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Financial Sector (Collection of Data) (reporting standard) determination No. 8 of 2006 - Reporting Standard ARS 220.3 - Prescribed Provisioning
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This reporting standard is made under section 13 of the Financial Sector (Collection of Data) Act 2001. It applies to certain authorised deposit-taking institutions that apply the standardised provisioning methodology referred to in paragraph 11 of Prudential Standard APS 220 Credit Quality and described in Guidance Note AGN 220.3 Prescribed Provisioning to determine their level of specific provisions. This reporting standard requires those authorised deposit-taking institutions to report to APRA, generally on a quarterly basis, in relation to their prescribed provisioning.
This reporting standard outlines the overall requirements for the provision of relevant information to APRA. It should be read in conjunction with:
the versions of Form ARF 220.3 Prescribed Provisioning designated for a ‘Licensed ADI’ and ‘Consolidated Group’ and the associated instructions (all of which are attached and form part of this reporting standard); and
Prudential Standard APS 220 Credit Quality and Guidance Note AGN 220.3 Prescribed Provisioning.
Purpose
Data collected in Form ARF 220.3 Prescribed Provisioning (Form ARF 220.3) is used by APRA for the purpose of prudential supervision including assessing compliance with Prudential Standard APS 220 Credit Quality. It may also be used by the Reserve Bank of Australia and the Australian Bureau of Statistics.
Application
This reporting standard applies to all relevant authorised deposit-taking institutions (ADIs) (as defined by paragraph 17).
Information required
A relevant ADI must provide APRA with the information required by the version of Form ARF 220.3 designated for a ‘Licensed ADI’ for each reporting period.
A relevant ADI that is a highest parent entity in relation to a consolidated ADI group must also provide APRA with the information required by the version of Form ARF 220.3 designated for a ‘Consolidated Group’ for each reporting period.
Forms and method of submission
The information required by this reporting standard must be given to APRA either:
(a) in electronic form, using one of the electronic submission mechanisms provided by the ‘Direct to APRA’ (also known as ‘D2A’) application; or
(b) manually completed on paper, which must be faxed or mailed to APRA’s head office.
Note: the Direct to APRA application software and paper forms may be obtained from APRA.
Reporting periods and due dates
Subject to paragraph 7, a relevant ADI must provide the information required by this reporting standard for each quarter based on the financial year (within the meaning of the Corporations Act 2001) of the ADI.
APRA may, by notice in writing, change 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; and
(c) the requirements of the Reserve Bank of Australia or the Australian Bureau of Statistics.
The information required by this reporting standard must be provided to APRA by the following times:
(a) in the case of information required by paragraphs 3 and 4 from a relevant ADI that is a locally-incorporated credit union, locally-incorporated building society, specialist credit card institution (whether locally-incorporated or not) or Cairns Penny Savings & Loans Limited – 15 business days after the end of the reporting period to which the information relates; and
(b) in the case of the information required by paragraphs 3 and 4 from a relevant ADI that falls outside subparagraph 8(a) – 20 business days after the end of the reporting period to which the information relates.
APRA may grant an ADI an extension of a due date in writing, in which case the new due date for the provision of the information will be the date on the notice of extension.
Quality control
The information provided by an ADI under this reporting standard (except for the information required under paragraph 4) must be the product of processes and controls that have been reviewed and tested by the external auditor of the ADI. AGS 1008 ‘Audit Implications of Prudential Reporting Requirements for Authorised Deposit-taking Institutions’, issued by the Auditing and Assurance Standards Board provides guidance 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 necessary to enable the external auditor to form an opinion on the accuracy and reliability of the data.
All information provided by an ADI under this reporting standard must be subject to processes and controls developed by the ADI for the internal review and authorisation of that information. It is the responsibility of the board and senior management of the ADI to ensure that an appropriate set of policies and procedures for the authorisation of data submitted to APRA is in place.
Authorisation
If an ADI submits information under this reporting standard using the ‘Direct to APRA’ software, it will be necessary for an officer of the ADI to digitally sign, authorise and encrypt the relevant data. For this purpose, APRA’s certificate authority will issue ‘digital certificates’, for use with the software, to officers of the ADI who have authority from the ADI to transmit the data to APRA.
If information under this reporting standard is provided in paper form, it must be signed on the front page of the relevant completed form by either:
(a) the Principal Executive Officer of the ADI; or
(b) the Chief Financial Officer of the ADI (whatever his or her official title may be).
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.
Transitional
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 in the determination making this reporting standard (being the reporting standard which this reporting standard replaces).
transitional reporting period means a reporting period under the old reporting standard:
(a) which 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.
Interpretation - classifications of ADIs
In this reporting standard:
Accounting Standard AASB 127 means the accounting standard so made by the Australian Accounting Standards Board.
ADI means an authorised deposit-taking institution within the meaning of the Banking Act 1959.
