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March 30, 2009 at 08:00 PM
Washington
U.K. Prime Minister Gordon Brown wants the “G20″ leaders to put global financial services regulatory modernization efforts that include insurance on their meeting agenda.
The American Council of Life Insurers, Washington, today said it supports Brown’s desire to make regulatory modernization a critical part of the agenda for the Group of 20 meeting, which starts Wednesday.
The Group of 20 is an organization that represents the interests of 20 of the world’s most highly industrialized countries.
The ACLI wants to encourage Brown to press the regulatory modernization issue strongly, “with a goal of including insurance as part of an international financial reform plan,” ACLI President Frank Keating says in a statement.
The ACLI recently joined with Canadian, European, and Mexican insurance associations to send Brown a letter highlighting insurance-specific issues that must be taken into consideration when the G20 meets this week, Keating says.
Some of the points in the letter include:
