Irving Fisher Committee on Central Bank Statistics events - previous years
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| 19-20 Sep 2022 | Banco de Portugal-IFC Conference on "Communication on central bank statistics: unlocking the next level" Lisbon, Portugal, co-organised with the Banco de Portugal Agenda, IFC Report no 15 on "How central banks communicate on official statistics" |
| 25-26 Aug 2022 | 11th Biennial IFC Conference on Post-pandemic landscape for central bank statistics (Programme, Presentations Young Statistician Award) The proceedings of the conference were published in the IFC Bulletin no 58 on Post-pandemic landscape for central bank statistics |
| 14-17 Feb 2022 | IFC workshop on "Data science in central banking" - Part 2: Data Science in Central Banking: Applications and tools BIS Basel, virtual event Programme, presentations and videos |
| 12 Jan 2022 |
Launch of the online course on macroeconomic financial accounts sponsored by the BIS/IFC, the ECB and the Bank of Italy and developed by the OECD/Sapienza University of Rome with the US-based massive open online course (MOOC) provider, Coursera. |
| 19-22 Oct 2021 | IFC workshop on "Data science in central banking" - Part 1: Data Science in Central Banking: Machine learning applications Bank of Italy, virtual event The proceedings of the workshop were published in the IFC Bulletin no 57 on Machine learning in central banking. |
| 27 Sep-1 Oct 2021 |
8th SDMX Global Conference |
| 14-15 Sep 2021 |
International Conference on "Statistics for Sustainable Finance" |
| 11-15 Jul 2021 |
IFC contribution at the 63rd ISI World Statistics Congress - Cooperation issues between NSOs and Central Banks |
| 9 Jul 2021 | Seminar on "Sustainable finance: data availability and policy needs" co-organised with the Netherlands Bank Programme |
- CANCELLED: 10th IFC Conference, BIS Basel (August 2020)
- 17-18 February 2020, Lisbon, Portugal: Conference on external statistics "Bridging measurement challenges and analytical needs of external statistics: evolution or revolution?", co-organised with the Bank of Portugal and the European Central Bank (programme); the proceedings of the conference were published in the IFC Bulletin No 52.
- 22 November 2019: IFC High Level Meeting on Data Governance, co-organised with the ISI - International Statistical Institute (Tunisia) (event concept note, programme, event webpage). The proceedings of the meeting were published in the IFC Bulletin No 54.
- 16 August 2019: IFC-BNM-ECB Satellite on "Post-crisis data landscape: micro data for the macro world" (agenda); the proceedings of the satellite seminar were published in the IFC Bulletin No 53.
- 17 August 2019: IFC-BNM Satellite on "Statistics on Fintech - bringing together demand and supply to measure its impact" (agenda)
IFC contribution: The IFC-sponsored 7 Invited Paper Sessions (IPS), 2 Special Topic Sessions (STS), 1 Special Invited Session (SIPS) and 1 Lunch Time Discussion Group (LTDG):
- IPS-173 "Consistent measurement of multinational enterprise (MNE) activities in Economic Statistics"
- IPS-176 "Statistical challenges in the monitoring of commercial property markets"
- IPS-177 "Benefitting from data sharing between institutions"
- IPS-178 "For better statistics; Good communication between users and compilers"
- IPS-179 "Communicating central banks' statistics effectively in the digital age"
- IPS-184 "Analytical use and applications of financial accounts and macroeconomic balance sheets"
- IPS-188 "Short Term Surveys, Big Data and Inflation"
- STS-441 "Generating new insights by using and linking micro data sets"
- STS-442 "Creating comprehensive data worlds through formal standardisation and semantic harmonization"
- IPS 2339 IFC-ISI joint SIPS: "Official statistics: challenges and opportunities in NSOs and central banks" followed by IFC LTDG: "Challenges for official statistics"
- 18-20 March 2019, Istanbul, Turkey: Workshop on the use of financial accounts, co-organised with the Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey (programme); the proceedings of the workshop were published in the IFC Bulletin No 51
- 15 January 2019, Rome, Italy: Bank of Italy-BIS Workshop on "Computing Platforms for Big Data and Machine Learning", co-organised with the Bank of Italy (programme)
- 30-31 August 2018: Ninth IFC Conference on "Are post-crisis statistical initiatives completed?" at the BIS; the proceedings of the conference were published in the IFC Bulletin No 49.
- 23-26 July 2018, Bali, Indonesia: Workshop and seminar on "Big Data", co-organised with the Bank Indonesia; the proceedings were published in the IFC Bulletin No 50.
