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Prudential issues in securitisation

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… maintained good lending discipline, abetted by the lenders mortgage insurance companies supporting the market. In … Thank you for your attention. The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) is the prudential regulator of …

A new(ish) tool in the toolkit

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… price growth; lending indicators: higher-risk residential mortgage lending, business lending conditions, and loan … conditions At an industry level, shares of higher-risk mortgage lending continued to moderate over the September … observations (7 March 2017). The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) is the prudential regulator of …

Stress testing insurers during COVID-19: results and key learnings

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… by gross written premium (GWP), and four active lenders mortgage insurers (LMIs) (covering most of the sector by … financial system. COVID-19 The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) is the prudential regulator of …

APRA Chair Wayne Byres - Speech to the Financial Stability Institute (FSI) Executives’ Meeting of East Asia-Pacific Central Banks (EMEAP) – Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) High Level Meeting

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… welcome, let me say again that the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) and the Reserve Bank of Australia … standards then need to be translated into domestic regulation; bank policies, systems and frameworks then have … give three recent examples: The first is in the area of mortgage lending. In 2014, we initiated a quite intensive …

APRA: The global financial crisis and beyond

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… credit quality and capital requirements for lenders mortgage insurers) and in the supervision of conglomerate … transparency and accountability, enhancing sound regulation, promoting integrity in financial markets and … Supervision, the global standard-setting body for banking regulation. This was a welcome development, ensuring that we …

APRA announces ‘unquestionably strong’ capital benchmarks

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… new benchmarks by 1 January 2020 The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) today announced its assessment on … contact APRA on  1300 558 849 . The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) is the prudential regulator of …

Mutuals: A look back and ahead

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… rate floor. Applying a floor, based on the average mortgage rate over at least one interest rate cycle, would … that are estimated in your models while paying off a large mortgage. We would expect serviceability models, at the … improvement. Some final thoughts And what of prudential regulation? Prudential regulation has taken APRA and mutual …

Individual challenges and mutual opportunities

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… align with measures to target higher risk residential mortgage lending, as well as the high concentration in … to reduce further the remaining residual difference in mortgage lending risk weights, delivering on the second … and (simultaneously) a desire to avoid differences in regulation creating competitive inequalities when different …

APRA Deputy Chair Margaret Cole - Remarks to the Conexus Retirement Conference

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… be good reasons for making this decision, say to pay off a mortgage, and each individual’s circumstances are unique, … Thank you. Margaret Cole The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) is the prudential regulator of …

Deputy Chair John Lonsdale - speech to Customer Owned Banking Association (COBA) 2020 Convention

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… contact APRA on  1300 558 849 . The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) is the prudential regulator of …

APRA's current focus in superannuation

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… number of managed investment schemes (MIS), predominantly mortgage and property schemes, suspended or froze redemptions … Or what are the heavens for?’ The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) is the prudential regulator of …

Therese McCarthy Hockey remarks to COBA CEO and Directors Forum

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… that customers are rewarding them for it; and   leveraging mortgage broker channels to reach more customers. The data … - Australian Banking Association The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) is the prudential regulator of …

The Australian banking system under stress – again?

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… exposures, contributed only a fifth of total losses. The mortgage portfolio alone was not the principal driver of losses, a reflection of the structure of the domestic mortgage market as well as the general tightening in lending … Settlements, May 2009. The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) is the prudential regulator of …

Opening Statement to the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Economics - October 2020

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… loan repayment deferrals and expectations in relation to mortgage serviceability assessments. 11 May (and weekly … contact APRA on  1300 558 849 . The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) is the prudential regulator of …

Opening Statement to Senate Economics Legislation Committee - October 2020

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… loan repayment deferrals and expectations in relation to mortgage serviceability assessments. 11 May (and weekly … contact APRA on  1300 558 849 . The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) is the prudential regulator of …

APRA releases international capital comparison study

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… 13 July 2015 Print Email   15.18 The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) has today released the results of … contact APRA on  1300 558 849 . The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) is the prudential regulator of …

APRA Chair Wayne Byres - Speech to the Australian Financial Review Banking and Wealth Summit

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… a priority issue. Our namesake in the UK, the Prudential Regulation Authority, is probably leading in this regard[3]. … which tasked APRA to develop a much stronger framework of regulation and supervision of remuneration[7].  We will have … contact APRA on  1300 558 849 . The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) is the prudential regulator of …

APRA Update - ICA Regulatory Update Seminar

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… APRA’s general philosophy and approach to supervision and regulation, and noted APRA’s regulatory agenda. Although I … participants, i.e. the industry, and also the prudential regulation and supervision of those markets. I will then outline the likely future direction of insurance regulation in response to some weaknesses that have been …

APRA Chair Wayne Byres - Speech to the 2021 UBS Australasia Conference

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… through applying more capital overall to residential mortgage portfolios given the structural concentration in … choice. Each of our various interventions in relation to mortgage lending – benchmarks on the growth in investor … not the other way around.   The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) is the prudential regulator of …

APRA Executive General Manager, Policy and Advice Division, Pat Brennan - Speech to the KangaNews Debt Capital Markets Summit

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… contact APRA on  1300 558 849 . The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) is the prudential regulator of …