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Liquidity monitoring tools (LMT)

A regulatory return listed by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Nigeria.

A bundle of supplementary liquidity metrics alongside the LCR: contractual maturity mismatch, funding concentration, available unencumbered assets, the LCR by significant currency, and market-related early-warning indicators. Source

Official title: Returns on Liquidity Monitoring Tools (LMT)

The facts

Who files
Reporting banks as defined in the CBN's Guidelines on the Liquidity Coverage Ratio, i.e. commercial and merchant banks operating in Nigeria. Source
How often
Monthly for all five monitoring tools. Source
Deadline
Not later than 5 working days after the end of the month (the Guideline gives 01 January 2020 as the start date from which the 'available unencumbered assets' tool specifically was required). Source
Format
Other. Reporting banks submit returns against the templates in Appendix 1; the exact file format is not stated on the pages read. Source
How it is filed
Filing routes recorded for the CBN: FinA (Financial Analysis application); e-FASS (Electronic Financial Analysis and Surveillance System); FIFX (Financial Institutions Foreign Exchange Reporting System). See how firms file with the CBN.
Status
In force
Legal basis
Group
Liquidity

Templates (15)

The tables and forms inside the return. Plain name first, the CBN's code in brackets.

  • Contractual Cash Flow Mismatch (Table 1)
  • Information on Investments and Items with No Contractual Maturity (Table 2)
  • Customer Collateral Received (Table 3)
  • Funding Liabilities Sourced from Significant Counterparties (Table 4)
  • Funding Liabilities Sourced from Significant Products or Instruments (Table 5)
  • List of Assets and Liabilities by Significant Currencies (Table 6)
  • Time Buckets of Maturity of Exposures (Table 7)
  • Concentration of Deposit Funding (Table 8)
  • Statement of Available Unencumbered Assets (Table 9)
  • Collateral Received by the Reporting Bank (Table 10)
  • Unencumbered Assets of the Reporting Bank (Table 11)
  • LCR by Significant Currency (Table 12)
  • Movement in Equity Prices (Table 13)
  • Movement in Non-Equity Instruments (Table 14)
  • Penalties Imposed for Breach of Liquidity Requirements on Overseas Operations including Subsidiaries (Table 15)

Where the list was read: Source

Validation rules

No published validation rules were found for this return. No published validation rules for this return were found on the Central Bank of Nigeria's pages read. Source

Public data

No published data from this return was found. No publicly available data from this return was found on the pages read. Source

Official documents (4)

The CBN'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.

  • Guidelines on Liquidity Monitoring Tools (LMT)

    Guidance · PDF · 439.3 KB · 2 September 2021

    SHA-256 4777afcd5cd9show in full4777afcd5cd92d4c71a082ce93f483f545492f9a290390ffeba72259667c45b0
  • Guidelines on Liquidity Coverage Ratio (LCR)

    Guidance · PDF · 597.5 KB · 2 September 2021

    SHA-256 ef11f32bd122show in fullef11f32bd12259b6b0d74568c2a15e777cda4ccf7aebd2fd924e93624186f659
  • Banks and Other Financial Institutions Act (BOFIA), 2020

    Legal text · PDF · 2.3 MB · 2020

    This copy has no extractable text (a scanned or image-only PDF), so its section numbering could not be read directly; section references here are as quoted by the guidelines that cite it.

    SHA-256 d1879af57acfshow in fulld1879af57acf0d45113f6c88f4188ffc2b931dd1f97dcc27cc3b5c3dba248204
  • Banking Supervision Guidelines (list data)

    List of returns · JSON

    A live data feed that the CBN's page loads to show its list of documents; it changes whenever a document is added, so no size or SHA-256 is recorded.

Sources

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Source: Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), https://www.cbn.gov.ng. Documents are linked on the regulator's own site, not hosted here. The plain-English summaries are Line4's own; the CBN does not endorse this library.

Last checked 13 November 2026.