- 11-12 June 2018: IFC workshop on "External sector statistics", co-organised with the Central Bank of Armenia (programme); the proceedings of the workshop were published in the IFC Bulletin No 48
- 14-21 July 2017, Marrakech, Morocco: IFC's contribution to the 61st World Statistics Congress - ISI2017.
- IPS021 "Enhancing statistical cooperation between national central banks and statistical offices"
- IPS022 "Statistical challenges for African central banks"
- IPS023 "Sentiment surveys for economic policy analysis: evolving uses and methods"
- IPS024 "Official statistics in the age of big data"
- IPS025 "Dimensions of data sharing"
- IPS026 "Role of statistics for evidence-based decision making"
- STS001"Addressing the challenges posed by external statistics"
- STS003 "New prospects for the compilation of sectoral financial accounts"
- STS090 "The use of leading indicators to anticipate economic activity"
- LRTD019 "The importance of financial literacy and inclusion for the conduct of central bank policies"
- IFC-ISI Lunch time event "Central Banks and Statistical Offices - Partnership in sharing data for good statistics"
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14 July 2017: Bank Al-Maghrib-CEMLA-IFC Satellite Seminar on Financial Inclusion (website, programme); the proceedings of the seminar were published in the IFC Bulletin No 47
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18-19 May 2017: IFC-NBB Workshop on "Data needs and statistics compilation for macroprudential analysis", co-organised with the National Bank of Belgium in Brussels - programme; the proceedings of the workshop were published in the IFC Bulletin No 46
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20-24 March 2017, Bali, Indonesia:
- Regional Seminar for Asian Countries on "Recent Developments in Central Bank Statistics", co-organised by BIS, Bank Indonesia and the ECB (20-21 March - programme)
- IFC Satellite Seminar on Big Data (21 March - programme); the proceedings of the seminar were published in the IFC Bulletin No 44
- IFC's contribution to the Regional Statistics Conference - ISI RSC 2017 (21-24 March) of the International Statistical Institute (ISI): The IFC sponsored 4 Invited Paper Sessions (IPS):
IPS-06 "Financial Inclusion" (22 March)
IPS-09 "Sectoral Financial Accounts for Monetary Policy Making" (22 March)
IPS-13 "Payment System Data and leading indicators" (23 March)
IPS-23 "Enhancement in Monetary and Financial Statistics in the post Great Financial Crisis" (23 March)
- 26 September 2016: IFC-ECCBSO-CBRT Conference on the Uses of Central Balance Sheet Data Offices' information (Izmir, Turkey) - programme. The proceedings of the workshop were published in the IFC Bulletin No 45.
- 8-9 September 2016: Eighth IFC Conference at the BIS in Basel - programme. The proceedings of the conference were published in the IFC Bulletin No 43. Teh Tian Huey and Daniel Chin Shen Li (Central Bank of Malaysia) received the IFC award for the best paper presented by a young statistician "Measuring bank risk-taking behaviour: The risk-taking channel of Monetary Policy in Malaysia". (photo)
- 20-21 January 2016: Regional Workshop on "Developing and Improving Sectoral Financial Accounts" at Bank of Algeria in Algiers: programme
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14-15 December 2015: IFC Workshop on "Combining micro and macro statistical data for financial stability analysis", co-organised with the Central Bank of Poland in Warsaw: programme. The proceedings of the workshop were published in the IFC Bulletin No 41.
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24 July 2015: IFC Satellite meeting in cooperation with the Central Bank of Brazil and the Centre for Latin American Monetary Studies (CEMLA) on "Assessing international capital flows after the crisis", in Rio de Janeiro: programme (photo). The proceedings of the meeting were published in the IFC Bulletin No 42.
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26-31 July 2015: IFC's contribution to the 60th World Statistics Congress - ISI2015 of the International Statistical Institute (ISI), in Rio de Janeiro. The IFC will sponsor 3 Invited Paper Sessions (IPS) and 2 Special Topic Sessions (STS):
- IPS 089 "Central Bank Sources and Uses of Derivative Statistics"
- IPS 090 "Improving government debt statistics"
- IPS 091 "The use of surveys by central banks"
- STS 008 "Developing and Improving Sectoral Accounts"
- STS 010 "Micro data for multipurpose data provision"
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IFC Satellite seminar at the ISI Asian Regional Statistics Conference in Kuala Lumpur on 15 November 2014. Seminar title: "Is the household sector in Asia overleveraged: what do the data say?": programme. The proceedings of the satellite seminar were published in the IFC Bulletin No 40.
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IFC-sponsored sessions at the ISI Regional Statistics Conference 2014 (Overview) in Kuala Lumpur between 16-19 November 2014. Conference theme: "Statistical Science for a Better Tomorrow".
