United States: Capital Adequacy/BASEL

The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (“NAIC”) held its 2026 Spring meetings in San Diego. The NAIC received updates from various working groups, including the RBC Investment Risk and Evaluation Working Group, Life RBC Working Group and the American Academy of Actuaries (“Academy”) on the proposals relating to capital charges (factors) for CLOs, Collateral Loans and other assets in order to refine and advance the regulatory framework governing capital treatment of such

On February 25, 2026, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (Proposal) to implement a comprehensive federal payment stablecoin regulatory regime for OCC-supervised entities under the Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for U.S. Stablecoins Act (GENIUS Act).

The Internal Revenue Service issued Proposed Regulations that, if finalized, will eliminate a recently introduced rule for determining whether a REIT is a domestically-controlled REIT (a DC-REIT).