(b) each subsidiary (within the meaning of Accounting Standard AASB 127) of that ADI, whether the subsidiary is locally-incorporated or not, other than a subsidiary that is excluded by the instructions attached to this standard.
building society means an ADI whose name appears under the heading ‘Building Societies’ in the ADI list.
credit union means an ADI whose name appears under the heading ‘Credit Unions’ in the ADI list.
highest parent entity means an ADI that satisfies all of the following conditions:
(a) it is locally-incorporated;
(b) it has at least one subsidiary (within the meaning of Accounting Standard AASB 127); and
(c) it is not itself a subsidiary (within the meaning of Accounting Standard AASB 127) of an ADI that is locally-incorporated.
locally-incorporated means incorporated in Australia.
relevant ADI means an ADI that applies the standardised provisioning methodology referred to in paragraph 11 of Prudential Standard APS 220 Credit Quality and described in Guidance Note AGN 220.3 Prescribed Provisioning to determine its level of specific provisions.
special service provider means an ADI whose name appears under the heading ‘Other ADIs’ in the ADI list (other than Cairns Penny Savings & Loans Limited).
specialist credit card institution means an ADI who name appears under the heading ‘Specialist Credit Card Institutions (SCCIs)’ in the ADI list.
If an ADI is not in the ADI list, then:
(a) if the ADI assumes or uses the expression ‘building society’ in relation to its financial business, and is locally-incorporated, it is taken to be a locally-incorporated building society for the purposes of this reporting standard; or
(b) if the ADI assumes or uses the expression ‘credit union’, ‘credit society’ or ‘credit co-operative’ in relation to its financial business, and is locally-incorporated, it is taken to be a locally-incorporated credit union for the purposes of this reporting standard; and
(c) if the ADI engages in credit card issuing or credit card acquiring, or both, and does not otherwise carry on banking business within the meaning of section 5 of the Banking Act 1959, and is locally-incorporated, it is taken to be a locally-incorporated specialist credit card institution for the purposes of this reporting standard.
APRA may in writing determine that an ADI is taken to be a locally-incorporated building society, locally-incorporated credit union, special service provider or locally-incorporated specialist credit card institution for the purposes of this reporting standard (even if, under paragraph 17 or 18, it comes within a different classification).
Interpretation - other definitions
In this reporting standard:
business days means ordinary business days, exclusive of Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays.
Principal Executive Officer means the principal executive officer of the ADI for the time being, by whatever name called, and whether or not he or she is a member of the governing board of the entity.
reporting period means a reporting period under paragraph 6 or, if applicable, paragraph 7.
The ADI list
Australian-owned Banks
Adelaide Bank Limited
AMP Bank Limited
Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited
Bank of Queensland Limited
Bendigo Bank Limited
Commonwealth Bank of Australia
Commonwealth Development Bank of Australia Limited (a subsidiary of Commonwealth Bank of Australia)
Elders Rural Bank Limited
Macquarie Bank Limited
Members Equity Bank Pty Limited
National Australia Bank Limited
St George Bank Limited
Suncorp-Metway Limited
Westpac Banking Corporation
Foreign Subsidiary Banks
Arab Bank Australia Limited
Bank of China (Australia) Limited
Bank of Cyprus Australia Pty Limited
BankWest (the trading name of Bank of Western Australia Limited, a foreign subsidiary bank following its sale to Bank of Scotland in December 1995)
Citigroup Pty Limited
HSBC Bank Australia Limited
ING Bank (Australia) Limited
Investec Bank (Australia) Limited
Laiki Bank (Australia) Limited
NM Rothschild & Sons (Australia) Limited
Rabobank Australia Limited (a subsidiary of Rabobank Nederland from October 1994)
Branches of Foreign Banks
ABN AMRO Bank N.V.
Bank of America, National Association
Bank of China (subject to depositor protection provisions of the Banking Act 1959)
Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, Ltd
Barclays Capital (the trading name of Barclays Bank plc)
BNP Paribas
Citibank N.A.
Credit Suisse
Deutsche Bank AG
HBOS Treasury Services plc
HSBC Bank plc
ING Bank NV
JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association
Mizuho Corporate Bank, Ltd
Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation Limited
Rabobank Nederland (the trading name of Co-operative Central Raiffeisen-Boerenleenbank B.A.)
Royal Bank of Canada
Société Générale
Standard Chartered Bank
State Bank of India
State Street Bank and Trust Company
The International Commercial Bank of China
The Royal Bank of Scotland Plc
The Toronto-Dominion Bank
Taiwan Business Bank
UBS AG
United Overseas Bank Limited
WestLB AG
Building Societies
ABS Building Society Ltd
B & E Ltd
Greater Building Society Ltd
Heritage Building Society Limited
Home Building Society Ltd
Hume Building Society Ltd
IMB Ltd
Lifeplan Australia Building Society Limited
Mackay Permanent Building Society Ltd
Maitland Mutual Building Society Limited
Newcastle Permanent Building Society Ltd
Pioneer Permanent Building Society Limited
The Rock Building Society Limited
Wide Bay Australia Ltd
Credit Unions
Alliance One Credit Union Ltd
AMP Employees' & Agents Credit Union Limited
Austral Credit Union Limited
Australian Central Credit Union Limited
Australian Country Credit Union Ltd (trading as Reliance Credit Union)
Australian Defence Credit Union Ltd
AWA Credit Union Limited
Bananacoast Community Credit Union Ltd
Bankstown City Credit Union Ltd
Berrima District Credit Union Ltd
Big Sky Credit Union Ltd
Blue Mountains and Riverlands Community Credit Union Ltd