mortgage regulation
APRA Chair Wayne Byres - Speech to the Australian Business Economists
… On 1 July, APRA turned 20. Two decades of prudential regulation have required APRA to tackle all manner of issues, … banking system. I’ll recap our actions to reinforce sound mortgage lending policies and practices over the past few … maintaining sound lending Let me start with residential mortgage lending standards.[3] APRA has been focused for some …
Macro prudence vs macro-prudential supervision
… exposed to a terms of trade shock. In our supervision and regulation, we seek to create an Australian financial system … States and Europe. In other words, those institutions that regulation is set up to protect most carefully, failed most … We removed capital arbitrages between the ADI and lenders mortgage insurance industries, and greatly increased the …
Opening Statement
… issuance of a new Prudential Practice Guide on Residential Mortgage Lending. And we have been discussing with other … the Committee’s questions. The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) is the prudential regulator of …
Regulatory update 2010
… you looked, whether in liability classes, personal lines, mortgage insurance, or even commercial property, loss ratios … Australia. The international scene - financial stability, regulation and insurance Ever since the visibility of the … fails, there can be instability. Q.v. bond insurers and mortgage insurers in the US. But we know more than that. The …
Seeking strength in adversity: Lessons from APRA's 2014 stress test on Australia's largest banks
… of higher interest rates on borrowers’ ability to meet mortgage repayments. Banks typically projected little … estimated an identical underlying loss rate (ie before mortgage insurance) across all mortgage lending LVR buckets. … efficiency even in good times. The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) is the prudential regulator of …
APRA: The year ahead
… crisis by the freezing of a number of managed funds and mortgage trusts. As we did in other industries, APRA has … been attracting close scrutiny from APRA has been lenders mortgage insurers (LMIs), which have significant exposures to … be subject to more rigorous standards of prudential regulation than others? Should hitherto unregulated financial …
What makes good prudential supervision?
… leverage, poor underwriting standards in the US subprime mortgage market, shortcomings in governance and risk … and ADI housing lending, against the background of higher mortgage rates. APRA's thematic work in the ADI industry also … to recent corporate failures. The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) is the prudential regulator of …
APRA Chair Wayne Byres - Speech to the Risk Management Association Australia CRO Board Dinner
… remarks to reflect on these past five years of prudential regulation in Australia, and what they mean for the future. … from late 2014 as we intervened quite assertively to lift mortgage lending standards. At the time, our actions were … sailed through or that some further strengthening of regulation was not justified. Risk The Australian Prudential …
Soft Stuff
… in a world of deregulation and aversion to ever more regulation, supervision will assume an even more important … will fill needs that might otherwise have been met by regulation. And an understanding of risk culture and its … to be so important, and how we are tackling them in our regulation and supervision. Footnotes For example, see this …
Deputy Chair John Lonsdale - speech to Customer Owned Banking Association (COBA) 2021 CEO & Directors Forum
… the predominate business of Australia’s banking system is mortgage lending, our focus is on ensuring that ADIs manage … from their APRA supervisor. The competition impact of regulation and lending benchmarks will always be an important … report capital ratios using the standardised approach. A mortgage risk-weight floor is proposed for IRB banks, which …
Prudential issues in securitisation
… 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 …
Credit risk reporting – Response to submissons
… KB Published 10 August 2022 The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) has released a response to … (ARS 221.0); and Reporting Standard ARS 223.0 Residential Mortgage Lending (ARS 223.0). Background On 7 April APRA …
A new(ish) tool in the toolkit
… 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 …
Beyond data collection: APRA's data modernisation agenda
… of form-based data, which grew over time in line with regulation. Our data warehouse was expanded by bolting on to …
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
… 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 …
Stress testing insurers during COVID-19: results and key learnings
… 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 …
Consultation on the confidentiality of data used in ADI quarterly publications and additional historical data
… of these statistics: Reporting Form ARF 223.0 Residential Mortgage Lending Reporting Form ARF 230.0 Commercial Property … information under section 56 of the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority Act 1998 (APRA Act). APRA may only … property exposures statistics (QPEX) ARF 223 Residential Mortgage Lending (Level 1 or Level 2) ARF 230.0 Commercial …
APRA: The global financial crisis and beyond
… 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
… 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 …