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Regulation

IRDA clears LIC’s IDBI Bank acquistion plans, defers approvals for new `Reinsurance Regulations’

“Yes , we have cleared a proposal from the LIC to pick up upto 51 per cent in the IDBI Bank  and asked them to inform us afterwards when they plan to bring it down to 15 per cent, which is the maximum permissible limit a  life insurer can have in its investment in another company. But we have postponed our approval for the new reinsurance regulations.,’’ said top sources at IRDAI.

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EU’s Barnier plays down bespoke Brexit deal for British financial sector

“Why would the equivalence system, which works well for the U.S. industry, not work for the City?,” Michel Barnier told a financial conference in Sofia, the Bulgarian capital.The so-called equivalence system works on the basis of Brussels granting access to the EU for banks, insurers and asset managers from outside the bloc if the bloc deems their home rules to be similar enough.

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