July 20 (Reuters) - Commonwealth Bank of Australia CBA.AX :
* Cba's response to apra's release on mortgage risk weights CBA.AX
* Says acknowledges the release of the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority's (APRA) increase to capital requirements
* "In expectation of APRA's recent announcements, CBA has been working on number of options for managing capital over the coming year"
* APRA's release means from 1 July 2016 risk weightings of CBA's Australian residential mortgages will increase to average risk weight of at least 25 percent
* For CBA, sees this will have effect of increasing amount of Common Equity Tier 1 required for Australian residential mortgages
* For CBA, sees increase in CET1 by approximately 95 basis points from 1 July 2016
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