Existing Stage 1 and New Stage 2 Bank-Specific Relational Corporate Governance Variables for Australian Banks

Table10.1 of Chap. 10 sets out the ‘Key Groupings’. These are the key Groupings, prefixes or abbreviations of the Stage 1 and new Stage 2 bank-specific governance variables – at the activity or function level – spanning 159 categories for a ‘deep dive’ review of each activity or function. These Groupings were introduced in Chap. 1 . Table10.2 of Chap. 10 is the ‘Bank Combined Coverage and Relational Proximity Table’. This Table contains the Key Grouping, prefix or abbreviation assigned to the governance variable in an Accountability Statement or Accountability Map required by the BEAR. As noted in Sect. 1.1 of Chap. 1 above, the description of each governance variable introduced in Table 10.2 gives the actual description of the enquiry step required at the ‘nuts and bolts’ bank level. Section references to this Stage 2 Key Code and Advanced Handbook for the analysis of commentators, government, Regulators/Supervisors, major bank and market participant reports and the relational effect path for each existing Stage 1 and new Stage 2 bank-specific governance variable are set out in the right-hand column of Table 10.2. Each governance variable in this Stage 2 has its origin identified from reports, papers and findings in Sect. 1.2 of Chap. 1 . As noted in Sect. 1.1 , Stage 2 is also a Key Code because all its Stage 2 bank-specific governance variables – 1749 in number – are modelled or based on, or derived from, a handful of ‘Key’ or ‘Core’ governance variables from the original thirty-nine variables of Stage 1. Thus Table 10.2 also contains a new feature – a reference to the Stage 1 Key or Core governance variable after which the Stage 2 governance variable is modelled or based. Foreshadowing the ‘relational proximity ratings’ for this Stage 2, the target or hypothesised coverage/rating of each Stage 1 and Stage 2 bank-specific governance variable is set out in the column headed ‘Target/Hypothesised Coverage/Relational Proximity Rating rprox’ of Table 10.2.