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August 04, 2011 at 08:00 PM
The Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC) may not want to have to keep tabs on a large number of systemically important financial institutions (SIFIs).
Larry Zimpleman, chairman of Principal Financial Group Inc., Des Moines, Iowa (NYSE:PFG), talked about the federal SIFI designation program recently during Principal’s second-quarter earnings call.
The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act created FSOC to help federal financial services regulators monitor events, trends and companies that could threaten the financial stability of the United States.
Officials inside and outside the United States also are talking about creating a class of SIFIs that would get extra attention from regulators because of their large size or the possibility that their failure could hurt other financial institutions.
An analyst participating in the earnings call asked why large, publicly traded U.S. life insurers now seem more confident than they used to be about their ability to escape full-blown SIFI status.
Zimpleman acknowledged that, at the beginning of the year, he thought Principal was more likely to “fall into that bucket.”
