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       Standards issued but not yet effective                           IFRS 9 Financial Instruments                                                   (b) Impairment                                                   The QFC Regulatory Authority plans to adopt the new standard on
       The standards and interpretations that are issued, but not yet effec-  In July 2014, the IASB issued the final version of IFRS 9 Financial      IFRS 9 requires the QFC Regulatory Authority to record expected   1 January 2018, mandatory for financial years commencing on or
       tive, up to the date of issuance of the QFC Regulatory Authority’s   Instruments that replaces IAS 39 Financial Instruments: Recognition        credit losses on all of its terms deposits, accounts receivables. The   after 1 January 2018.
       financial statements are disclosed below. The QFC Regulatory     and Measurement and all previous versions of IFRS 9. IFRS 9 brings             QFC Regulatory Authority will apply the simplified approach and   IFRS 16 Leases
       Authority intends to adopt these standards, if applicable, when   together all three aspects of the accounting for financial instru-            record lifetime expected losses on all account receivables and
       they become effective.                                                                                                                                                                                           IFRS 16 was issued in January 2016 and it replaces IAS 17 Leases,
                                                                        ments project: classification and measurement, impairment and                  general approach to determine credit losses on terms deposits.   IFRIC 4 Determining whether an Arrangement contains a Lease,
       Topics                                   Effective date          hedge accounting. IFRS 9 is effective for annual periods beginning             (c) Hedge accounting                                             SIC-15 Operating Leases-Incentives and SIC-27 Evaluating the Sub-
                                                                        on or after 1 January 2018, with early application permitted.
       IFRS 15 Revenue from Contracts          1 January 2018                                                                                          The QFC Regulatory Authority is not involved in any hedge rela-  stance of Transactions Involving the Legal Form of a Lease. IFRS 16
       with Customers                                                   The QFC Regulatory Authority plans to adopt the new standard on                tionship. Hence, changes related to the hedge accounting is not   sets out the principles for the recognition, measurement, presen-
                                                                        the required effective date and will not restate comparative infor-                                                                             tation and disclosure of leases and requires lessees to account
       IFRS 9 Financial Instruments            1 January 2018                                                                                          applicable to the QFC Regulatory Authority.
                                                                        mation. During 2017, the QFC Regulatory Authority has performed                                                                                 for all leases under a single on-balance sheet model similar to the
       IFRS 2 Classification and Measurement   1 January 2018           a detailed impact assessment of all three aspects of IFRS 9. This              (d) Expected impact                                              accounting for finance leases under IAS 17.
       of Share-based Payment Transactions –                            assessment is based on currently available information and may be              The QFC Regulatory Authority estimates its transition impact to be
       Amendments to IFRS 2                                             subject to changes arising from further reasonable and supportable             approximately in the range of 0.25% to 0.30% of opening retained   The  standard  includes  two  recognition  exemptions  for  lessees
                                                                                                                                                                                                                        – leases of “low-value” assets (e.g., personal computers) and short-
                                                                        information being made available to the QFC Regulatory Authority               surplus on the date of initial application, as debit to net retained
       Transfers of Investment Property—       1 January 2018           in 2018 when the QFC Regulatory Authority will adopt IFRS 9. Overall,                                                                           term leases (i.e., leases with a lease term of 12 months or less).
