Analytical accounts of the banking sector

Coverage:

This is the comprehensive statistical framework for the financial sector. While its composition will differ among countries, the coverage of the banking sector should be as comprehensive as possible. The ideal coverage would include all institutions covered in the central bank and other depository corporations subsectors in the System of National Accounts 1993. The standard prescribes that components should include, at a minimum: money aggregates; domestic credit broken down by general government/rest of the domestic enonomy or general government/nonfinancial public enterprises/private sector or public sector/private sector; and the external position of the banking sector on either a gross or a net basis.

Periodicity: Monthly

Timeliness: One month

Analytical accounts of the central bank

Coverage:

This is a tracking category, providing a more timely indicator of monetary and credit conditions than the analytical accounts of the banking sector. The standard prescribes that components should include: reserve money, base money, or the monetary base; domestic credit, broken down by general government/rest of the domestic economy or general government/nonfinancial public enterprises/private sector or public sector/private sector; and the external position of the central bank on either a gross or a net basis.

Periodicity: Monthly (weekly encouraged)

Timeliness: Two weeks (one week encouraged)

Interest rates

Coverage:

The standard prescribes dissemination of short-term and long-term government securities rates (e.g., three-month Treasury bill rate and ten-year government bond rate) and a policy variable rate (e.g., central bank lending rate). Dissemination of deposit and lending rates is encouraged.

Periodicity: Daily Timeliness: Given that data are widely available from private sources, timeliness is not specified to allow the disseminating agency flexibility to incorporate these data into another (preferably high-frequency) product.

Stock market

Coverage:

In countries where a stock market exists, the standard calls for re-dissemination of a share price index.

Periodicity: Daily

Timeliness:

Given that data are widely available from private sources, timeliness is not specified to allow the re-disseminating agency flexibility to incorporate these data into another (preferably high-frequency) product.

Friday 10 October 2008

Financial Sector - August 2008 - September 2008