Glossary
The glossary offers definitions of technical terms commonly used in BIS statistics.Filter by Topics
A
- Actual social contributions from employers and households
- All currencies excl. core
- Amounts outstanding / Stocks
- Annual
- Annual growth (BIS calculated)
- Assistance [INSTR_ASSET] under [REF_AREA] stability mechanism - LCD concept
- Audited financial statement
- adjusted change
- algo
- algorithmic trading
- amount outstanding
B
- BIS reporting area
- BIS reporting country
- BIS reporting institution
- BIS-spliced
- Back-to-back trades
- Banks and securities firms
- Banks, central banks
- Banks, related offices
- Banks, total
- Banks, unrelated banks
- Below investment grade
- Break in stocks
- bank
- banking office
- banks and securities firms
- bilateral netting agreement
- branch
- break- and exchange rate-adjusted change
- broad debt
C
- CBS-reporting country
- CPMI cashless payments
- CPMI institutions
- CPMI macro
- CPMI participants
- CPMI payment devices
- CPMI systems
- Calendar component
- Capital / equity
- Capital transfers, excluding nonlife insurance capital claims
- Cash payment at inception - LCD concept
- Central Counterparties
- Central bank
- Central bank policy rates
- Central bank policy rates
- Central bank total assets
- Changes in inventories (P52), acquisition less disposals of valuables (P53) and acquisition less disposals of non-financial non-produced assets (NP)
- Changes in inventories and acquisition less disposals of valuables
- Changes in net worth due to other economic flows
- Classifications
- Collection period
- Commodities
- Compensation of employees and other taxes excluding other subsidies on products
- Compensation of employees, excluding for own-account capital formation [IMF GFSM definition]
- Compiling agency
- Compression trades
- Confidentiality - status
- Consortium and unclassified
- Consumer prices
- Consumer prices statistics
- Consumption of fixed capital (use of fixed assets) [IMF GFSM definition]
- Credit Derivatives
- Credit commitments
- Credit default swaps
- Credit default swaps
- Credit-to-GDP gaps (actual-trend)
- Credit-to-GDP trend (HP filter)
- Cross-border
- Cross-border claims
- Currency
- Currency code used for compilation
- Currency swaps
- Currency swaps
- Current grants to/from governments and international organizations
- Current international cooperation, miscellaneous current transfers and VAT and GNI-based EU own resources
- Current taxes on income, wealth, etc. + other taxes on production + property income other than interest + other current transfers excluding current transfers to NPISH
- Current taxes on income, wealth, etc., Other taxes on production, Property income other than interest, Other current transfers and Adjustment for the change in pension entitlements
- Current transfers not elsewhere classified
- Current transfers within general government, current international cooperation and miscellaneous current transfers
- Customer direct
- Customs and other import duties
- central bank
- central counterparty (CCP)
- claim
- commodity forward
- commodity option
- commodity swap
- consolidated banking statistics (CBS)
- consortium bank
- consumer price index (CPI)
- controlling parent
- core debt
- countercyclical capital buffer (CCyB)
- counterparty
- counterparty country
- country
- credit commitment
- credit default swap (CDS)
- credit derivative
- credit-to-GDP gap
- cross-border position
- currency option
- currency swap
D
- Daily
- Daily – businessweek
- Data compilation
- Data dissemination agency
- Data included in another category
- Debt securities
- Debt service ratios
- Deliverable forwards
- Derivatives
- Derogation
- Disposable income, gross, adjusted for the net change in pension entitlements
- Dissemination organisation
- Domestic banks
- Domestic collateral
- Domestic currency
- Domestic currency (ie currency of bank location country)
- Domestic market
- daily average turnover
- debt instrument
- debt security
- debt service ratio (DSR)
- debt, core and broad
- derivative
- derivative claim
- domestic bank
- domestic claim
E
- Economically active population
- Electronic - direct - other
- Electronic - direct - single bank system
- Electronic - indirect - Dark pools
- Electronic - indirect - Disclosed venues
- Electronic - indirect - Reuters EBS
- Electronic - indirect - other
- Electronic - indirect - other ECN
- Electronic Broking System
- Employer social benefits, excluding pension benefits [IMF GFSM definition]
- Employers' actual non-pension contributions
- Employers' actual pension contributions
- Employers' actual social contributions
- Employers' actual social contributions, excluding for own-account capital formation [IMF GFSM definition]
- Employers' imputed non-pension contributions
- Employers' imputed pension contributions
- Employers' imputed social contributions
- Employers' imputed social contributions, excluding for own-account capital formation [IMF GFSM definition]
