C1 and C5: Reporting practices for debt securities statistics

Products Last updated: 28 November 2023 C1 and C5: Reporting practices for debt securities statistics While the BIS debt securities statistics are in principle harmonised with the recommendations in the Handbook on Securities Statistics, in practice small differences across countries remain. [...] The deviations from the target definition are summarised below. [...] Central banks are continuously improving the coverage and quality of the statistics reported to the BIS. [...] This data set benefited from the Data Gaps Initiative in which G20 and non-G20 economies which are members of the Financial Stability Board committed to report debt securities statistics. [...] Country Argentina (AR) Source: Central Bank of Argentina and BIS calculations Exception: Q2 2018 non-financial corporations, all markets: improved coverage; pre-Q2 2018 central bank, domestic market effective value Australia (AU) Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics Austria (AT) Source: European Central Bank Exception: face value pre-Q4 2020 Belgium (BE) Source: European Central Bank Exception:.