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OCC Bulletin 2026-24 Shows What GENIUS Act Supervision Really Looks Like: A Weekly Reporting Regime With No Parallel in Traditional Banking

How OCC Bulletin 2026-24's PS-01 and PS-02 forms impose weekly and quarterly reporting on GENIUS Act stablecoin issuers, with comments due August 11, 2026.

By Lex, LexRegPulse Analyst · ·9 min read
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By Lex

The coverage of the GENIUS Act has been about the coalition that passed it. OCC Bulletin 2026-24, dated June 11, 2026, with the companion Federal Register notice published the next day at 91 FR 35795, redirects the story to the only question an institution weighing issuance actually needs answered: what does the supervisory apparatus look like on the ground? The answer sits in two proposed forms — PS-01 and PS-02 — and the cadence of the first one is the whole story. The proposed rule would require permitted payment stablecoin issuers and foreign payment stablecoin issuers to submit two reports to the OCC: a weekly confidential reporting form for each payment stablecoin it issues, and a quarterly reporting form. No deposit product in the national banking system is supervised on a weekly portfolio-reporting cycle. This one will be, and the comment window closes August 11, 2026.

That is the signal the GENIUS Act's political coverage has missed. The statute set the floor: monthly reserve composition reports, examined by a registered public accounting firm, with the CEO and CFO personally certifying their accuracy. The OCC's information collection sits on top of that floor and changes the texture of supervision entirely. Weekly is not "monthly, but more often." Weekly is a different supervisory theory.

What the two forms are

PS-02, the quarterly report, is the familiar object dressed down. By the OCC's own description it mirrors the quarterly statements of financial condition that national banks file through the Consolidated Reports of Condition and Income — the Call Report — but streamlined substantially for an issuer's comparatively simple business model. Five schedules: income statement, balance sheet, off-balance-sheet items, capital and operational backstop, and a memorandum. Nothing here would surprise a bank controller. The operational-backstop schedule maps to the proposed rule's requirement, common across the agencies' parallel proposals, that an issuer hold assets equal to 12 months of total expenses in high-quality liquid assets, held separately from reserve assets.

PS-01, the weekly report, is the one with no Call Report ancestor. It runs eight schedules and asks, every week, for a security-by-security accounting of the reserve pool. Schedule E collects each U.S. Treasury position by CUSIP, with fair value, remaining maturity, coupon, effective interest rate, the custodian holding it, and — for any Treasury encumbered by a repo — the counterparty and the collateral haircut. Schedule G does the same for money market fund shares held in reserve: fund name and sponsor, CUSIP, net asset value, effective interest rate, weighted average maturity and weighted average life. Schedule F captures reverse repo down to the agent and the collateral. Schedule A is the surveillance schedule — largest holders by wallet address, the exchanges trading the coin, trading volume, and top counterparties — which the OCC says is meant to let it monitor primary and secondary market dynamics, including during times of stress.

Read those fields together and the supervisory theory is unmistakable. This is not deposit oversight. It is portfolio surveillance.

The tell: this is money-market-fund supervision, not bank supervision

The closest analogue to PS-01 is not anything in the OCC's examination toolkit. It is the SEC's oversight of money market funds. Form N-MFP is used for monthly reports of money market funds about the fund and its portfolio holdings, filed by the fifth business day of the month. The security-level granularity the OCC wants — CUSIP, maturity, effective yield, WAM, WAL, custodian — is N-MFP's granularity, lifted almost field for field. The difference is frequency. The OCC is asking for it weekly. That makes PS-01 a more intensive cadence than the regime governing the very money market funds that will hold a large share of stablecoin reserves.

The money-fund framework rounds out the picture. After the March 2020 stress, the SEC raised the daily and weekly liquid asset minimums to 25% and 50%, respectively, and built an event-reporting tripwire: funds must file on Form N-CR within one business day when daily or weekly liquid assets decline more than 50% below the regulatory minimums. Granular periodic portfolio reporting plus a fast tripwire keyed to liquidity — that is precisely the architecture the OCC is importing. Schedule A is the tripwire logic; the weekly schedules are the N-MFP logic, accelerated.

Is the headline framing fair — no parallel in traditional banking? Mostly. The one place bank supervision already runs at this tempo is the Federal Reserve's complex-institution liquidity monitoring report (the FR 2052a), filed daily or monthly by the largest, most systemic banking organizations. Ordinary deposit products are not surveilled that way; they sit in the quarterly Call Report and get examined on cycle. So the accurate statement is sharper than the headline: the OCC would apply the liquidity-surveillance posture reserved for the largest banks — and the disclosure granularity reserved for SEC-regulated money funds — to every stablecoin issuer under its jurisdiction, regardless of size. A $200 million issuer and a $30 billion issuer file the same weekly form.

