Recent Accounting Pronouncements

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Sep. 30, 2023

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Recent Accounting Pronouncements

Note 3: Recent Accounting Pronouncements

Recently Adopted Accounting Standards

In January of 2021, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) issued Accounting Standards Update (“ASU”) 2021-01, “Reference Rate Reform – Scope,” which clarified the scope and application of the original guidance, ASU 2020-04,“Reference Rate Reform (Topic 848): Facilitation of the Effects of Reference Rate Reform on Financial Reporting,” issued in March of 2020. In December of 2022, the FASB issued ASU 2022-06,“Reference Rate Reform – Deferral of the Sunset Date of Topic 848,” which extends the sunset date to December 31, 2024. ASU 2020-04 provides optional expedients and exceptions for applying GAAP to contract modifications and hedging relationships that reference London Interbank Offered Rate (“LIBOR”) or other rates that are expected to be discontinued, subject to meeting certain criteria. These ASUs were effective upon issuance, and the Company may elect to apply the amendments prospectively through December 31, 2024. The Company adopted these ASUs in the second quarter of 2023 and the adoption of these ASUs did not materially affect the Company’s consolidated financial statements.

The Company has identified LIBOR transition primarily effecting its insurance portfolio exposures that reference or are indexed to LIBOR, interest rate swaps referencing LIBOR, investments indexed to an interbank offered rate, including LIBOR, and MBIA Corp.’s surplus notes. The Company will be applying the accounting relief as relevant contract modifications are made through December 31, 2024. Contract modifications are expected to only include those that address a LIBOR transition.

The Company has not adopted any other new accounting pronouncements that had a material impact on its consolidated financial statements.