Financial Sector (Collection of Data) (reporting standard) determination No. 15 of 2017
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This Reporting Standard sets out the requirements for the provision of information to APRA relating to an authorised deposit-taking institution’s capital adequacy. It includes Reporting Form ARF 110.0 Capital Adequacy and associated instructions and should be read in conjunction with Prudential Standard APS 110 Capital Adequacy and Prudential Standard APS 111 Capital Adequacy: Measurement of Capital.
Authority
This Reporting Standard is made under section 13 of the Financial Sector (Collection of Data) Act 2001.
Purpose
Information collected in Reporting Form ARF 110.0 Capital Adequacy (ARF 110.0) is used by APRA for the purpose of prudential supervision, including assessing compliance with Prudential Standard APS 110 Capital Adequacy (APS 110) and Prudential Standard APS 111 Capital Adequacy: Measurement of Capital (APS 111). It may also be used by the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) and the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS).
Application and commencement
This Reporting Standard applies to all authorised deposit-taking institutions (ADIs) other than foreign ADIs and providers of purchased payment facilities. This Reporting Standard may also apply to the non-operating holding company (NOHC) of an ADI (refer to paragraph 6).
This Reporting Standard applies for reporting periods commencing on or after 1 January 2018.
Information required
An ADI to which this Reporting Standard applies must provide APRA with the information required by the version of ARF 110.0 designated for an ADI at Level 1 for each reporting period.
If an ADI to which this Reporting Standard applies is part of a Level 2 group, the ADI must also provide APRA with the information required by the version of ARF 110.0 designated for an ADI at Level 2 for each reporting period, unless the ADI is a subsidiary of an authorised NOHC. If the ADI is a subsidiary of an authorised NOHC, the ADI’s immediate parent NOHC must provide APRA with the information required by that form for each reporting period. In doing so, the immediate parent NOHC must comply with this Reporting Standard (other than paragraphs 5 and 12) as if it were the relevant ADI.
Forms and method of submission
The information required by this Reporting Standard must be given to APRA in electronic format, using the ‘Direct to APRA’ application or by a method notified by APRA, in writing, prior to submission.
Note: the Direct to APRA application software (also known as D2A) may be obtained from APRA.
Reporting periods and due dates
Subject to paragraphs 9 and 10, an ADI to which this Reporting Standard applies must provide the information required by this Reporting Standard in respect of each quarter based on the ADI’s financial year (within the meaning of the Corporations Act 2001). The due date for doing so is set out in paragraph 10.
APRA may, by notice in writing, vary the reporting periods, or specified reporting periods, for a particular ADI, to require it to provide the information required by this Reporting Standard more frequently, or less frequently, having regard to:
(a) the particular circumstances of the ADI;
(b) the extent to which the information is required for the purposes of the prudential supervision of the ADI; or
(c) the requirements of the RBA or the ABS.
10. The information required by this Reporting Standard must be provided to APRA in accordance with the table below. The right hand column of the table sets out the number of business days after the end of the reporting period to which the information relates, within which information must be submitted to APRA by an ADI in each of the classes set out in the same row in the left hand column.
Class of ADI
Number of business days
Bank – Advanced or Applicant Advanced
30
Bank – Standardised
20
Foreign ADI
Not applicable
Building Society
15
Credit Union
15
Provider of Purchased Payment Facilities
Not applicable
Other ADI[1]
20
APRA may, by notice in writing, extend the due date by which an ADI must provide the information required by this Reporting Standard, in which case the new due date will be the date specified in the notice of extension.
Quality control
All information provided by an ADI under this Reporting Standard (except for the information required under paragraph 5) must be the product of systems, processes and controls that have been reviewed and tested by the external auditor of the ADI as set out in Prudential Standard APS 310 Audit and Related Matters. Relevant standards and guidance statements issued by the Auditing and Assurance Standards Board provide information on the scope and nature of the review and testing required from external auditors. This review and testing must be done on an annual basis or more frequently if required by the external auditor to enable the external auditor to form an opinion on the accuracy and reliability of the information provided by an ADI under this Reporting Standard.
All information provided by an ADI under this Reporting Standard must be subject to systems, processes and controls developed by the ADI for the internal review and authorisation of that information. These systems, processes and controls are to assure the completeness and reliability of the information provided.
Authorisation
When an officer of an ADI submits information under this Reporting Standard using the D2A application, or other method notified by APRA, it will be necessary for the officer to digitally sign the relevant information using a digital certificate acceptable to APRA.
