BIS announces that its consolidated banking data will now be released on a quarterly basis. Also, banking data from two new countries, Hong Kong and Portugal, have now been added.
The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) has created this 94-page guide to international banking statistics in order to "provide reporting countries with definitions and guidelines for the reporting of data; secondly, to give a detailed account of current country practices regarding the coverage and disaggregation of the reported data." The Guide itself is broken into three parts. Part I,...