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  "title": "Debt Securities Statistics (SS)",
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  "summary": "Debt Securities Statistics Training Program Target Audience Officials in central banks and other agencies charged with collecting and compiling securities statistics.",
  "publishDate": "2020-10-24",
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      "heading": "Training program and target audience",
      "content": "- Training Program presented by the IMF Statistics Department.\n- Target Audience: Officials in central banks and other agencies charged with collecting and compiling securities statistics."
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      "heading": "Qualifications",
      "content": "- Participants should have a degree in economics and statistics or equivalent experience.\n- Knowledge of basic financial mathematics is advantageous."
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      "heading": "Course description",
      "content": "- The course familiarizes participants with the methodology recommended by the Handbook on Securities Statistics, a joint undertaking of the IMF, the Bank for International Settlements, and the European Central Bank, published in May 2015.\n- Topics covered:\n  - Definition and features of securities, securitization, and related operation.\n  - Valuation and recording of securities.\n  - Classification schemes and presentation tables for securities.\n  - Security-by-security databases.\n- A practical exercise on valuation and recording of different types of debt securities complements the lectures."
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      "heading": "Course objectives",
      "content": "- Upon completion of the course, participants should be able to:\n  - Identify the concepts underlying securities statistics in terms of sectorization, valuation, and accounting rules.\n  - Describe the framework and technical challenges involved in constructing security-by-security databases.\n  - Calculate nominal and market values for different types of debt securities based on their characteristics and market fluctuations.\n  - Interpret the presentation tables for securities statistics recommended by the G-20 Data Gaps Initiative."
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    "Participants should have a degree in economics and statistics or equivalent experience.",
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