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Westpac Group Pillar 3 Report March 2013 - Iguana IR Sites

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PILLAR 3 REPORT<br />

CREDIT RISK MANAGEMENT<br />

Mapping of Credit risk approach to Basel categories and exposure types<br />

Approach APS asset class Types of exposures<br />

Transaction-Managed<br />

Corporate<br />

Direct lending<br />

Portfolios<br />

Sovereign<br />

Contingent lending<br />

Bank<br />

Derivative counterparty<br />

Asset warehousing<br />

Underwriting<br />

Secondary market trading<br />

Foreign exchange settlement<br />

Other intra-day settlement<br />

obligations<br />

Program-Managed<br />

Portfolios<br />

Residential mortgage<br />

Qualifying revolving retail<br />

Other retail<br />

Mortgages<br />

Equity access loans<br />

Australian credit cards<br />

Personal loans<br />

Overdrafts<br />

New Zealand credit cards<br />

Auto and equipment finance<br />

Business development loans<br />

Business overdrafts<br />

Other term products<br />

Internal ratings process for transaction-managed portfolios<br />

The process for assigning and approving individual customer PDs and facility LGDs involves:<br />

Business unit representatives recommend the CRG and facility LGDs under the guidance of criteria set out in<br />

established credit policies. Each CRG is associated with an estimated PD;<br />

Authorised officers evaluate the recommendations and approve the final CRG and facility LGDs. Credit officers<br />

may override line business unit recommendations; and<br />

An expert judgement decisioning process is employed to evaluate CRG and the outputs of various risk grading<br />

models are used as one of several inputs into that process.<br />

For on-going exposures to transaction-managed customers, risk grades and facility LGDs are required to be<br />

reviewed at least annually, but also whenever material changes occur.<br />

No material deviations from the reference definition of default are permitted.<br />

Internal ratings process for program-managed portfolios<br />

The process for assigning PDs, LGDs and EADs to the retail portfolio involves dividing the portfolio into a number<br />

of pools per product. These pools are created by analysing the homogeneity of risk characteristics that have<br />

historically proven predictive in determining whether an account is likely to go into default.<br />

No material deviations from the reference definition of default are permitted.<br />

Internal credit risk ratings system<br />

In addition to using the credit risk estimates as the basis for regulatory capital purposes, they are also used for the<br />

purposes described here.<br />

Economic capital - <strong>Westpac</strong> allocates economic capital to all exposures. Economic capital includes both credit<br />

and non-credit components. Economic credit capital is allocated using a framework that considers estimates of<br />

PD, LGD, EAD, total committed exposure and loan tenor, as well as measures of portfolio composition not<br />

reflected in regulatory capital formulae.<br />

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