Monetary and Financial Statistics - Intermediate

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Target Audience:
- Officials from central banks and/or financial regulatory institutions involved in compilation and analysis of monetary statistics.
Qualifications:
- Participants are expected to have a degree in economics or statistics or equivalent experience.
- Previous completion of the MFS online course is recommended.

Delivered by: Statistics Department
Coverage:
- Conceptual and practical aspects of compiling monetary statistics, focusing on the central bank (CB) and other depository corporations (ODCs), as set out in the 2016 Monetary and Financial Statistics Manual and Compilation Guide (MFSMCG).
- Building blocks of MFS including:
- Concepts of residency and institutional sectors.
- Characteristics and types of financial assets and liabilities.
- Valuation and other accounting principles relevant for the compilation of monetary statistics.
- Defining characteristics of depository corporations (DCs), notably their role as money issuers.
- Consolidation and rearrangement of sectoral balance sheets of DCs to derive analytical presentations and money aggregates.
- Treatment of electronic money and central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) in MFS.
- Introduction to other financial corporations (OFCs).
Practical focus:
- Lectures and exercises focused on compiling monetary statistics for central banks and ODCs using the standardized report forms (SRFs).
- Derivation of analytical surveys from SRFs: central bank survey, ODCs Survey, and DCs Survey.
- Emphasis on peer learning through sharing of country experiences among participants.

Upon completion of the course, participants should be able to:

Understand the conceptual framework underlying MFS compilation, focusing on sectoring, classification of financial assets, valuation, and accounting framework.
Compile monetary statistics (sectoral balance sheets and analytical surveys) for the CB, ODC, and DC sectors.
Understand how the DCs survey and the money and credit aggregates support the analysis of monetary policy.
Understand the treatment of electronic money and central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) in MFS.
Gain a basic understanding of the compilation of monetary statistics for other financial corporations.

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