EvidenceSheet
APRA CPS 230 · Management of service provider arrangements (paras 46 to 61)

CPS 230 para 48 Register of material service providers and management of their risks

The entity must identify its material service providers, keep a register of them and manage the material risks of using them. A material service provider (or material arrangement) is one the entity relies on to carry out a critical operation or one that exposes it to material operational risk; it may be an unrelated third party, a related party or a connected entity, and materiality may come from one arrangement or several taken together.

Source: APRA CPS 230, CPS 230 para 48. The statement above is our statement of the clause, read from the published text and cited so you can check it against the official text, not the instrument verbatim. Open APRA CPS 230 in the compliance library.

Applies to APRA-regulated entities.

3
artefacts
0
held by a system
1
at each review
hard
to go live
Vendor register / contract repository
where the evidence lives
teal = a system already holds it · olive = produced at each review. To go live: easy when half or more of the artefacts are already held by a system, moderate from a quarter to a half, hard below a quarter.

These are the artefacts auditors commonly ask for on this requirement, our guidance rather than text from the standard. Your assessor decides what is sufficient in your context, and asks for samples across the period when a report covers one.

system holds itEvidence a system already holds

none for this control

periodic reviewEvidence produced at each review

  • Materiality assessments covering related parties and aggregated arrangements · Vendor register / contract repository

governing documentDocuments that govern the control

  • Register of material service providers with service, critical operation supported and materiality rationale · Vendor register / contract repository
  • Risk assessments and treatment plans per material provider · Vendor register / contract repository

First move

No system holds this evidence for you: it is people and documents. Reminders and routing to the owner still save time. Put the document under version control with an owner and review date, and log each review as a record with reviewer and date.

Common gaps auditors find

Do this for your whole sheet

Paste the rows you run your controls from and get this mapping for every control at once, with the periodic-review ones flagged and a first move per row. No account for the first run.

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CPS 230 para 47 Required content of the service provider policy, including fourth parties · CPS 230 para 49 Minimum material service provider classifications unless justified