Events

Workshop on Lessons for economic policy from heterogeneity in survey data (call for papers)
Lisbon, Bank of Portugal, organised by the Bank of Portugal, the Centre for International Research on Economic Tendency Surveys (CIRET) and the KOF Swiss Economic Institute of ETH Zürich

10th SDMX Global Conference
Rome, Italy, organised by the SDMX sponsors and hosted by the Bank of Italy.
Further information on SDMX Global Conference 2025.

IFC Satellite Seminar on "Sustainability data issues and central banks' experience" 
co-organised with De Nederlandsche Bank in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
(call for papers)

IFC contributions at the 65th ISI World Statistics Congress, in The Hague, Netherlands, including all six Invited Paper Sessions (IPS):

• IPS 956: Keep Your Data Providers Close, But Your Users Closer
• IPS 959: Sharing and accessing granular administrative data
• IPS 960: Carbon statistics, carbon disclosure and carbon accounting
• IPS 964: New developments in seasonal adjustment
• IPS 966: Data science and innovation: steering Central Banks statistics towards agile governance
• IPS 968: Digitalisation in financial markets and new horizons for data and reporting

13th biennial IFC Conference
BIS Basel, preceded by the IFC Committee (restricted) meeting on 19 August 2026

"Carbon content measurement for products, organizations and aggregates: creating a sound basis for decision making" – an international workshop, Hamburg, Deutsche Bundesbank Regional Office, co-organised by the IMF, the IFC, Eurostat, the Deutsche Bundesbank, the Central Bank of Chile and the University of Oxford (agenda)

Conference on "External statistics after the pandemic: addressing novel analytical challenges" (agenda with presentations), Madrid, Spain, co-organised by the European Central Bank and the Bank of Spain.
The proceedings of the conference were published in the IFC Bulletin no 62 on External statistics in a fragmented and uncertain world. 

9th SDMX Global Conference on "Empowering Data Communities" 
Manama, Bahrain, in collaboration with the Bahrain Information and eGovernment Authority
Further information on programme and SDMX website.

WGSD DGI G20 Workshop on Securities Statistics
Cape Town, South Africa, co-organised with the Reserve Bank of South Africa and the Working Group on Securities Databases (WGSD) (agenda, summary)

IFC contribution at the 64th ISI World Statistics Congress in Ottawa, Canada, including all presentations on eight Invited Paper Sessions (IPS):

• IPS 205 - Sustainable finance statistics
• IPS 224 - Evolving statistics in support of central bank policies
• IPS 239 - Financial innovation and official statistics
• IPS 240 - Central bank statistics re-branding and purpose-driven communication
• IPS 241 - Rethinking data governance in official statistics: the central banks' experience
• IPS 243 - Data science in official statistical production: insights from central banks
• IPS 244 - Commercial real estate indicators: progress and challenges
• IPS 245 - The present and future of access to granular administrative data

IFC Satellite Seminar on "Granular data: new horizons and challenges for central banks" co-organised with the Bank of Canada in Ottawa
agenda, papers and presentations
The proceedings of the conference were published in the IFC Bulletin no 61 on Granular data: new horizons and challenges.