RBI Launches 2025-26 FLA Survey for Mutual Funds; Submission Due by July 7

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has launched the 2025-26 round of its annual survey on the Foreign Liabilities and Assets (FLA) of Mutual Funds. The survey aims to collect information on the foreign financial assets and liabilities of mutual funds as of March 31, 2026. The consolidated results of the survey will be used for compiling India’s external sector statistics and will be released in the public domain.

Mutual funds are required to complete the survey schedule and submit it by July 7, 2026. The survey form is available on the RBI website:

Here’s how to fill out the survey:

1. Visit the official website of RBI.

2. Go to “Regulatory Reporting“, then “List of Returns“, then FLA MF and then “Survey Schedule”.

3. On the bottom, click “Forms” and then “Survey“.

4. Lastly, send it through email.

The schedule is available in both English and Hindi, and entities may use either version for reporting.

To simplify the reporting process, RBI is conducting the survey through the Centralized Information Management System (CIMS), which allows online submission of data with built-in validation checks and automatic email acknowledgements. At the same time, the existing Excel-based submission system remains available for this survey round.

Reporting entities will receive survey-related emails from both systems, i.e., [email protected] for the existing SMS-based system and [email protected] for the CIMS portal. Mutual funds are requested to submit their responses through both channels: by emailing the completed Excel form to [email protected] and by submitting the data online through the CIMS portal.

Entities that have not yet registered on the CIMS portal can create login credentials through the self-registration facility and submit their responses online. RBI has also informed that the Excel-based reporting system will be discontinued from the next survey round, making online submission through CIMS the primary reporting method.