About BIS statistics

The BIS international financial statistics are a unique source of information on various elements of the global financial system. They include data on:

• the cross-border lending and borrowing of internationally active banks in key financial centres, including offshore centres (banking statistics)
• issuing activity in international and domestic securities markets (securities statistics)
• operations in over-the-counter and exchange-traded derivatives markets (derivatives statistics)
• effective exchange rate (EER) indices for 58 economies (effective exchange rates)
• operations in the global foreign exchange markets (foreign exchange statistics)
• external debt positions of individual countries based on BIS banking and securities statistics as well as on data from other international organisations (external debt statistics)
• payment and settlement systems in major financial centres (payment statistics)
• residential property, commercial property and land price indices for 46 economies (property price statistics)

• Long series on credit to private non-financial sectors for 40 economies (statistics on credit to the private sector)

The International Association of Insurance Supervisors, which operates from the BIS, publishes data on the global reinsurance market.