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  "title": "Securities Statistics (SS)",
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  "summary": "Securities Statistics Training Program Target Audience Officials in central banks and other agencies responsible for collecting and compiling securities statistics.",
  "publishDate": "2024-09-27",
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      "heading": "Target audience and qualifications",
      "content": "- Target audience: Officials in central banks and other agencies responsible for collecting and compiling securities statistics.\n- Qualifications: Participants are expected to have a degree in economics and statistics and/or equivalent experience.\n- Additional desirable knowledge: Knowledge of basic financial mathematics is an advantage."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Course description and core content",
      "content": "- Familiarizes participants with the methodology recommended by the Handbook on Securities Statistics.\n- Covers:\n  - Definition and features of securities, securitization, and related operations.\n  - Valuation and recording of securities.\n  - Classification schemes and presentation tables for securities.\n  - Security-by-security databases and the framework and technical challenges involved in constructing them.\n- Practical component:\n  - A practical exercise on valuation and recording of different types of debt securities complements the lectures.\n- Relevance:\n  - Interpretation of presentation tables for securities statistics recommended by the G-20 Data Gaps Initiative."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Course objectives (learning outcomes)",
      "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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    "Target audience: Officials in central banks and other agencies responsible for collecting and compiling securities statistics.",
    "Qualifications: Participants are expected to have a degree in economics and statistics and/or equivalent experience.",
    "Additional desirable knowledge: Knowledge of basic financial mathematics is an advantage.",
    "Familiarizes participants with the methodology recommended by the Handbook on Securities Statistics.",
    "Covers:",
    "Practical component:",
    "Relevance:",
    "Identify the concepts underlying securities statistics in terms of sectorization, valuation, and accounting rules.",
    "Describe the framework and technical challenges involved in constructing security-by-security databases.",
    "Calculate nominal and market values for different types of debt securities based on their characteristics and market fluctuations.",
    "Interpret the presentation tables for securities statistics recommended by the G-20 Data Gaps Initiative."
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