ALMM reporting serves finance teams, risk management professionals, and regulators.
For finance and risk management:
ALMM exposes possible vulnerabilities in a bank’s liquidity profile and, by mandating more stringent reporting processes and granular treasury and risk data, promotes stronger liquidity forecasting and scenario planning. Because ALMM data feeds directly into cash flow projections, stress tests, and what-if scenarios, it must be reviewed at a detailed level and be accurate. Without ALMM-level detail, forecasts tend to skew optimistic and rely on averages rather than funding concentrations. In this way, ALMM helps banks assess whether their funding is truly stable and resilient under stress.
For regulators:
ALMM reporting acts as an alarm bell for liquidity vulnerabilities and concentration risk. It seeks to identify liquidity problems before they can develop into a full-blown crisis. KPIs such as the LCR and NSFR can appear healthy while material risks go unseen, including so-called stable funding concentrated among a small number of counterparties or liquidity gaps that emerge only in specific currencies or maturities. Historically, bank liquidity crises have been driven by sudden withdrawals from concentrated funding sources rather than the abrupt failure of regulatory ratios. ALMM reporting reveals where these concentrations exist.