Description: Presented at May 2005 Spring Meeting. Panelists discuss the current status since the passage of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley bill, outlook for bank distribution of insurance products, and experiences with bank-insurer conglomerations.

Description: 1998 SOA Spring Meeting, Maui. The panelists discussed the primary issues underlying market conduct concerns, as well as possible approaches to evaluating litigation from an actuarial and economists' perspective.

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.

Description: Panelists, which include the chief counsel of the Office of the Comptroller of Currency [OCC], discuss the regulatory issues and market opportunities relating to insurance companies as providers and banks as the vendors of insurance products. From the 1997 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 23, No. 3.

Description: Presented at October 1996 Annual Meeting. Discusses the new regulatory requirements, including the invention of an illustration actuary and what the job entails, and the tasks to be accomplished in achieving compliance.