- Employers' social contributions, excluding for own-account capital formation [IMF GFSM definition]
- Equity
- Equity index
- Estimated value
- Euro area non-participating foreign currency
- Euro area participating foreign currency
- Expense, excluding consumption of fixed capital
- effective exchange rate (EER)
- entity
- equity forward
- equity option
- equity swap
- exchange rate
- external position
F
- FX and break adjusted change (BIS calculated)
- FX swaps
- Final consumption expenditure
- Final domestic demand excluding inventories
- Financial corporations
- Financial firms
- Financial institutions
- Financial net worth adjusted for pension liabilities
- Financial statement or accounting balance sheet
- Fixed interest rate
- Foreign Claims
- Foreign branches
- Foreign collateral
- Foreign currencies
- Foreign currency (ie currencies foreign to bank location country)
- Foreign exchange
- Foreign exchange including gold
- Foreign issues
- Foreign subsidiaries
- Forward rate agreements
- Forward rate agreements
- Forward rate agreements and IR swaps
- Forwards and swaps
- Forwards and swaps
- Frequency
- Futures
- financial asset
- financial corporation
- financial institution
- fixed interest rate
- foreign bank
- foreign claim
- foreign exchange swap
- forward contract
- forward rate agreement (FRA)
G
- General government
- General government
- General taxes on goods and services
- Global liquidity
- Gold
- Grants to/from governments and international organizations
- Gross - gross
- Gross capital formation and acquisitions less disposals of non-produced assets
- Gross disposable income - gross operating surplus and mixed income - compensation of employees - social contribution and social benefits, other than social transfer in kind - current taxes on income, wealth, etc.
- Gross disposable income minus final consumption expenditure
- Gross issues
- Gross national income in market prices [deprecated]
- Gross negative credit exposure
- Gross negative market values
- Gross operating balance
- Gross positive credit exposure
- Gross positive market values
- Growth rate, over reference year
- Guarantee fees receivable
- Guarantees extended
- Guarantor basis
- gross credit exposure
- gross issuance
- gross market value
- guarantees extended
H
I
- Immediate counterparty basis
- Imputed - LCD concept
- Imputed value (CCSA definition)
- Index products
- Index products
- Indirect taxes excluding VAT and indirect taxes on energy
- Individual consumption expenditure of semi-durable and non-durable goods and services
- Institutional investors
- Insurance and financial guaranty firms
- Interdealer direct
- Interest rate
- Interest rate swaps
- Interest rate swaps
- Interest rate, short-term
- Intermediate consumption + Other taxes on production + Current taxes on income, wealth, etc. + Adjustment for the change in pension entitlements
- International claims
- International debt securities (BIS-compiled)
- International institutions
- International markets
- Investment grade
- Investment income
- Investment income (D4 less D45) (BOP)
- Inward risk transfers
- Irregular component
- immediate counterparty basis
- immediate issuer
- index product
- institutional investor
- inter-office
- interbank
- interest rate option
- interest rate swap
- international banking facility (IBF)
- international claim
- international debt security (IDS)
- international organisation
- intragroup
L
M
- Market output and output for own final use
- Market output, output for own final use and payments for other non-market output
- Merrill Lynch Multi Currency
- Methodologies
- Minutely
- Miscellaneous current transfers , other than fines, penalties, and forfeits
- Miscellaneous current transfers and VAT- and GNI-based own resources [deprecated]
- Monthly
- Motor vehicles taxes [IMF GFSM definition]
- Multi-bank dealing systems
- Multi-name
- Multi-name CDS
- Multiple Sectors
- master netting agreement
- monetary financial institutions
- multi-name CDS
N
- Neither seasonally adjusted nor calendar adjusted data
- Net - gross
- Net - net
- Net capital formation and acquisitions less disposals of non-produced assets
- Net issues
- Net lending (+) / net borrowing (-) excluding government assistance to the financial corporations
- Net lending(+) / net borrowing (-) [IMF GFSM definition]
- Net lending/net borrowing excluding interest payable (primary deficit or surplus)
- Net national income in market prices [deprecated]
- Net operating balance
- Net payable amount of two sided turnover subject to netting (after netting)
- Net positions
- Net risk transfers (Inward-Outward)
- No data/unknown
- Nominal
- Non-PvP
- Non-bank electronic market-makers
- Non-bank financial institutions
- Non-bank private sector
- Non-banks, total
- Non-deliverable forwards
- Non-financial corporations
- Non-financial corporations
- Non-financial customers
- Non-financial firms
- Non-financial private sector
