Financial Services Modernization: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit of the Committee on Banking and Financial Services, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fifth Congress, First Session, February 11, 13, 25, 1997 |
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... industry have been forced to find loopholes and novel interpreta- tions to allow financial institutions to adapt to an ever - changing marketplace . An all - too - real recent example is the Office of the Controller of the Currency when ...
... industry have been forced to find loopholes and novel interpreta- tions to allow financial institutions to adapt to an ever - changing marketplace . An all - too - real recent example is the Office of the Controller of the Currency when ...
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... industry will be subject to court battles and changing Administrations . The Alliance bill we looked at today at the very least makes an honest effort to confront these issues without penalizing firms that currently use existing models ...
... industry will be subject to court battles and changing Administrations . The Alliance bill we looked at today at the very least makes an honest effort to confront these issues without penalizing firms that currently use existing models ...
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... industry . What is clear , however , is that , as we move toward modernization , Congress must be sure to balance the goal of increasing the efficiency and competi- tiveness of our financial services industry with the equally impor ...
... industry . What is clear , however , is that , as we move toward modernization , Congress must be sure to balance the goal of increasing the efficiency and competi- tiveness of our financial services industry with the equally impor ...
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... industry where consumers and markets determine what financial services are available and how they are delivered while promoting the sub- stitution of private risk capital for government regulation . Financial modernization is necessary ...
... industry where consumers and markets determine what financial services are available and how they are delivered while promoting the sub- stitution of private risk capital for government regulation . Financial modernization is necessary ...
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... industry today . The best means of controlling risk to the insured affiliate is through proper insulation between holding company affiliates and by ensuring suf- ficient capital levels in the bank such that they can remain solvent ...
... industry today . The best means of controlling risk to the insured affiliate is through proper insulation between holding company affiliates and by ensuring suf- ficient capital levels in the bank such that they can remain solvent ...
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Page 419 - ... what constitutes doing business in this State, and also exercises powers and privileges available to the state by virtue of Public Law 15, 79th Congress of the United States, Chapter 20, 1st Session, S. 340, which declares that the business of insurance and every person engaged therein shall be subject to the laws of the several states.
Page 393 - ... shall be deemed equivalent to an appointment by such nonresident of the registrar or his successor in office, to be his true and lawful attorney upon whom may be served all lawful processes...
Page 417 - New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee.
Page 193 - ABA brings together all elements of the banking community to best represent the interests of this rapidly changing industry. Its membership— which includes community, regional, and money center banks and holding companies, as well as savings institutions, trust companies, and savings banks — makes ABA the largest banking trade association in the country.
Page 415 - The Supreme Court's central holding was that Section 92 preempts State laws that prohibit national banks from selling insurance, pursuant to their Section 92 authority. In the course of rendering this decision, however, the Supreme Court also acknowledged that "[t]o say this" -- to say that Section 92 preempts State laws that would otherwise prohibit small-town national banks from selling insurance -- "is not to deprive States of their power to regulate national banks, where (unlike here) doing so...
Page 409 - Commissioner may, after giving notice and an opportunity to be heard, determine to suspend, revoke or refuse to renew such insurer's license or authority to do business in this State for such period as he finds is required for the protection of policyholders or the public. Any such determination shall be accompanied by specific findings of fact and conclusions of law.
Page 389 - ... (d) (1) It shall be unlawful for any person, directly or indirectly, by use of the mails or by any means or instrumentality of interstate commerce or of any facility of a national securities exchange or otherwise, to make a tender offer for, or a request or invitation for tenders...
Page 406 - No security which is the subject of any agreement or arrangement regarding acquisition, or which is acquired or to be acquired, in contravention of the provisions of this chapter or of any rule, regulation or order issued by the commissioner hereunder may be voted at any shareholders...
Page 399 - Each registered insurer shall keep current the information required to be disclosed in its registration statement by reporting all material changes or additions on amendment forms provided by the Commissioner within...
Page 393 - ... (C) any acquisition of an equity security by the issuer of such security; (D) any acquisition or proposed acquisition of a security which the Commission, by rules or regulations or by order, shall exempt from the provisions of this subsection as not entered into for the purpose of, and not having the effect of, changing or influencing the control of the issuer or otherwise as not comprehended within the purposes of this subsection.