insurance contracts through insurer portfolio companies and segregated...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

The New Fiduciary Rule (10): What is An Investment? (Part 2)

The U.S. Department of Labor has released its package of proposed changes to the regulation defining nondiscretionary fiduciary advice and to the exemptions for conflicts and compensation for investment recommendations to...more

Carlton Fields

DOL Tries Once Again To Define What Constitutes Investment Advice Under ERISA

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On Friday, November 3, the Federal Register published the U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) latest attempt to redefine who is an “investment advice fiduciary” under ERISA. In conjunction with the regulatory proposal, the...more

McDermott Will & Schulte

"Control" of Insurers: A Concept That Remains a Work in Progress

The concept of “control” of insurers received significant attention from state insurance regulators last year and will receive even more in 2023. We wrote a brief report in April 2022 following the New York Department of...more

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Turning up the Magnification: Regulators Have PE-Controlled Insurers under the Microscope (Again)

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For much of the past 10 years, the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) and individual state insurance regulators have highlighted their awareness of the increasing number of insurers controlled by private...more

Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer

New NAIC Guidance to Focus on Funds’ Derivatives Activity

Insurers and fund advisers should consider newly proposed guidance from insurance regulators on funds’ use of derivatives in the context of regulatory capital treatment of a fund’s units, shares or interests. Once finalized,...more

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PRIVATE PLACEMENT LIFE INSURANCE WEBINAR

Discussion Points: a. Why financial advisors and life insurance agents should be selling PPLI now. b. An overview of the current lay of the land in PPLI. c. The important tax rules of PPLI. d. Planning examples using...more

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Fintech 2020: A Global Survey on the State of Financial Technology

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Letter from Our Co-Chairs - As the digital transformation of financial markets accelerates at breakneck speeds, fintech presents significant opportunities and challenges for both investors and innovators around the world. ...more

Bowditch & Dewey

Record Low Interest Rates Let You Have Your Cake and Eat It Too – Life Insurance, Investments & Intra-family Loans

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At this time, unless Congress acts, the current lifetime estate tax exemption amount of $11,580,000 is set to sunset in 2025, which means that in 2026 it will revert to $5,000,000 per person, adjusted for inflation. Many...more

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