The experience of recent crisis has confirmed the inadequacy of banking officers' attention toward liquidity risk management. Hence, even before the emergence of this crisis, international regulators commenced designing new guidelines on liquidity risk management. These guidelines ended up in the configuration of new approach in designing liquidity risk guidelines in different countries. Therefore, the liquidity risk management guideline of central bank of islamic republic of Iran, which has been approved exactly once recent crisis realized, encounters several gaps respecting the new approach. This article, evaluating and criticizing the aforementioned guideline respecting new international approach, portrays an appropriate horizon for developing new guideline and implementing proper liquidity risk management in the banking system of Iran.

JEL Classification Codes: G01, G21, G2