Description: Feature article discussing the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010 and its implications.

Description: This session from the 1983 SOA Spring Meeting discusses self-insurance and captive insurance companies including the motives for forming captive insurance companies, the captive concept as it applies to credit insurance, bank holding company captive insurers, the financial and non-financial reasons and operational considerations.

Description: This is an article that discusses the retreat of savings banks from mutuality. As we ponder the future of mutual life insurance, we should be aware of the change sweeping through the mutual savings bank industry.

Description: This session from the 1995 SOA New Orleans Meeting reviews bank annuity product development from three perspectives: strategic alliances between insurance organizations and banks, a consultant matching banks with insurance carriers, and a reinsurer working with banks on the 'retirement CD' product. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 1.

Description: This paper on bancassurance in India discusses some of the salient developments of banks in India, how the lack of coordination between bank regulation and insurance regulation created confusion in the development of bancassurance, the main problems facing banks in India, and some of the long term drivers of bancassurance in India. From Actuarial Research Clearing House, 2006.

Description: Feature article discussing the too big to fail principle and whether or not strong competition is ideal in terms of the banking industry.

Description: This session from the 1995 SOA Spring Meeting reviews investment products for the senior market, such as deferred and immediate annuities, mutual funds, and reverse mortgages. Discussion will include product design, pricing administration, regulation, and marketing. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 21, No. 1.

Description: This paper investigates the implications of using the Basel II motivated Advanced Measurement Approaches as a method to assess operational risk capital charges for banks and insurance companies with regard to U.S. regulations. The AMA developed in the paper uses actuarial loss models complemented by the extreme value theory to determine the empirical probability distribution function of the aggregated capital charges in the context of various classes of copulas. From Actuarial Research Clearing House, 2006.

Description: This session from the 1995 SOA New York City Meeting covers the overall trends in the financial market place, the relationship between banks and insurance companies, joint ventures between them and the issues faced by these two distribution systems. From the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 2.

Description: This session from the 1995 SOA New Orleans Meeting reviews trends in savings products including the Index Annuity, the CD annuity, variable life, variable annuities, modified endowment contracts - MEC and shifts in the banking industry. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 1.