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Financial Sector Regulation Act, 2017 (Act No. 9 of 2017)

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Deposit Insurance Regulations, 2024

Chapter V: Governance and Oversight Requirements

22. Internal audit requirements

 

(1) A bank, as a minimum, must have the following controls in place:
(a) all affected business units, including a bank’s internal audit function, must have embedded internal procedures in their normal conduct of business to comply with the Corporation’s requirements for the calculation and submission of a bank’s total qualifying deposits and total covered deposits as specified in these regulations;
(b) the internal procedures must allow business units to identify and address data inaccuracies and exceptions quickly and adequately to avoid errors; and
(c) a bank must document its internal procedures and controls for complying with the Corporation’s requirements, and such documentation must—
(i) cover the process a bank uses to collect, process, and compile its SCV records and SCV calculations; and
(ii) identify areas where the bank can improve the effectiveness of its controls.

 

(2) A bank must, on an ongoing basis, review and keep up to date the documentation referred to in subregulation (1)(c) and submit the documentation to the Corporation upon request.

 

(3) A bank’s internal audit function must—
(a) continuously monitor and assess the reliability of a bank’s internal controls in terms of the preparation of the bank’s total qualifying deposits and total covered deposits using SCV calculations; and
(b) report on the outcome of its assessment in accordance with paragraph (a) to the Corporation and the Prudential Authority within the last quarter of the bank’s financial year.