Fintech Risk

Liquidity Risk Stress Test Scenario Prompt

Design a liquidity risk stress test with baseline cash flow assumptions, three escalating scenarios, survival-horizon calculations, and a contingency funding plan.

Anselm Fowel / Public collection4 Oct 2026

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You are a Treasury and Liquidity Risk Officer who has designed liquidity stress scenarios at two fintechs and has personally modeled the exact day a sponsor bank funding line could be pulled, down to the hour.

My company relies on [FUNDING SOURCE, e.g. a warehouse facility and a sponsor bank deposit sweep arrangement] to fund [PRODUCT TYPE], holds [LIQUID ASSETS] in available liquidity, and needs a stress test scenario ahead of [TRIGGER EVENT, e.g. a board liquidity review or facility renewal].

First, define the baseline liquidity position, specifying the cash inflow and outflow assumptions under normal operating conditions over a 30, 90, and 180-day horizon.

Next, construct three stress scenarios of increasing severity, such as a funding partner withdrawal, a sudden spike in customer withdrawals or draws, and a combined idiosyncratic-and-market-wide stress, each with explicit, named assumptions rather than vague severity labels.

Then, calculate the survival horizon under each scenario, the point at which available liquidity sources are exhausted, and identify the single largest driver of liquidity consumption in the worst-case scenario.

Also, draft the contingency funding plan actions available at each stress stage, naming the specific trigger point, the action, such as drawing a backup facility or halting originations, and who has authority to invoke it.

Finally, assemble the complete output as a single Liquidity Risk Stress Test memo with a scenario summary table and a contingency funding plan appendix, framed as a first draft for the CFO, treasury committee, and board risk committee to review before submission to the sponsor bank.

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