ABA submission on APRA Interest Rate Risk in the Banking Book workshop
2 June 2023
The Australian Banking Association (ABA) welcomes Australia Prudential Regulation Authority’s (APRA) ongoing and constructive engagement, and the opportunity to respond to the policy options on the revised draft Prudential Standard APS 117 Capital Adequacy: Interest Rate Risk in the Banking Book (APS 117), which were presented to industry on 18 May 2023.
Download PDFPublic Disclosure Requirements for ADIs (APS 330)
7 October 2022
The ABA acknowledges APRA’s objective to align disclosures with international standards and is supportive of the objectives to promote transparency, improve comparability for prudential metrics across ADIs, and enhance proportionality by removing disclosure requirements for smaller ADIs. The ABA provides the feedback contained in this letter for APRA’s consideration. However, industry expects to raise additional observations and points for clarification as part of the transition to BCBS-based standards.
Download PDFAPRA Finalising Bank Capital Requirements
26 August 2022
The Australian Banking Association welcomes the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority’s ongoing engagement with industry regarding the development of the revised capital framework including the consequential amendments to Liquidity, Securitisation and Counterparty Credit Risk and the release of the final Prudential Practice Guides for bank capital – APG 110, APG 112 and APG 113 – and... Read more »
Download PDFDirections for Data Collections
24 June 2022
The Australian Banking Association has responded to the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority’s (APRA) Directions for Data Collections and its associated five-year road map. The outline of APRA’s vision and the reasoning underpinning its strategy has allowed banks to start planning for and resourcing what is to be a major regulatory change, requiring significant investment. ABA members are now looking for the next level of detail on the future data collection, so they can start their own projects to ensure delivering to APRA’s timetables in the most efficient manner possible.
Download PDFRevisions to the ADI Capital Framework
6 June 2022
The Australian Banking Association has provided feedback on the interim reporting standards and parallel run expectations for the ADI capital framework. This submission provides feedback on reporting timelines and dates, level of consolidation and scope of submissions as well as definitional questions relating to specific reporting standards
Download PDFPragmatic implementation of APG 110, APG 112 and APG 113
31 May 2022
To assist consistency of implementation across the industry, the Australian Banking Association has developed industry position on a range of aspects regarding the implementation of APRA’s revised capital framework.
Download PDFAPS 117 Compliance Costs
24 May 2022
The ABA welcomes APRA’s ongoing engagement regarding the implementation of the revised APS 117 and provides the attached estimate of the associated compliance costs.
Download PDFABA Letter on PPG (110, 112, 113)
30 April 2022
To assist APRA finalise the prudential practice guides (APG 110, APG 112 and APG 113), industry provides the attached feedback in response to: 1) the materials presented to the industry in the APRA-ABA workshop on 8 April; and 2) the subsequent queries to industry on 19 April.
Download PDFBasel III liquidity ratios: post-implementation review
14 April 2022
The Australian Banking Association welcomes the opportunity to respond to the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority’s discussion paper, Post-implementation Review of the Basel III Liquidity Ratios in Australia, which focuses on the Liquidity Coverage Ratio (LCR) and the Net Stable Funding Ratio (NSFR). The LCR and NSFR were and remain important elements of the Basel III Liquidity reforms. Overall, these liquidity measures have achieved their objectives of promoting short-term and long-term resilience of banks’ liquidity and funding profiles and are supported by the banking industry.
Download PDFAPRA: Capital Framework Revisions Draft Guidance
14 March 2022
The ABA continues to support a revised capital framework that strengthens the financial resilience of the industry, embeds the industry’s unquestionably strong level of capital and provides for greater flexibility in periods of stress. ABA member banks are actively working towards the implementation of APRA’s revised capital framework. Considerable work still remains in both defining and implementing the framework based on the practice guides issued as well as implementing related changes to regulatory reporting, modifications to Pillar 3 and international comparability studies, and updates to related standards.
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