Treatment of loans impacted by COVID-19
On 25 August 2021, APRA released a response to its consultation on formalising the capital measures for loans impacted by COVID-19.
August 2021
On 25 August 2021, APRA released a response to its consultation on formalising the capital measures for loans impacted by COVID-19.
APRA’s response to submissions, the final Prudential Standard APS 220 Credit Quality and non-confidential submissions are available below:
Letter
Regulatory support for loans impacted by Covid-19
Prudential Standard
Non-confidential submissions
July 2021
On 30 July 2021, APRA released a consultation letter on regulatory support for authorised deposit-taking institutions (ADIs) offering temporary financial assistance to borrowers impacted by COVID-19.
Written submissions on this consultation are due by 6 August 2021.
Letter
Consultation on loans impacted by COVID-19: Regulatory support.
September 2020
On 9 September 2020, APRA released a response to its consultation on formalising the capital measures and reporting requirements for loans impacted by COVID-19. APRA’s response to submissions, the final Prudential Standard APS 220 Credit Quality and final Reporting Standard ARS 923.2 Repayment Deferrals are available below. APRA received four non-confidential submissions in response to its consultation, which are also available below:
Letter
Prudential standard
Final Prudential Standard APS 220 Credit Quality - Clean - September 2020
Reporting standard
Final Reporting Standard ARS 923.2 Repayment Deferrals - September 2020
Non-confidential submissions
August 2020
On 13 August 2020, APRA commenced consultation on the formalisation of the capital measures and reporting requirements for loans impacted by COVID-19 through temporary legislative instruments.
To help facilitate authorised deposit-taking institutions (ADIs) supporting their customers through the COVID-19 period, APRA announced in March 2020 a temporary capital treatment for a period of up to six months for loans where the ADI had granted a repayment deferral. On 9 July 2020, APRA published a letter which extended the temporary capital treatment and also adjusted the treatment of restructured loans affected by COVID-19. As foreshadowed in that letter, this consultation formalised the announced capital measures and reporting requirements through temporary legislative instruments.
APRA gave effect to the temporary capital treatment by adding a new Attachment E to Prudential Standard APS 220 Credit Quality (APS 220). The new Attachment E operates on a time-limited basis, and modifies the application of APS 220 requirements for loans affected by COVID-19.
APRA is also collecting and publishing entity-level data on COVID-19 impacted loans through a new Reporting Standard ARS 923.2 Repayment Deferrals (ARS 923.2).
APRA invited feedback on the draft Attachment E to APS 220 as well as the draft ARS 923.2 and its approach to publishing entity level data.
Submissions were received until 21 August 2020.
The consultation letter and draft reporting standard can be found below:
Letter
Letter to authorised deposit-taking institutions: Consultation on the treatment of loans impacted by COVID-19 - the letter includes the draft Attachment E to APS 220 Credit Quality
Reporting standard
Note on submissions
It is APRA's policy to publish all submissions on the APRA website unless the respondent specifically tells APRA in writing that all or part of the submission is to remain confidential. An automatically generated confidentiality statement in an email does not satisfy this purpose. If you would like only part of your submission to be confidential, you should provide this information marked as 'confidential' in a separate attachment.
Submissions may be the subject of a request for access made under the Freedom of Information Act 1982 (FOIA). APRA will determine such requests, if any, in accordance with the provisions of the FOIA. Information in the submission about any APRA-regulated entity that is not in the public domain and that is identified as confidential will be protected by section 56 of the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority Act 1998 and will therefore be exempt from production under the FOIA.