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Liquidity Tabletop Drills Are No Longer Optional. Here's Why
Banks are moving beyond regulatory checkboxes to actively simulate liquidity crises, uncovering gaps in contingency funding plans and redefining resilience.
Jul 28, 2025
Henry Kwan, SVP & Deputy Treasurer, East West Bank
Tags:
ALM, Treasury and Liquidity Risk
The views and opinions expressed in this content are those of the thought leader as an individual and are not attributed to CeFPro or any other organization
- Silicon Valley
Bank’s collapse triggered an urgent reassessment of liquidity readiness
- Conducting
full-scale tabletop exercises serves as an effective method for validating a
bank’s contingency funding plan (CFP). Company-wide coordination and live crisis
simulation revealed procedural gaps
- CFPs must
evolve as living documents, not static compliance tools
- Readiness to
act is more important than simply having access to liquidity
- Integration
between ALM and liquidity analytics is a strategic priority
- AI supports
scenario generation and early warning signals, but requires oversight
- Behavioral
models are being enhanced through machine learning
- Regular crisis
simulations will improve institutional speed and precision
- Preparedness, not perfection, is the real measure of liquidity resilience
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