- Non-financial sectors
- Non-rated
- Non-reporters
- Non-reporting banks
- Non-sovereigns
- Non-statistical factors
- Normal
- Not applicable
- Notional amounts - bought
- Notional amounts - sold
- Number of dealers
- nationality
- negotiable instrument
- net issuance
- net market value
- net risk transfer
- netting agreement
- nominal effective exchange rate (NEER)
- nominal value
- non-bank
- non-bank financial corporation
- non-bank financial institution
- non-bank private sector
- non-financial corporation
- non-financial customer
- non-financial private sector
- non-financial sector
- non-local currency
- non-profit institution serving households (NPISH)
- non-reporting bank
- notional amount outstanding
- novation
O
- OTC derivatives turnover
- Observation pre-break value
- Observation status
- Official sector
- Official sector financial institutions
- One day
- Operating surplus, mixed and net property income
- Options
- Options bought
- Options sold
- Other
- Other
- Other capital transfers and investment grants
- Other capital transfers and investment grants, excluding nonlife insurance capital claims
- Other current revenue
- Other customers
- Other derivatives
- Other expense [IMF GFSM definition]
- Other financial institutions
- Other financial statement
- Other instruments
- Other interest rate swaps
- Other potential exposures
- Other precious metals
- Other recurrent taxes on property
- Other residual financial institutions
- Other revenue
- Other revenue [IMF GFSM definition]
- Other social contributions
- Other social contributions, employee contributions
- Other taxes [IMF GFSM definition]
- Other taxes on goods and services
- Other taxes on income, profits, and capital gains
- Other taxes on international trade and transactions
- Other taxes on production + Current taxes on income, wealth, etc. + Adjustment for the change in pension entitlements
- Other taxes on use of goods and on permission to use goods or perform activities
- Other taxes, payable by other than business or unidentifiable
- Other taxes, payable solely by business
- Outright forwards
- Outright forwards and FX swaps
- Outstanding - gross credit exposure
- Outstanding - gross market values
- Outstanding - notional amounts
- Outstanding - number of contracts
- Outward risk transfers
- Over 1 day and less than 7 days
- Over 1 month and up to 3 months
- Over 1 year
- Over 1 year and up to 5 years
- Over 1 year and up to and including 2 years
- Over 2 years
- Over 3 months and up to 6 months
- Over 5 years
- Over 6 months
- Over 7 days and up to 1 month
- Over 7 days and up to 1 year
- Overnight indexed swaps
- Own branches and subsidiaries
- Own-account capital formation
- Own-account capital formation, actual employers' social contributions
- Own-account capital formation, compensation of employees
- Own-account capital formation, imputed employers' social contributions
- Own-account capital formation, other taxes on production minus other subsidies on production
- Own-account capital formation, wages and salaries in cash
- Own-account capital formation, wages and salaries in kind
- official financial institutions
- official monetary authority
- official sector
- open interest
- original maturity
- outright forward
- own office
P
- Payment versus payment (PvP = c1 + c2 + c3)
- Portfolio or structured
- Precious metals
- Premiums of nonlife insurance schemes other than standardized guarantees
- Premiums, fees, and claims related to nonlife insurance and standardized guarantee schemes
- Premiums, fees, and current claims
- Primary and secondary income
- Primary current expenditure
- Primary expenditure
- Primary income
- Primary net lending(+) / net borrowing (-) [IMF GFSM definition]
- Prime brokered
- Profits of export or import monopolies
- Property income and other current transfers
- Property income attributed to insurance policy holders and rent
- Property income before FISIM allocation, excluding investment income payable on pension entitlements [IMF GFSM definition]
- Property income from investment income disbursements
- Property income other than interest
- Property income other than interest, excluding investment income payable on pension entitlements [IMF GFSM definition]
- Provisional value
- parent bank
- parent country
- policy rate
- position
- private non-financial sector
- proprietary trading
- proprietary trading firm (PTF)
R
- Real
- Recurrent taxes on immovable property
- Recurrent taxes on net wealth
- Redemptions
- Reference area
- Related Party Trades
- Remaining changes in net worth
- Reporting dealers
- Residual (forward rate and IR swaps)
- Retail-driven
- Revised value
- Revision of scope or coverage
- real effective exchange rate (REER)
- redemption
- remaining maturity
- reporting bank
- reporting country
- reporting dealer
- repurchase agreement (repo)
- residence
- residential property price index (RPPI)
- retail-driven transactions
- risk transfer
S
