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In forceBanking: Economic and financial statistics (for the ABS and RBA)Last checked 11 November 2026

Debt securities held, economic statistics (ARS 720.4)

A regulatory return listed by the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA), Australia.

Collects information on an ADI's or registered financial corporation's debt securities held. The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) and the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) use it for purposes including the compilation of Australia’s national accounts and the calculation of the monetary and credit aggregates. APRA may also use it for prudential supervision and to publish statistics. Source

Official title: Reporting Standard ARS 720.4 ABS/RBA Debt Securities Held

The facts

Who files
This Reporting Standard applies to an authorised deposit-taking institution (ADI) or registered financial corporation (RFC) as set out in a table in the standard (which says which forms each class of entity completes). Source
How often
Monthly for ADIs; quarterly for registered financial corporations (RFCs). Source
Deadline
The information required by this Reporting Standard must be provided to APRA within: (a) 10 business days after the end of the reporting period to which the information relates for ADIs; and (b) 28 calendar days after the end of the reporting period to which the information relates for RFCs. Source
Format
XML, Excel, Web form. A former D2A collection now in APRA Connect: entities can upload XML or Excel or enter the data manually. APRA ended the temporary Alternate Submission Process (which also took XBRL files) for ADI collections from the 31 July 2026 (ARF 210.5), 31 August 2026 (EFS) and 30 September 2026 (other migrated collections) reporting periods. Source
How it is filed
Filing routes recorded for the APRA: APRA Connect; Alternate Submission Process (temporary). See how firms file with the APRA.
Status
In force
Legal basis
Group
Banking: Economic and financial statistics (for the ABS and RBA)

Templates (1)

The tables and forms inside the return. Plain name first, the APRA's code in brackets.

  • ABS/RBA Debt Securities Held (ARF_720_4)

Forms listed in APRA’s APRA Connect taxonomy for this migrated D2A collection (Economic and Financial Statistics). Source

Validation rules

90 rules, as counted from the APRA's published material. Software can run them exactly as published. Source

How they are written: Excel Rules worksheet with an Expression column (APRA Connect expression syntax), a constraint column and a failure message for each rule..

The rules, on apra.gov.au

How they were counted

Rules in the Rules worksheet of the APRA Connect taxonomy whose List Name, Display Text or Forms column names a form of this standard: 90 of the 1501 rules in Economic and Financial Statistics Taxonomy.xlsx (3 rules in that file name no single form, such as ABN, reporting date and some cross-form checks, and are not counted).

Counts are in the APRA's own unit, so they are not comparable with other regulators' counts.

Public data

No published data from this return was found. No APRA statistical publication was found that names this return as a source (checked the explanatory notes and specifications of APRA’s current statistical publications). Source

Official documents (9)

The APRA's own files, with the size and SHA-256 fingerprint of each as downloaded on 11 November 2026, so anyone can tell whether a copy is the same version.

Sources

Every page and document this return's facts were read from.

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Last checked 11 November 2026.