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title: "FR 2052a: Complex Institution Liquidity Monitoring Report (restricted access)"
description: >-
  FR 2052a is the Federal Reserve's confidential liquidity-monitoring collection
  from large banking organizations: daily and monthly cash inflows and outflows
  by counterparty, product, and maturity. It is confidential supervisory data:
  this page documents what it is and the gotchas, but it was not exercised here
  and is not publicly accessible.
sidebar:
  label: FR 2052a
tags: [banks, liquidity, funding, banking, federal-reserve, data:fr-2052a]
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:::caution[Confidential supervisory data: not exercised here]
**FR 2052a is confidential supervisory data** collected by the Federal Reserve.
It is **not for sale and not publicly downloadable**: it carries **no provenance
badge** because there is no access path we can run here. Researchers reach it
only through a Federal Reserve affiliation or an approved restricted-data
arrangement, inside a secure environment, with output subject to disclosure
review. The page documents what the collection is and the gotchas; treat it as
unverified. This is the honest grade under the institute's Verified discipline.
:::

**FR 2052a** (the Complex Institution Liquidity Monitoring Report) is the
granular liquidity-flow collection that supports the Federal Reserve's
liquidity supervision and the Liquidity Coverage Ratio (LCR) framework. Large
banking organizations report cash and securities inflows and outflows broken
down by counterparty, product type, and maturity bucket, at daily frequency for
the largest filers and monthly for smaller ones. It is the most detailed view of
a bank's funding structure available to supervisors. A paper we distill uses it:
[Cooperman, Duffie, Luck, Wang & Yang](/wiki/papers/jf/2025/cooperman-bank-funding-risk-reference-2025/)
use FR 2052a (with [FR Y-14Q](/wiki/confidential/fr-y14q/)) for bank balance sheet
and funding composition by counterparty and product, the main panel for their
COVID-period empirics (20 BHCs, July 2017 to April 2022).

- **Cost:** not for sale. Restricted-access confidential supervisory data.
- **Collector:** Federal Reserve Board (the FR 2052a collection).
- **Coverage:** large banking organizations subject to enhanced liquidity
  standards; daily for the largest, monthly for smaller filers. The reporting
  population and granularity have changed across collection vintages.

## Access (restricted)

- **No public download.** The microdata is confidential and is not posted on the
  Fed website or FRED.
- **Through a supervisory affiliation or approved program.** Access is limited to
  researchers at the Federal Reserve System or others granted entry to the
  restricted data, worked inside a secure environment with output subject to
  disclosure review.
- The published **form and instructions** are public (the Fed posts the FR 2052a
  reporting template), so the schedule and field definitions can be read even
  though the data cannot be pulled.

## Gotchas (the ones that bite pipelines)

These are the failure modes to expect; they are documented, not verified here.

- **Coverage is only the largest banks, so it is not the banking system.** Only
  organizations subject to enhanced liquidity standards report, so the sample is
  a selected set of the largest filers. Do not generalize liquidity findings to
  smaller banks.
- **Mixed daily and monthly frequency.** The largest filers report daily while
  smaller ones report monthly; aligning the panel to a common frequency drops or
  coarsens part of the sample. Be explicit about which frequency a given filer
  contributes.
- **The product and counterparty taxonomy is the schema, and it changed.** Flows
  are classified into a detailed product-by-counterparty-by-maturity grid that
  has been revised across vintages; a category can change meaning between
  versions. Read the form instructions for your sample period.
- **Reporting population shifts for regulatory reasons.** Filers enter and exit as
  thresholds and tailoring rules change, breaking the panel for non-economic
  reasons. Control for the changing population.
- **Flows, not stocks.** The report is built around projected inflows and
  outflows under the LCR construct; do not read a flow cell as a balance-sheet
  stock without mapping it to the reporting definition.
- **Output is disclosure-reviewed and cannot be redistributed.** Results leave
  the secure environment only after review, and the microdata itself cannot be
  shared. Plan for aggregation and review when designing what you report.

## Citation

Cite the collection and collector, e.g.: *FR 2052a (Federal Reserve Board),
confidential supervisory data; accessed under restricted-data arrangement,
YYYY-MM-DD.* State the reporting frequency, the sample window, and the filer
population for your period.