- SPVs, SPCs or SPEs
- Sales by market establishments
- Sales of goods and services
- Savings, gross plus net capital transfers
- Seasonal and calendar components
- Seasonal component
- Secondary income
- Secondary income: All miscellaneous current transfers
- Secondary income: Other current transfers excluding personal transfers
- Secondary income: current transfers
- Securitised products
- Short-term
- Single bank proprietary platforms
- Single equity
- Single-name
- Single-name CDS
- Social assistance benefits
- Social benefits and social transfers in kind
- Social benefits in cash, excluding other social insurance pension benefits [IMF GFSM definition]
- Social benefits other than social transfers in kind + social transfers in kind, purchased market production + subsidies payable + current taxes on income, wealth, etc. + other taxes on production + property income other than interest + other current transfers
- Social benefits other than social transfers in kind and social transfers in kind - purchased market production
- Social benefits other than social transfers in kind and social transfers in kind - purchased market production + current transfers to NPISHs
- Social benefits, excluding other social insurance pension benefits and social transfers in kind - non-market production [IMF GFSM definition]
- Social contribution and social benefits, other than social transfer in kind
- Social contributions, excluding employment related schemes' pension contribution [IMF GFSM definition]
- Social security benefits
- Social security contributions
- Social security contributions, employee contributions
- Social security contributions, employer contributions
- Social security contributions, self-employed or nonemployed contributions
- Social transfers, other than social transfers in kind minus net social contributions
- Sovereigns
- Spot
- Subsidies, other than for own-account capital formation
- single-name CDS
- special purpose entity (SPE)
- spot transaction
- stock
- subsidiary
- swap
T
- Taxes on goods and services
- Taxes on income, payable by corporations and other enterprises
- Taxes on income, payable by individuals
- Taxes on individual or household income including holding gains
- Taxes on international trade and transactions
- Taxes on production and imports, other than for own-account capital formation
- Taxes on property
- Taxes on specific services
- Taxes on the income or profits of corporations including holding gains
- Taxes on use of goods and on permission to use goods and perform activities
- Technical residual (Credit default swaps)
- Technical residual (Forwards and swaps)
- Technical residual (Interest rate swaps)
- Technical residual (Multi-name)
- Technical residual (options)
- Technical residual (out. forwards/FX swaps)
- Technical residual (outright forwards)
- Technical residual (total)
- Technical residual (total)
- Term of trade
- Time format
- Time of recording and other differences in DDA analysis (ECB concept)
- Title
- Total (all counterparties)
- Total (all instruments)
- Total (all maturities)
- Total (all methods)
- Total (all ratings)
- Total (all risk categories)
- Total (all sectors)
- Total assets (financial and non-financial)
- Total capital expenditure
- Total claims
- Total current expenditure
- Total current revenue
- Total demand
- Total exchange taxes
- Total excises
- Total expenditure other than Compensation of employees, Social benefits and social transfers in kind for products supplied to HH via market producers, Intermediate consumption and Gross fixed capital formation
- Total expense
- Total final domestic demand
- Total government expenditure [IMF GFSM definition]
- Total government expenditure excluding: interest, calls on guarantees, capital injections recorded as capital transfers
- Total government expenditure excluding: interest, calls on guarantees, capital injections recorded as capital transfers, capital transfers recorded in the context of asset purchases
- Total government revenue [IMF GFSM definition]
- Total rate (PIM)
- Total sales taxes
- Total taxes on exports
- Total turnover
- Transfers not elsewhere classified
- Turnover - notional amounts
- Turnover - notional amounts (daily average)
- Turnover - number of contracts
- Turnover - number of contracts (daily average)
- Turnover to be settled with a single payment (ie non-deliverable)
- Turnover to be settled with four payments (ie swaps)
- Turnover to be settled with two payments (ie spot and forwards)
- Two sided turnover subject to netting (before netting)
- total assets
- trustee business
U
V
- Value Added Tax and GNI - based EU own resources
- Value added excluding FISIM
- Via "same clearer" or "on-us" accounts with exposure to settlement risk
- Via "same clearer" or "on-us" accounts without exposure to settlement risk
- Via CLS
- Via other PvP or equivalent settlement methods
- Voice - direct
- Voice - indirect
- Voice broker
- vis-à-vis country