- The Seventh IFC Conference on "Indicators to support monetary and financial stability analysis: data sources and statistical methodologies" at the BIS in Basel on 4 and 5 September 2014: Conference agenda. The proceedings of the conference were published in the IFC Bulletin No 39 (e-publication only).
- Opening remarks by Hervé Hannoun.
- On this occasion Zlatina Balabanova (European Central Bank) and Ruben Peter van der Helm (Netherlands Bank) received the IFC award for the best paper presented by a young statistician for their study on "Enhancing Euro Area Capital Stock Estimates". (photo)
- Regional Workshops on Developing and Improving Sectoral Financial Accounts:
- IFC Seminar on "Measuring structural change in the financial system after the crisis" at the People's Bank of China, Shenzhen, People's Republic of China, on 23 August 2013.
- IFC's contribution to 59th World Statistics Congress of the International Statistical Institute (ISI), in Hong Kong on 25-30 August 2013. The IFC sponsored 6 Special Topic Sessions at the Congress: STS057 "Methodological and compilation review on bank interest rates statistics"; STS079 "Measuring real effective exchange rates"; STS080 "The use of microeconomic data in compiling macroeconomic statistics"; STS081 "Measuring domestic and international inflation"; STS082 "Reviewing measures of external debt" and STS083 "Improving measures of capital flows including speculative flows".
- IFC Workshop on "Integrated management of micro-databases adding business intelligence to central banks' statistical systems" at the Bank of Portugal, Porto, on 20-21 June 2013. The proceedings of the workshop were published in the IFC Bulletin No 37 (e-publication only).
- IFC Workshop on Balance of Payments Statistics at the Banque de France, Paris on 28 February - 1 March 2013: Programme, summary of the workshop: Paris Statement. The proceedings of the workshop were published in the IFC Working Paper No 12.
- The IFC Sasana workshop on Financial inclusion indicators at the Central Bank of Malaysia in Kuala Lumpur on 5 and 6 November 2012. The proceedings of the workshop were published in the IFC Bulletin No 38 (e-publication only).
- The Sixth IFC Conference on "Statistical Issues and Activities in a Changing Environment" at the BIS in Basel on 28 and 29 August 2012. Conference agenda. The proceedings of the conference were published in the IFC Bulletin No 36 (e-publication only).
- The IFC's contribution to the 58th World Statistics Congress of the International Statistical Institute (ISI) in Dublin in 21-26 August 2011.
The IFC sponsored 4 Invited Paper Sessions and 4 Special Topic Sessions at the Congress. The Central Bank of Ireland also hosted a seminar for IFC members prior to the official start of the Congress on 19 August 2011. The topic of the seminar was "Bridging Data Gaps ... the Way Forward". - Workshop on "Residency/local and nationality/global views of financial positions" in Basel, 18-19 January 2011, organised in cooperation with the Inter-Agency Group on Economic and Financial Statistics. Participation was by invitation only. A summary of the discussion paper and other background documents were published in the IFC Working Paper Number 8.
- Workshop on "CPI measures: policy issues and concerns" with the Centro de Estudios Monetarios Latinoamericanos (CEMLA) and the Central Reserve Bank of Peru, Lima, 29 November - 1 December 2010.
- Workshop on "Data requirements for monitoring derivative transactions", with the People's Bank of China (PBC) in Zhengzhou, China, 27-29 September 2010. Participation was by invitation only. The papers presented at this workshop were published in the IFC Bulletin No 35.
- The Fifth IFC Conference on "Initiatives to address data gaps revealed by the financial crisis", in Basel, 25-26 August 2010.
Conference agenda and individual papers. The proceedings of the conference were published in the IFC Bulletin No 34. - A training event for young statisticians was organised by the European Central Bank, the day prior to the conference, on the topic of "European System of Central Banks' Statistics - new challenges, 2010-2015". 30 young statisticians attended this event.
- Training event for IFC members on National Accounts methodology, 7-11 June 2010
The National Bank of Belgium (NBB), one of the founding members of the IFC, organised this training event for IFC members. It built on its expertise in compiling the national accounts for Belgium, but also drew on support of other IFC member institutions. - Regional workshop on "The use of business surveys by central banks", Kiev, 12-14 May 2010
The workshop was organised in cooperation with the National Bank of Ukraine, the IMF and the Bank of Canada. - Regional seminar on "Inflation measurement: policy issues and concerns", 28-30 March 2010
The seminar took place in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia with the central banks and national statistical institutes of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC).
