NOTES

FORTHCOMING ISSUES

ISSUE (QUARTER)	Release Date
March 2013	29 May 2013
June 2013	22 August 2013

REVISIONS

No revisions were made during the December quarter 2012.


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SUMMARY COMMENTARY


KEY FIGURES

Securitisers, Australia - Assets and Liabilities(a)
			Sep Qtr 2012	Dec Qtr 2012	Sep Qtr 2011 to Dec Qtr 2012
			$m	$m	%
Total assets at end of qtr			124 803	125 221	0.3
of which
	Mortgages
		Residential	103 653	102 819	-0.8
		Non-residential	1 636	1 862	13.8
Total liabilities at end of qtr			124 803	125 221	0.3
of which
	Asset backed Securities
		Issued domestically	93 393	93 807	0.4
		Issued off shore	16 163	15 755	-2.5
(a) See paragraph 7 of the Explanatory Notes for details of the coverage of these statistics.

Assets of Securitisers

As at 31 December 2012, total assets of Australian securitisers were $125.2b, up $0.4b (0.3%) on 30 September 2012.

During the December quarter 2012, the rise in total assets was due primarily to rises in other loans (up $1.0b, 7.8%), non-residential mortgage loans (up $0.2b, 13.8%) and credit card loans and trade receivables (up $0.1b, 42.2%). This was partially offset by the falls in residential mortgage loans (down $0.8b, 0.8%) and cash and deposits (down $0.1b, 2.0%).

Mortgage assets, which accounted for 83.6% of total assets, were $104.7b as at 31 December 2012, a fall of $0.6b (0.6%) during the quarter.

Liabilities of Securitisers

As at 31 December 2012, total liabilities of Australian securitisers were $125.2b, up $0.4b (0.3%) on 30 September 2012. The rise in total liabilities was due primarily to rises in long-term asset backed securities issued in Australia (up $1.4b, 1.6%) and loans and placements (up $0.8b, 8.5%). These were partially offset by the falls in short-term asset backed securities issued in Australia (down $1.0b, 12.0%) and asset backed securities issued overseas (down $0.4b, 2.5%).

As at 31 December 2012, asset backed securities issued overseas as a proportion of total liabilities fell to 12.6%, down 0.4 percentage point on the September quarter 2012 percentage of 13.0%, while asset backed securities issued domestically as a proportion of total liabilities rose to 74.9%, up 0.1 percentage point on the September quarter 2012 percentage of 74.8%.