Events

Forthcoming events

2020 

• February / March 2020 (dates TBC), Lisbon, Portugal: Bank of Portugal-ECB-IFC Conference on external statistics

2019

• 16-23 August 2019: IFC Satellite Seminars and IFC sponsored sessions at 62nd ISI 2019 World Statistics Congress (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia) (flyer)

The IFC will organise 2 Satellite Seminars with the Central Bank of Malaysia and the ECB: (call for papers)
 16 August 2019: IFC-BNM-ECB Satellite on "Post-crisis data landscape: micro data for the macro world"
 17 August 2019: IFC-BNM Satellite on "Statistics on Fintech - bringing together demand and supply to measure its impact"

The IFC will sponsor 7 Invited Paper Sessions (IPS), 2 Special Topic Sessions (STS) and 1 Special Invited Session (SIPS):
 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"
 IFC-ISI joint SIPS: "Official statistics: challenges and opportunities in NSOs and central banks"

Past events

2019

• 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)
• 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)

2018

• 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
  • International Workshop on "Big Data for Central Bank Policies" (23-25 July 2018 - programme, web page)
  • International Seminar on "Building Pathways for Policy Making with Big Data" (26 July 2018 - programme, web page)
• 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

2017

• 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"

• 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

• 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

• 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)

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