{"id":66977,"date":"2023-08-01T12:38:07","date_gmt":"2023-08-01T01:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/?p=66977"},"modified":"2023-08-01T12:38:07","modified_gmt":"2023-08-01T01:38:07","slug":"remuneration-disclosure-requirements-finalised-apra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/2023\/08\/01\/remuneration-disclosure-requirements-finalised-apra\/","title":{"rendered":"Remuneration Disclosure Requirements Finalised &#8211; APRA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>APRA has finalised new requirements for insurers, authorised deposit-taking institutions and superannuation entities to publicly disclose information on aspects of their remuneration.<\/p>\n<p>The authority says that<a href=\"https:\/\/www.apra.gov.au\/remuneration-requirements-for-all-apra-regulated-entities\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> under the updates to <em>Prudential Standard CPS 511 Remuneration<\/em><\/a>, APRA-regulated entities \u201c\u2026will need to annually publish information on their remuneration frameworks, design, governance and outcomes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It says larger and more complex entities \u201c\u2026must disclose additional quantitative information, including on payments to top executives and how they have placed a material weight on non-financial measures such as risk management.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_66982\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-66982\" style=\"width: 151px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2023\/08\/John-Lonsdale-2021-02-Executive-Headshots-APRA-website-John-1-e1690851361604.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-66982\" src=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2023\/08\/John-Lonsdale-2021-02-Executive-Headshots-APRA-website-John-1-e1690851361604.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"151\" height=\"181\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-66982\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">John Lonsdale &#8230;the changes will enhance transparency and market discipline within the financial services industry<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>APRA Chair <strong>John Lonsdale<\/strong> says the changes will enhance transparency and market discipline within the financial services industry and shine a light on the impact of risk failures and bad behaviour on remuneration outcomes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe financial services Royal Commission demonstrated conclusively how poorly designed and executed remuneration frameworks can lead to bad outcomes for the community by incentivising the wrong kinds of behaviours.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He says that one way to combat this is through heightened transparency.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;The disclosure obligations will shine additional light on how executives are incentivised&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThe disclosure obligations will shine additional light on how executives are incentivised and on the consequences for poorly managed risk.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>APRA notes that following industry feedback to the consultation launched mid-last year, the new disclosure requirements will now commence for all entities from their first full financial year following 1 January 2024.<\/p>\n<p>It has also agreed to provide additional flexibility around the timing of disclosures with annual disclosures required within six months of an entity\u2019s financial year-end.<\/p>\n<p>The regulator adds that as part of the consultation, it also proposed collecting and publishing more granular data on remuneration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAPRA\u2019s response to submissions to its consultation on draft <em>Reporting Standard CRS 511 Remuneration<\/em> will be delayed to ensure issues raised by industry are adequately addressed. The commencement date will be extended accordingly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Separately, APRA will shortly publish the findings from an implementation review of CPS 511 to assist industry with implementing the new requirements.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.apra.gov.au\/remuneration-requirements-for-all-apra-regulated-entities\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here<\/a> for the response paper to the CPS 511 consultation and the updated prudential standard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>APRA has finalised new requirements for insurers, authorised deposit-taking institutions and superannuation entities to publicly disclose information on aspects of their remuneration. The authority says that under the updates to Prudential Standard CPS 511 Remuneration, APRA-regulated entities \u201c\u2026will need to annually publish information on their remuneration frameworks, design, governance and outcomes.\u201d It says larger and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":66985,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,8282,270],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-compliance-regulation","category-government","category-remuneration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}