ASIC Regulatory Guide 209 Credit Licensing: Responsible Lending Conduct (Australia) for Auditors
What does ASIC Regulatory Guide 209 Credit Licensing: Responsible Lending Conduct (Australia) require of a Auditor?
ASIC Regulatory Guide 209 (December 2019), the regulator's guidance on the responsible lending obligations of the National Consumer Credit Protection Act: how licensees scale their inquiries into a consumer's requirements, objectives and financial situation, verify income and expenses, use benchmarks such as the Household Expenditure Measure only as a check, respond to red flags, divide responsibility between lenders and brokers, assess whether a product is unsuitable because the consumer cannot repay without substantial hardship or because it does not meet their objectives, apply the credit card, small amount credit contract and reverse mortgage presumptions, handle refinancing and switching, give the written assessment on request, and keep records that show the obligations were met. Under ASIC Regulatory Guide 209 Credit Licensing: Responsible Lending Conduct (Australia), which defines 14 controls, a Auditor's work is deciding which controls you own outright, which you share and which belong to another team, then holding the evidence for the first group.
Which ASIC Regulatory Guide 209 Credit Licensing: Responsible Lending Conduct (Australia) controls land on the Auditor
Internal Auditors assess whether compliance controls are operating effectively. They plan and execute audit engagements, evaluate evidence, report findings, and track remediation of identified gaps and nonconformities.
ASIC Regulatory Guide 209 Credit Licensing: Responsible Lending Conduct (Australia) defines 14 controls across 3 domains that directly affect the Auditor role. Understanding which controls fall within your ownership, which are shared, and which are owned by other teams is the foundation of effective compliance management.
What a Auditor is accountable for under ASIC Regulatory Guide 209 Credit Licensing: Responsible Lending Conduct (Australia)
Planning and executing risk-based audit engagements against compliance frameworks
Evaluating control design and operating effectiveness through testing
Documenting findings, observations, and recommendations in audit reports
Tracking remediation actions and verifying closure of audit findings
Assessing organisational readiness for external audits and certifications
Where Auditors lose time on ASIC Regulatory Guide 209 Credit Licensing: Responsible Lending Conduct (Australia)
These are the most common obstacles Auditors face when managing ASIC Regulatory Guide 209 Credit Licensing: Responsible Lending Conduct (Australia) compliance, and how to address them:
Challenge 1
Efficiently testing controls across large, complex frameworks
Challenge 2
Accessing reliable evidence without disrupting business operations
Challenge 3
Mapping controls across multiple frameworks to avoid duplicate audit testing
Challenge 4
Keeping audit programmes current with regulatory and framework changes
Challenge 5
Communicating audit findings in a way that drives management action
A working order for a Auditor starting on ASIC Regulatory Guide 209 Credit Licensing: Responsible Lending Conduct (Australia)
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