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Insurance companies are given permission to diversify their investments into private equity and real estate sectors

  • Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
  • -
  • China
  • -
  • November 15 2010

The China Insurance Regulatory Commission (CIRC) recently issued Interim Measures on Investment of Insurance Funds in Private Equity (PE Measures) and the Interim Measures on Investment of Insurance Funds in Real Estate (RE Measures

Chinese drywall - Chinese President says that he will look into drywall responsibility

  • Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
  • -
  • China, USA
  • -
  • April 21 2010

United States Senator Bill Nelson (D-Fla.) reports that, this week, Chinese president Hu Jintao told him this week that he would investigate problems with Chinese manufactured drywall

New York Insurance Department announces cooperation agreement with China

  • Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
  • -
  • China, USA
  • -
  • July 30 2009

On Tuesday, July 28, 2009, Acting New York State Insurance Department ("NYSID") Superintendent Kermitt Brooks announced that the NYSID entered into a Memorandum of Understanding ("MoU") with the International Department of the China Insurance Regulatory Commission ("CIRC"), China’s insurance regulator

China Insurance Regulatory Commission issues guidelines to strengthen insurers' control of funds

  • Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
  • -
  • China
  • -
  • August 26 2010

On 17 August 2010 the China Insurance Regulatory Commission (the CIRC) issued basic guidelines for the internal controls at Chinese insurance companies, which include monitoring their allocation and management of insurance funds

Insurance institutions may invest in corporate debentures

  • Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
  • -
  • China
  • -
  • January 12 2010

The China Insurance Regulatory Commission (CIRC), the insurance industry regulator in the People's Republic of China, issued a circular on 31 December 2009, permitting insurance institutions to invest in corporate debentures which are issued in the domestic inter-bank market provided that the corporate debentures satisfy the relevant applicable requirements and have a credit rating of AAA or a long-term credit rating equivalent to AAA assigned by domestic credit rating institutions

Chinese drywall Consumer Product Safety Commission finds link between corrosion and Chinese manufactured drywall

  • Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
  • -
  • China, USA
  • -
  • November 24 2009

On Monday November 23, 2009, the Consumer Product Safety Commission ("CPSC") issued a press statement and study results demonstrating a "strong association" between homes with the Chinese manufactured drywall and levels of hydrogen sulfide and corrosion of metals in those homes

The People's Bank of China announce the renminbi will no longer be pegged to the US dollar

  • Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
  • -
  • China
  • -
  • June 24 2010

The People's Bank of China (the POBC) announced on 19 June 2010 that the renminbi (RMB) was to exit the peg to the US dollar

Insurance market performance in 2009

  • Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
  • -
  • China
  • -
  • March 12 2010

According to the Statistics on China Insurance Business for 2009 recently published by the China Insurance Regulatory Commission (CIRC), total insurance premiums in China received in 2009 amounted to RMB 1.11 trillion, up 13.8 from 2008

The China Insurance Regulatory Commission proposes to lift interest rate cap

  • Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
  • -
  • China
  • -
  • August 3 2010

On 11 July 2010 the China Regulatory Commission (the CIRC) stated that it proposed to remove restrictions on insurance companies in China in deciding the assumed (or guaranteed) interest rates for "conventional" (non-participating) life insurance policies in order to protect consumers' interests and encourage innovation in the sector

Draft Tentative Measures for the Administration of the Use of Insurance Funds

  • Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
  • -
  • China
  • -
  • January 13 2010

The China Insurance Regulatory Commission (CIRC) released on 25 December 2009 Draft Tentative Measures for the Administration of the Use of Insurance Funds (the "Draft Tentative Measures") for public consultation