Data
Kuwait breaks new ground with regulatory data release
Central Bank of Kuwait releases quarterly ‘financial soundness’ indicators including capital adequacy and regulatory liquidity; few central banks release similar data at such high frequencies
CNB paper questions strength of ‘border effect’
Studies using outdated methodologies overestimate the impact of national borders on trade, authors say; effect is stronger in emerging markets
Haldane wants to turn economic methodology on its head
BoE chief economist turns away from deductive methods and towards mining big data in search of correlations, but former ECB research director warns him to temper his enthusiasm
ECB statistics chief calls for greater co-operation on data reporting
Aurel Schubert says crisis exposed bank's traditional aggregated statistics as ‘insufficient for comprehensive analysis'; new approach needs to avoid double reporting
The ECB's approach to central banking without data borders
Data sharing and access to confidential information – on a need-to-know basis – remain a legal, cultural, technical and organisational challenge at the ECB and elsewhere, writes Aurel Schubert
ECB conference tackles ‘reconciliation’ of statistics as central bank’s powers expand
Senior central bank officials from across Europe discuss the challenge of creating an integrated approach to statistics across monetary policy, financial stability and supervisory functions
The evolving role of the Eurosystem and its national central banks
Anne Le Lorier pinpoints the challenges Eurosystem central banks will have to address in the aftermath of the global financial crisis.
Luxembourg central bank accuses government of withholding statistics
Central Bank of Luxembourg says it will not be able to honour its commitment to publish a ‘thorough analysis’ of public finances this month because it cannot access the data it needs
'Cornered' Argentina introduces new inflation index
New inflation index announced by the government yesterday is a step in the right direction, according to analysts, who nevertheless remain concerned about how data is collected
NY Fed research head calls for data innovation
James McAndrews encourages an audience of central bankers to find novel uses for existing data sets as well as collecting new ones
Crisis showed need for ‘more and better' stats, says IMF
Forum on improving statistics held in Washington in the same week as Myanmar joined the GDDS initiative; Argentina remains in the doghouse over inadequate GDP and inflation data
RBI director says better management of data to help banks with regulatory compliance
Shri Padmanabhan argues uniform reporting standards for data collection would reduce reporting burden, ease validation, and improve overall efficiency of banks
Central bank statistics departments facing multiple strains, says ECB’s Schubert
Meeting new monetary, micro-prudential and macro-prudential data requirements is a major burden for central bank statistics departments, says ECB statistics head Aurel Schubert
BIS paper urges statistics expansion
Research tells policy-makers to take advantage of the ‘sense of urgency’ that follows financial crises to expand the data they collect, including more comprehensive information on banks
AfDB ‘information highway’ seeks to drive data sharing
African Development Bank-led initiative aims to 'revolutionise data management' across continent by the end of July
Malaysia deputy pushes for progress on data
Bank Negara Malaysia’s Muhammad bin Ibrahim says data compilation should become more forward-looking and statistical needs identified more quickly
Bank of Uganda deputy calls for more empirical research in Africa
Louis Kasekende says policy-making in Africa is frequently made more difficult by limited empirical evidence; sets out a number of steps to improve quality of econometric analysis
Constâncio calls for 'co-operation' on data sharing by Eurosystem institutions
Vítor Constâncio says co-operation needed between Eurosystem institutions on data sharing; adequate security measures needed to safeguard interaction
Bank of Estonia to reveal travel statistics gleaned from mobile positioning data
Estonian central bank has been using data from mobile phone usage for more than three years to assist with balance of payments calculation; only two other European central banks operate similar systems
Data: a core challenge for financial regulatory reform
Improving financial stability through the use of interconnected and predictive supervisory tools requires a rethink on data. By Constantin Gurdgiev and Keith Saxton