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AU: APS 210 Liquidity

Regulator APRA
Jurisdiction AU
Status live
Applicability Platform

APRA Prudential Standard APS 210 Liquidity governs liquidity risk management for authorised deposit-taking institutions. Category 1 (large) ADIs must maintain a Liquidity Coverage Ratio (LCR) ≥ 100% and a Net Stable Funding Ratio (NSFR) ≥ 100%. Category 2 (smaller) ADIs must maintain a Minimum Liquidity Holding (MLH) of 9% of liabilities as a simpler proxy. All ADIs must operate a board-approved liquidity risk management framework including a Contingency Funding Plan (CFP), intraday liquidity monitoring, and periodic stress testing.

A challenger bank will be classified Category 2 in the early operating period. The platform is designed to support Category 1 LCR/NSFR from day one as the ADI is expected to reach Category 1 classification within the business plan horizon.


Compliance register

This register maps every material obligation under APS 210 to the platform control or institutional process that satisfies it. It is the static traceability layer for the Totara compliance report — dynamic data (module build status, test evidence, control test dates) is overlaid at runtime.

Scope legend

Symbol Meaning
🤖 Automated Platform enforces or performs the obligation. Primary control mode is GATE, AUTO, CALC, or ALERT. Human action is not required in the normal case.
📊 Evidenced Platform captures the evidence trail automatically. Human compliance decision sits on top. Primary control mode is LOG.
🏛 Institutional Obligation is met by a process entirely outside the platform — ALCO, board, treasury. Platform may generate evidence inputs but does not own the process.
N/A Obligation does not apply to this deployment configuration.

Build legend

Symbol Meaning
Module built and deployed
🔨 Module planned — not yet built (build_status: Not started)
Uncontrolled gap — no module attributed

Category 1 ADI — LCR and NSFR

Ref Obligation Scope Policy Platform controls Build
Para 14 Maintain LCR ≥ 100% on a daily basis; High Quality Liquid Assets (HQLA) must cover net cash outflows over a 30-day stress period 🤖 Automated CLQ-002 MOD-032 (CALC) — LCR calculated from real data continuously; no manual spreadsheet, no T+1 lag; ALERT raised if LCR approaches 100% threshold 🔨
Para 22 Maintain NSFR ≥ 100% on a monthly basis; available stable funding must exceed required stable funding 🤖 Automated CLQ-002 MOD-032 (CALC) — NSFR calculated from balance sheet funding profile; updated on each funding event 🔨
Para 26 Intraday liquidity — monitor and manage intraday liquidity positions in real time 🤖 Automated CLQ-002 MOD-150 (CALC) — intraday payment system exposure computed in real-time from the payment event stream, extending MOD-032's end-of-day LCR calculation to cover intraday exposure 🔨

Category 2 ADI — MLH (initial operating period)

Ref Obligation Scope Policy Platform controls Build
Para 40 Maintain MLH ≥ 9% of liabilities; liquid assets must meet composition requirements 🤖 Automated CLQ-002 MOD-032 (CALC) — MLH ratio computed as an alternative output when Category 2 mode is active; Category 2 / Category 1 classification is a configuration parameter 🔨

Liquidity risk framework and stress testing

Ref Obligation Scope Policy Platform controls Build
Para 50 Liquidity stress testing — conduct 3-month and 12-month scenario stress tests on a periodic basis 🤖 Automated CLQ-002 MOD-034 (CALC) — stress testing scenario engine runs liquidity stress scenarios; outputs consumed by MOD-150 RAF dashboard 🔨
Para 55 Contingency Funding Plan — board-approved plan covering early warning indicators, liquidity response actions, and escalation procedures 🏛 Institutional CLQ-002 MOD-150 (CALC) — early warning indicators from the RAF dashboard provide the quantitative trigger data for the CFP; CFP document, approval, and activation are institutional acts

Reporting

Ref Obligation Scope Policy Platform controls Build
Para 62 Monthly APRA liquidity reporting — LCR return (ARS 210.0 / D2A) or MLH return depending on category 🤖 Automated REP-002 MOD-036 (AUTO) — prudential return builder produces ARS 210 liquidity return from MOD-032 outputs automatically on schedule; MOD-036 (LOG) — every figure traceable to source calculation 🔨

Institutional obligations (not platform scope)

Obligation Owner Platform evidence input
Board-approved Liquidity Risk Management Framework Board / ALCO MOD-032 and MOD-150 provide the quantitative backbone; framework document approval is a board resolution
Contingency Funding Plan design, approval, and activation ALCO / CFO / Board MOD-150 early warning indicators are the CFP trigger inputs; CFP is an institutional document
Annual CFP testing ALCO / COO MOD-034 stress engine provides the simulation environment; test execution and results review are institutional
APRA liquidity supervisory review and dialogue CFO / CRO MOD-032 and MOD-036 produce the submission-ready data; supervisory engagement is institutional

Coverage summary

Area Total obligations Platform automated 🤖 Platform evidenced 📊 Institutional 🏛 N/A
LCR / NSFR (Category 1) 3 3 0 0 0
MLH (Category 2) 1 1 0 0 0
Stress testing and CFP 2 1 0 1 0
Reporting 1 1 0 0 0
Total 7 6 (86%) 0 (0%) 1 (14%) 0

All attributed modules are currently build_status: Not started. The compliance position will update as modules are built and deployed.


Policy Title
CLQ-002 Liquidity Risk Management Policy
REP-002 Prudential Reporting Policy

Official documentation


Policies referencing this standard

  • CLQ-002 — Liquidity Risk Management Policy
  • REP-002 — Prudential Reporting Policy

Compiled 2026-05-22 from source/entities/regulations/au-aps-210.yaml