东京——据《日经新闻》周五获悉，日本金融厅拟根据《保险业法》向保德信人寿保险发布业务停止命令。
TOKYO -- Japan's Financial Services Agency is set to issue a business suspension order against Prudential Life Insurance under the Insurance Business Act, Nikkei learned on Friday.
作为美国保险巨头保德信金融的日本子公司，保德信人寿可能被禁止销售新保险单及开展其他业务长达三个月。此前监管机构发现多起现任及前任员工不当获取客户资金的案件。
Prudential Life, the Japanese affiliate of U.S. insurance giant Prudential Financial, could be forbidden from selling new insurance policies and conducting other lines of business for three months. This follows the discovery of numerous cases in which current and former employees improperly obtained money from customers.
监管部门正寻求全面改革，以强化客户保护并防止类似事件再次发生。
The regulator is seeking sweeping reforms to strengthen customer protection and prevent any recurrence.
业务停止命令是除吊销保险公司经营牌照外最严厉的行政处分。这将是自2019年日本邮政人寿保险受罚以来，该行业最严重的此类处分。
A suspension order is the most severe administrative sanction short of revocation of an insurer's operating license. It would be the most serious such order in the industry since Japan Post Life Insurance was sanctioned in 2019.