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In its November 2024 update, APRA confirmed it will maintain its existing macroprudential policy settings, including the serviceability assessment buffer, the countercyclical capital buffer and the absence of lending limits, following its assessment of financial stability risks.

Climate change presents risks to the financial system and the APRA-regulated entities that operate within it. This includes physical, transition, and liability risks which are collectively referred to as climate risks in this Information Paper.

This Response Paper summarises the key substantive feedback from industry and other stakeholders, and sets out APRA’s response. 

This paper outlines the methodology that APRA has used to produce the Comprehensive Product Performance Package (‘the CPPP’). The CPPP provides comparable information on the investment returns and fees and costs of the MySuper industry and a segment of the Choice industry within the superannuation sector.

The release of the Comprehensive Product Performance Package (CPPP) is the next step in APRA’s work to sharpen trustees’ focus on improving member outcomes by bringing together performance metrics of the performance test and the former heatmaps.

This Discussion Paper outlines potential amendments to APRA’s prudential framework to ensure that the capital strength of the Australian banking system operates more effectively in stress, proposing to replace Additional Tier 1 (AT1) capital with more reliable and effective forms of capital.

This information paper aims to help accountable entities and their accountable persons understand and meet their obligations under the Financial Accountability Regime, while outlining how the Regulators will jointly administer the FAR and exercise their regulatory and enforcement powers.

This Response Paper summarises the key substantive feedback from industry and other stakeholders and sets out APRA’s response. In conjunction with this Response Paper, APRA is releasing updated final versions of the standard and guidance, SPS 515 and SPG 515, which now incorporates the draft guidance from SPG 516.

This industry update summarises the responses to a voluntary survey issued by the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) and the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) in November 2023.