The facts
- Who files
- Every institution licensed under the Microfinance Act as a deposit-taking microfinance institution. Source
- How often
- Every institution shall prepare an un-audited monthly financial statement. Source
- Deadline
- Submitted to the Central Bank within fifteen days from the date of the return. Source
- Format
- Other. Filed through the Bank's online returns system in a manner the Central Bank prescribes; the form itself was not found published. Source
- How it is filed
- Filing routes recorded for the CBK: Bankreturns Portal; Non-Bankreturns Portal. See how firms file with the CBK.
- Status
- In force
- Legal basis
- Group
- Balance sheet and profit and loss (microfinance banks)
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No published form was found for the CBK/MF BSM. Source
Validation rules
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Public data
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- Bank Supervision Annual Report
Added up across firms · PDF
Published once a year. Chapter 1 gives the structure of the banking sector (ownership and asset base of commercial banks, distribution of branches and ATMs, asset base of microfinance banks, and distribution of forex bureaus and money remittance providers); later chapters give sector-aggregate capital adequacy, asset quality, liquidity and profitability figures. The report does not name which return feeds each table; the returns listed here are matched by subject. Source
Official documents (1)
The CBK's own files, with the size and SHA-256 fingerprint of each as downloaded on 13 November 2026, so anyone can tell whether a copy is the same version.
- The Microfinance (Deposit-Taking Microfinance Institutions) Regulations, 2008
Template · PDF · 567.2 KB · 2008
Made under section 48(1) of the Microfinance Act. Schedules Five to Eleven annex the deposit-taking microfinance bank return forms: capital to risk weighted assets (CBK/MFPR/06, Fifth Schedule), liquidity statement (Sixth Schedule), board self-assessment (Seventh Schedule), large exposures and insider lending (Eighth Schedule), financial statements and disclosures (Ninth Schedule), risk classification and provisioning (Tenth Schedule) and the activity and portfolio report (Eleventh Schedule).
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Last checked 13 November 2026.