- Conference on "Methodological issues related to residential property price indices"
The conference was organised in cooperation with Eurostat and the IAOS in Basel on 11-12 November 2009. The purpose of the conference was to identify the key issues that need to be addressed from the perspective of both users and compilers of such statistics. - Regional workshop on "CPI measurement: central bank perspectives"
This workshop was organised for Asian central banks associated with the South East Asian Central Banks Research and Training (SEACEN) Centre, in the Philippines from 12-16 October 2009. - Contribution to 57th Session of the ISI, Durban, 16-22 August 2009
The IFC organised 10 meetings at the 57th Session of the ISI, some of which were co-sponsored with other ISI sections. The papers presented during these meetings were published in the 33rd issue of the IFC Bulletin. - Seminar on "Economic and financial convergence en route to regional economic integration", 14 August 2009, Durban, South Africa
The IFC and the South African Reserve Bank (SARB) organised this seminar with central banks from the Southern African Development Community (SADC). Papers presented at the seminar were published in the 32nd issue of the IFC Bulletin.
- Fourth IFC Conference on "Measuring financial innovation and its impact", Basel, 26-27 August 2008
Policy makers and analysts are struggling to keep up with financial innovations and to gauge their potential impact on the economy. Central bankers, in particular, face major challenges to measure the potential impact of financial innovation on monetary and financial stability. With respect to the latter, one major concern is the development of proper measures of financial risk, both at the micro level of individual financial instruments or financial institutions as well as at the macro level of the financial system as a whole.The papers presented at this conference were published in the 31st issue of the IFC Bulletin. - Workshop on "The use of surveys by central banks", Vienna, 18-20 March 2008
This workshop was organised in cooperation with the Austrian National Bank and took place at the Joint Vienna Institute. Participation was by invitation only. The results of this workshop, as well as the results of the June and December 2007 workshops on the same topic, were published in the 30th issue of the IFC Bulletin. - Workshop on "Challenges to improve global comparison of securities statistics", Washington D.C., 4-5 March 2008
This workshop took place at the International Monetary Fund in Washington DC. Participation was open to IFC institutional members and selected experts from other central banks, statistical agencies and private sector organisations. The proceedings of this workshop were published in the 29th issue of the IFC Bulletin.
- Workshop on "The use of surveys by central banks", Buenos Aires, 11-13 December 2007
The IFC organised this workshop in cooperation with CEMLA (Centre for Latin American Monetary Studies). It was hosted by the Central Bank of the Republic of Argentina. Participation was by invitation only. The results of this workshop, as well as the results of the June 2007 and March 2008 workshops on the same topic, were published in the 30th issue of the IFC Bulletin. - Contribution to 56th Session of the ISI, Lisbon, 22-29 August 2007
The IFC organised 10 meetings at the 56th Session of the ISI, some of which were co-sponsored with other ISI sections. The papers presented during these meetings were published in the 28th issue of the IFC Bulletin. - Workshop on "The use of surveys by central banks", Pune, 27 and 29 June 2007
The IFC organised this workshop in cooperation with SEACEN (the South East Asian Central Banks Research and Training Centre). It was hosted by the Reserve Bank of India. The results of this workshop, as well as the results of the December 2007 and March 2008 workshops on the same topic, were published in the 30th issue of the IFC Bulletin.
- Contribution to IAOS Conference, Ottawa, 6-8 September 2006
The IFC contributed to a conference entitled "People on the Move", organised by the International Association of Official Statistics (IAOS). The IAOS had invited the IFC to organise a plenary session on the topic "Financial Aspects of Migration: The Measurement of Remittances". Mr Cadete de Matos, member of the IFC Executive and Director of the Statistics Department at the Bank of Portugal, structured and chaired the session. The papers presented during the session were published in the 27th issue of the IFC Bulletin. - Third IFC Conference on "Measuring the Financial Position of the Household Sector", Basel, 30-31 August 2006
The Third IFC Conference took place the BIS. The theme of the conference was "Measuring the Financial Position of the Household Sector". The importance of this topic in central banking circles was reflected in the overwhelming interest shown in the conference. More than 130 experts from 68 central banks participated in the conference and 42 papers were presented. The themes that were covered included: measurement issues related to household wealth and debt, distributional aspects of household finances and the use of household surveys to gather information on household finances. The results of the conference were published in the 25th and 26th issue of the IFC Bulletin. - Workshop on "CPI Measures: Central Bank views and concerns", Basel, 20-21 April 2006
The IFC hosted a very successful workshop entitled "CPI Measures: Central Bank views and concerns". 37 CPI experts from 26 central banks and the IMF attended the workshop which took place at the BIS. Discussions took place on a number of issues, including international methodological standards for CPI, inflation measures from the perspective of monetary policy and quantifying the measurement bias in CPIs. Issue notes and summaries of the discussions as well as comparative tables were published in the 24th issue of the IFC Bulletin. As a result of the workshop, suggestions for future work were submitted to international groups dealing with international CPI methodology.