Minor alterations to forms and instructions
APRA may make minor variations to:
(a) a form that is part of this Reporting Standard, and the instructions to such a form, to correct technical, programming or logical errors, inconsistencies or anomalies; or
(b) the instructions to a form, to clarify their application to the form,
without changing any substantive requirement in the form or instructions.
If APRA makes such a variation it must notify, in writing, each ADI that is required to report under this Reporting Standard.
Transition
An ADI must report under the old reporting standard in respect of a transitional reporting period. For these purposes:
old reporting standard means the reporting standard revoked by the determination that makes this Reporting Standard (being the reporting standard that this Reporting Standard replaces); and
transitional reporting period means a reporting period under the old reporting standard:
(a) that ended before the date of revocation of the old reporting standard; and
(b) in relation to which the ADI was required, under the old reporting standard, to report by a date on or after the date of revocation of the old reporting standard.
Note: For the avoidance of doubt, if an ADI was required to report under an old reporting standard, and the reporting documents were due before the date of revocation of the old reporting standard, the ADI is still required to provide any overdue reporting documents in accordance with the old reporting standard.
Interpretation
In this Reporting Standard:
AASB has the meaning in section 9 of the Corporations Act 2001.
ADI means an authorised deposit-taking institution within the meaning of the Banking Act 1959.
APRA means the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority established under the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority Act 1998.
Australian-owned bank means a locally incorporated ADI that is authorised under section 66 of the Banking Act 1959 to use the work ‘bank’ in its name.
authorised NOHC has the meaning given in the Banking Act 1959.
bank – advanced or applicant advanced means an Australian-owned bank or a foreign subsidiary bank that has APRA’s approval or is seeking APRA’s approval to use an internal ratings-based approach to credit risk and/or an advanced measurement approach to operational risk for capital adequacy purposes.
bank – standardised means an Australian-owned bank or a foreign subsidiary bank that uses the standardised approaches to credit risk and operational risk for capital adequacy purposes in respect of the whole of its operations.
foreign ADI has the meaning in section 5 of the Banking Act 1959.
building society means a locally incorporated ADI that is authorised under section 66 of the Banking Act 1959 to use the expression ‘building society’ in its name or in relation to its banking business.
business days means ordinary business days, exclusive of Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays.
class of ADI means each of the following:
(i) bank – advanced or applicant advanced;
(ii) bank – standardised;
(iii) foreign ADI;
(iv) building society;
(v) credit union;
(vi) other ADI; and
(vii) provider of purchased payment facilities.
credit union means a locally incorporated ADI that is authorised under section 66 of the Banking Act 1959 to use the expression ‘credit union’ in its name or in relation to its banking business and, for the purposes of this Reporting Standard, includes Cairns Penny Savings and Loans Limited.
due date means the relevant date under paragraph 9 or, if applicable, paragraph 10.
foreign subsidiary bank means a locally incorporated ADI in which a bank that is not locally incorporated has a stake of more than 15 per cent.
immediate parent NOHC means an authorised NOHC, or a subsidiary of an authorised NOHC, that is an immediate parent NOHC within the meaning of Prudential Standard APS 001 Definitions (APS 001).
Level 1 has the meaning in APS 001.
Level 2 has the meaning in APS 001.
locally incorporated means incorporated in Australia or in a State or Territory of Australia, by or under a Commonwealth, State or Territory law.
other ADI means an ADI that is not an Australian-owned bank, a branch of a foreign bank, a building society, a credit union, a foreign subsidiary bank or a provider of purchased payment facilities, but for the purposes of this Reporting Standard does not include Cairns Penny Savings and Loans Limited.
provider of purchased payment facilities means an ADI that is subject to a condition on its authority under section 9 of the Banking Act 1959 confining the banking business that the ADI is authorised to carry on to providing purchased payment facilities.
reporting period means a period mentioned in paragraph 8 or, if applicable, paragraph 9.
stake means a stake determined under the Financial Sector Shareholdings Act 1998, as if the only associates that were taken into account under paragraph (b) of subclause 10(1) of the Schedule to that Act were those set out in paragraphs (h), (j) and (l) of subclause 4(1).
subsidiary has the meaning in the Corporations Act 2001.
APRA may determine, in writing, that an individual ADI of one class of ADI is to be treated, for the purposes of this Reporting Standard, as though it were an ADI of another class of ADI.
Unless the contrary intention appears, any reference to an Act, Prudential Standard, Reporting Standard, Australian Accounting or Auditing Standard is a reference to the instrument as in force or existing from time to time.