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April 10, 2011 at 08:00 PM
The International Association of Insurance Supervisors (IAIS) might have a draft of methodology and criteria for identifying insurers that are “Globally Systemically Important Financial Institutions” (G-SIFI) ready by August.
Peter Braum?ller, chairman of the IAIS, Basel, Switzerland, talks about the IAIS G-SIFI criteria development time table in a letter addressed to Janice Hilchie, a representative for a group of insurance company associations.
The IAIS is working on the G-SIFI criteria project because the Group of 20 developed 
countries set up a Financial Stability Board (FSB), Basel, Switzerland. The board is supposed to come up with strategies for increasing the stability of the world financial system.
One FSB idea is to take steps to discourage G-SIFIs from taking excessive risk.
The FSB originally was hoping to come up with criteria for assessing problems at all types of troubled G-SIFIs by June, but the IAIS has been taking longer than originally hoped to develop criteria for G-SIFIs in the insurance industry.