Who can actually clear the bar

This is where the forms do their real work — as a filter. The OCC's burden estimate is the number to watch, and not for the reason the Paperwork Reduction Act intends. The agency pegs ongoing weekly compliance at one hour per filing across an estimated 29 respondents. One hour. That estimate is only plausible if the institution already operates an automated pipeline that pulls CUSIP-level positions from custodians, repo and reverse-repo terms from counterparties, NAV and WAM/WAL from money-fund administrators, and wallet-level holder data from the chain — and reconciles all of it to par outstanding, weekly, on demand. The form is an hour. Building the plumbing that fills the form is the barrier, and the OCC's 16-hour initial-setup estimate badly understates it.

That plumbing is not evenly distributed. It exists, today, inside large banks with established treasury-reporting infrastructure and inside asset managers that already produce N-MFP for their money funds. It does not exist inside most institutions that might like the economics of issuance. The weekly form, in other words, pre-selects for issuers who are either money-center banks or are operationally fused to a money market fund complex. The OCC's draft even flags the boundary case directly, asking whether certain uninsured national trust banks that opt into the part 15 capital requirements should file the quarterly form at all — a question with a named institution behind it, since Fidelity Digital Assets, National Association was granted a national trust bank charter by the OCC in 2025.

Fidelity, and the market structure the forms assume

Which is why this week's other development is not a coincidence. Fidelity is launching the Fidelity Reserves Digital Fund, a money market fund aimed at managing reserves for stablecoin issuers under the GENIUS Act, following State Street into the reserve-management business. The fund will invest in Treasuries with maturities of 93 days or less, cash, overnight repos backed by Treasuries, and other government money market funds that comply with the law — the permitted-reserve universe, rebuilt as a fund. It is not the first. BlackRock, BNY's Dreyfus, Goldman Sachs and others have filed or launched stablecoin-reserve money market funds over the past year.

Step back and the convergence is the point. The firms racing to manage stablecoin reserves are money market fund complexes, and the asset they are selling is an N-MFP-reportable portfolio. PS-01 asks issuers to report reserves as if they were a money fund because, increasingly, the reserves are a money fund — Schedule G exists precisely to capture fund shares held in reserve. Fidelity shows the endgame: it issues a stablecoin through an OCC-chartered national trust bank and manages reserves through its asset-management arm. It already self-discloses circulating supply and reserve net asset value at the close of every business day, with monthly reserve reports examined by an outside accounting firm. An issuer built that way produces a weekly reserve attestation as a byproduct of systems it already runs. An issuer that is not is looking at a build it may not have priced.

Where the other agencies land

The OCC is not alone, and the alignment matters for anyone choosing a charter. The FDIC's April proposal, which the agency says it endeavored to align with the OCC's, carries the same architecture: beyond monthly reserve reporting, it would require a confidential weekly report and a quarterly report of financial condition, the latter filed within 30 days of quarter-end. The NCUA followed in May with a standards proposal it explicitly worked to align with the standards proposed for bank subsidiaries. The conspicuous gap: the Federal Reserve Board, a primary federal payment stablecoin regulator for issuer subsidiaries of state member banks and certain holding companies, has not yet issued its proposed rule, even as the OCC, FDIC, NCUA, and Treasury's FinCEN and OFAC have all moved. The weekly-plus-quarterly cadence is hardening into the federal baseline before the full set of regulators has weighed in.

There is a colorable objection, and it deserves a hearing. The GENIUS Act instructs the primary regulators to issue rules but "may not impose requirements in addition to the requirements specified under section 4." A commenter could argue a bespoke weekly confidential form exceeds the statute. The OCC's answer is the stronger one: reporting is an exercise of supervisory authority, and the proposed rule already contemplates confidential weekly reporting, quarterly reports of financial condition, and additional reporting as the OCC may request. The weekly form collects information for supervision; it is not a new substantive obligation on issuance. The objection is real, and it does not carry.

What to watch

The comment period runs to August 11, 2026, after which the OCC has said it will publish a second 30-day notice before sending the collection to OMB — two more chances to move specific fields. Three are worth contesting now. First, the OCC has asked whether both WAM and WAL are necessary or whether one suffices; treasury teams that find one materially cheaper to produce should say so. Second, the agency is asking whether OCC-regulated issuers should file both the Call Report and the PS forms or only the PS forms — a live duplication question for any issuer inside a bank that already files FFIEC reports. Third, the OCC flagged that it expects to collect this data in XML or a similar machine-readable format; that choice will drive build cost more than any single field. Underneath it all, the clock: the Act takes effect on the earlier of 18 months from enactment — January 18, 2027 — and 120 days after the primary federal regulators issue final implementing regulations.

Bottom line

The statute decided that stablecoins must be fully reserved. OCC Bulletin 2026-24 decides who can realistically issue them. A weekly, CUSIP-level reserve attestation produced on demand is not a compliance task bolted onto an issuance program — it is a precondition of the operating model, and it is one that favors money-center banks and asset-manager-affiliated trust banks over everyone else. The institutions that read PS-01 as a reporting form will be late. The ones that read it as a systems specification — and start building the reserve-data pipeline during the comment period rather than after the final rule — are the ones that will be issuing in 2027.

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