Regulatory forecast.* As insurance regulators tackle emerging electronic commerce issues, they are focusing on the use of hypertext hypertext, technique for organizing computer databases or documents to facilitate the nonsequential retrieval of information. Related pieces of information are connected by preestablished or user-created links that allow a user to follow associative trails across the links, the placement of text and now many clicks it takes to get to me mandatory disclosure notices at insurers' interactive Web sites. * Regulations should encourage insurance companies to underwrite To insure; to sell an issue of stocks and bonds or to guarantee the purchase of unsold stocks and bonds after a public issue. The word underwrite has two meanings. in the most precise way possible. * New data standards could accelerate regulatory reform Regulatory Reform concerns improvements to the quality of government regulation. At the international level, the "OECD Regulatory Reform Programme is aimed at helping governments improve regulatory quality -- that is, reforming regulations that raise unnecessary obstacles to . |
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