       Amendments to IAS 40                                                                                                                            surpus resulting from expected credit losses on financial assets.  At the commencement date of a lease, a lessee will recognise
                                                                        the QFC Regulatory Authority expects no significant impact on its
       IFRS 16 Leases                          1 January 2019           statement of financial position and equity except for the effect of            IFRS 15 Revenue from Contracts with Customers                    a liability to make lease payments (i.e., the lease liability) and an
                                                                                                                                                                                                                        asset representing the right to use the underlying asset during the
       IFRS 17 Insurance Contracts             1 January 2021           applying the impairment requirements of IFRS 9. The QFC Regula-                IFRS 15 was issued in May 2014, and amended in April 2016, and   lease term (i.e., the right-of-use asset). Lessees will be required to
                                                                        tory Authority expects an increase in the loss allowance resulting             establishes a five-step model to account for revenue arising from
       Annual Improvements 2014-2016 Cycle                              in a negative impact on equity as discussed below. In addition,                contracts with customers. Under IFRS 15, revenue is recognised   separately recognise the interest expense on the lease liability and
                                                                        the QFC Regulatory Authority does not expect any classification                at an amount that reflects the consideration to which an entity   the depreciation expense on the right-of-use asset. Lessees will also
       IFRS 1 First-time Adoption of International   1 January 2018                                                                                                                                                     be required to re-measure the lease liability upon the occurrence
       Financial Reporting Standards – Deletion                         changes due to the new IFRS adoption.                                          expects to be entitled in exchange for transferring goods or services   of certain events (e.g., a change in the lease term, a change in
       of short-term exemptions for first-time                          (a) Classification and measurement                                             to a customer.                                                   future lease payments resulting from a change in an index or rate
       adopters                                                                                                                                        The  new  revenue  standard  will  supersede  all  current  revenue   used to determine those payments). The lessee will generally rec-
                                                                        The QFC Regulatory Authority does not expect a significant impact
       IAS 28 Investments in Associates and Joint   1 January 2018      on its statement of financial position or statement of changes in              recognition requirements under IFRS. Either a full retrospective   ognise the amount of the remeasurement of the lease liability as
       Ventures – Clarification that measuring                          equity on applying the classification and measurement require-                 application or a modified retrospective application is required for   an adjustment to the right-of-use asset.
       investees at fair value through profit or loss                   ments of IFRS 9. The QFC Regulatory Authority does not have any                annual periods beginning on or after 1 January 2018. Early adoption   Lessor accounting under IFRS 16 is substantially unchanged from
       is an investment-by-investment choice                                                                                                           is permitted.
                                                                        financial assets carried at fair value; therefore, the application of                                                                           today’s accounting under IAS 17. Lessors will continue to classify all
       Applying IFRS 9 Financial Instruments with   1 January 2018      IFRS 9 will not have an impact on classification of financial assets.          In the QFC Regulatory Authority’s assessment, the fee income arising   leases using the same classification principle as in IAS 17 and distin-
       IFRS 4 Insurance Contracts – Amendments                                                                                                         on application processing is non-refundable and will be recognised   guish between two types of leases: operating and finance leases.
       to IFRS 4                                                        Accounts receivables and term deposits are held to collect con-
                                                                        tractual cash flows and are expected to give rise to cash flows                as income when received under IFRS 15. Annual license fees are   IFRS 16 also requires lessees and lessors to make more extensive
       IFRIC Interpretation 22 Foreign Currency   1 January 2018        representing solely payments of principal and interest. The QFC                recognised as income on a straight line basis over the period to   disclosures than under IAS 17. The QFC Regulatory Authority is cur-
       Transactions and Advance Consideration                                                                                                          which they relate. Service rendering under IFRS 15, which will con-
                                                                        Regulatory Authority analysed the contractual cash flow charac-                                                                                 rently performing an initial assessment of the potential impact of
       IFRIC Interpretation 23 Uncertainty over   1 January 2019        teristics of those instruments and concluded that they meet the                tinue to be accounted for under the same basis as IAS 18 Revenue,   the adoption of IFRS 16 on its financial statements.
       Income Tax Treatment                                             criteria for amortised cost measurement under IFRS 9. Therefore,               is generally expected to have only one performance obligation.
       The QFC Regulatory Authority did not early adopt any standards,   reclassification for these instruments is not required.                       Considering the above, adoption of IFRS 15 is not expected to
       interpretations or amendments that have been issued but are not                                                                                 have any impact on the QFC Regulatory Authority’s revenue and
       yet effective. However, the QFC Regulatory Authority has carried                                                                                profit or loss, when applied, on the financial statements of the QFC
       out assessment of the impact of application of major standards,                                                                                 Regulatory Authority.
       IFRS 9 Financial Instruments and IFRS 15 Revenue from Contracts
       with Customers on its financial statements and disclosed below:
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