Description: This presentation, session number 4PD, took place at the 2000 Annual Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held October 15-18 in Chicago. The panelists pose this question: “now that the Financial Services Modernization Law is about a year old, how are banks and insurance companies repositioning themselves?” Topics include new or modified strategies, any imminent changes in the federal law, whether legislative efforts shifted to state laws, status of the state privacy laws and impact on customer segmentation, Leading Banks-In-Insurance Report trends 10/00 Association of Banks-In-Insurance, and how products, distribution, and competition for the insurance industry will be redefined. Discussion from participants is included. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 26, No. 3.

Description: 1999 SOA Regional Meeting, Atlanta. The stated objective of this session was to provide a good feel of what financial service convergence means. It included a legislative update of what was happening in Washington in 1999 and discussions on customer segmentation, on bancassurance products, and distribution channels within a bank.