US Insurance industry body NAIC signed off on new risk-based capital changes after years of industry wrangling.
The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) closed out the four-year regulatory project to give final approval to new risk-based capital (RBC) charges for life insurers' collateralised loan obligation (CLO) holdings.
According to the NAIC, the main issue is that “regulators are charged with ensuring that insurance companies can fulfil their financial obligations to policyholders,” it said. “One way they do this is by imposing an RBC requirement.”
The RBC requirement was a statutory minimum level of capital that is based on an insurance company’s size and the inherent riskiness of its financial assets and operations.
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