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This scholarship program, jointly funded by APRA and the RBA, supports up to four scholarships each year to the value of $15,000 each. The purpose of the scholarship is to support research students pursuing careers in finance, economics, actuarial science, econometrics, statistics, or related disciplines.

APRA has removed additional licence conditions imposed on N.M. Superannuation Proprietary Limited in response to governance and risk management concerns.

The National Claims and Policies Database reports comprise an overview of professional indemnity (PI) and public and product liability (PL) insurance, as well as policy and claims reports containing aggregate (level 1) data for APRA-regulated general insurers and Lloyd’s Australia.

The Monthly Authorised Deposit-taking Institution Statistics (MADIS) publication provides selected information on the banking business of individual banks within the domestic market.

APRA will be keeping its macroprudential policy settings on hold following its latest quarterly assessment of domestic and international economic conditions.

The Private Health Insurance Annual Coverage Survey report provides a snapshot at December each year of the number of people, by age, gender and state of residence, with hospital insurance.

APRA has finalised targeted reforms to liquidity and capital requirements for authorised deposit-taking institutions to strengthen their ability to respond to a future stress event.

APRA has delivered its multi-year project to modernise the prudential architecture (MPA), with the publication of the final version of its new digital Prudential Handbook.

APRA has issued infringement notices for alleged breaches of the SIS Act and has agreed to accept a court enforceable undertaking from OnePath Custodians Pty Limited.

APRA has, with immediate effect, reduced the $1 billion operational risk capital add-on applied to Westpac by $500 million, reflecting the bank's progress in improving risk governance, culture and risk management.