Monthly return (PMB Monthly Returns)

The facts

Who files

Every primary mortgage bank (PMB). Source

How often

Monthly. Source

Deadline

Not later than 14 days after the end of each month. Source

Format

Other. Submitted through an electronic channel prescribed by the CBN from time to time; 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

• Banks and Other Financial Institutions Act (BOFIA), section 58(2)(b)
• Revised Guidelines for Primary Mortgage Banks in Nigeria, section 4.1

Group

Financial statements

Templates (35)

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

• Statement of Assets and Liabilities (I)
• Income Statement for the Month (II)
• Report on Interest Rates (III)
• Schedule of Other Liabilities (IV)
• Breakdown of Other Liabilities (V)
• Schedule of Other Assets (VI)
• Breakdown of Other Assets (VII)
• Schedule of Placements with Banks in Nigeria (VIII)
• Schedule of Takings from Banks (IX)
• Schedule of Takings from Other Financial Institutions (X)
• Schedule of Commercial Papers (XI)
• Schedule of Money at Call with Banks (XII)
• Schedule of Money at Call from Banks (XIII)
• Schedule of Placement with Other Financial Institutions (XIV)
• Schedule of Money at Call with Other Financial Institutions (XV)
• Schedule of Money at Call from Other Financial Institutions (XVI)

Named in Annexure 2 of the Revised Guidelines for Primary Mortgage Banks in Nigeria. No separate downloadable workbook or blank form for these 35 schedules was found on the pages read (see gaps). 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 (3)

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.

• Revised Guidelines for Primary Mortgage Banks in Nigeria

  Guidance · PDF · 418.7 KB · 1 November 2011

  SHA-256 649775b21ca3show in fullhide

  649775b21ca3557a070fc3c5aa85aa885e71c4000b08126c03ca758354bf1a20
• 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 fullhide

  d1879af57acf0d45113f6c88f4188ffc2b931dd1f97dcc27cc3b5c3dba248204
• Other Financial Institutions Supervision Circulars (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

Every page and document this return's facts were read from.

• cbn.gov.ng/Out/2013/OFISD/Revised%20Guidelines%20for%20Primary%20Mortgage%20Banks%20in%20Nigeria.pdf
• cbn.gov.ng/api/GetOFISCirculars

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