The Prudential Authority has published a draft directive on the content and frequency of supplementary information to be submitted by banks in keeping with the requirements of International Financial Reporting Standard 9: Financial Instruments (IFRS 9). This is noting that IFRS 9 introduced ‘significant changes to the classification of financial instruments and fundamentally changed the way in which impairments on financial instruments are calculated’. Stakeholders have until 17 March to comment.
Published by SA Legal Academy Policy Watch