Glossary
The glossary offers definitions of technical terms commonly used in BIS statistics.Filter by Topics
A
- Actual social contributions from employers and households
- Adjusted change
- Algo
- Algorithmic trading
- All currencies excl. core
- Amount outstanding
- Amounts outstanding / Stocks
- Annual
- Annual growth (BIS calculated)
- Assistance [INSTR_ASSET] under [REF_AREA] stability mechanism - LCD concept
- Audited financial statement
B
- BIS reporting area
- BIS reporting country
- BIS reporting institution
- BIS-spliced
- Back-to-back trades
- Bank
- Banking office
- Banks and securities firms
- Banks and securities firms
- Banks, central banks
- Banks, related offices
- Banks, total
- Banks, unrelated banks
- Below investment grade
- Bilateral netting agreement
- Branch
- Break in stocks
- Break- and exchange rate-adjusted change
- Broad (64 economies)
- 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 total assets
- Central counterparty (CCP)
- 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
- Claim
- Collection period
- Commodities
- Commodity forward
- Commodity option
- Commodity swap
- 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
- Consolidated banking statistics (CBS)
- Consortium and unclassified
- Consortium bank
- Consumer price index (CPI)
- Consumer prices
- Consumer prices statistics
- Consumption of fixed capital (use of fixed assets) [IMF GFSM definition]
- Controlling parent
- Core debt
- Countercyclical capital buffer (CCyB)
- Counterparty
- Counterparty country
- Country
- Credit Derivatives
- Credit commitments
- Credit default swap (CDS)
- Credit default swaps
- Credit default swaps
- Credit derivative
- Credit-to-GDP gaps (actual-trend)
- Credit-to-GDP trend (HP filter)
- Cross-border
- Cross-border claims
- Cross-border position
- Currency
- Currency code used for compilation
- Currency option
- Currency swap
- 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
D
- Daily
- Daily average turnover
- Daily – businessweek
- Data compilation
- Data dissemination agency
- Debt instrument
- Debt securities
- Debt service ratios
- Debt, core and broad
- Deliverable forwards
- Derivative claim
- Derivatives
- Disposable income, gross, adjusted for the net change in pension entitlements
- Dissemination organisation
- Domestic banks
- Domestic claim
- Domestic collateral
- Domestic currency
- Domestic currency (ie currency of bank location country)
- Domestic market
E
- Economically active population
- Effective exchange rates
- 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]
- Entity
- Equity
- Equity forward
- Equity index
- Equity option
- Equity swap
- Euro area non-participating foreign currency
- Euro area participating foreign currency
- Exchange rate
- Expense, excluding consumption of fixed capital
- External position
F
- FX and break adjusted change (BIS calculated)
- FX swaps
- Final consumption expenditure
- Final domestic demand excluding inventories
- Financial asset
- 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 bank
- Foreign branches
- Foreign collateral
- Foreign currencies
- Foreign currency (ie currencies foreign to bank location country)
- Foreign exchange
- Foreign exchange including gold
- Foreign exchange swap
- Foreign issues
- Foreign subsidiaries
- Forward contract
- Forward rate agreement (FRA)
- Forward rate agreements
- Forward rate agreements
- Forward rate agreements and IR swaps
- Forwards and swaps
- Forwards and swaps
- Frequency
- Futures
G
- General government
- General government
- General taxes on goods and services
- Global liquidity
- 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 market value
- 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
H
I
- Immediate counterparty basis
- Immediate issuer
- Imputed - LCD concept
- Index product
- 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 investor
- Institutional investors
- Insurance and financial guaranty firms
- Inter-office
- Interbank
- Interdealer direct
- Interest rate
- Interest rate option
- Interest rate swap
- 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 banking facility (IBF)
- International claims
- International debt security (IDS)
- International institutions
- International markets
- International organisation
- Intragroup
- Investment grade
- Investment income
- Investment income (D4 less D45) (BOP)
- Inward risk transfers
- Irregular component
L
M
- Market output and output for own final use
- Market output, output for own final use and payments for other non-market output
- Master netting agreement
- Merrill Lynch Multi Currency
- Minutely
- Miscellaneous current transfers , other than fines, penalties, and forfeits
- Miscellaneous current transfers and VAT- and GNI-based own resources [deprecated]
- Monetary financial institutions
- Monthly
- Motor vehicles taxes [IMF GFSM definition]
- Multi-bank dealing systems
- Multi-name
- Multi-name CDS
- Multiple Sectors
N
- Narrow (27 economies)
- Nationality
- Negotiable instrument
- 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 market value
- 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)
- Netting agreement
- Nominal
- Nominal value
- Non-PvP
- Non-bank electronic market-makers
- Non-bank financial corporation
- Non-bank financial institutions
- Non-bank private sector
- Non-banks, total
- Non-deliverable forwards
- Non-financial corporation
- Non-financial corporations
- Non-financial corporations
- Non-financial customer
- Non-financial customers
- Non-financial firms
- Non-financial private sector
- Non-financial sectors
- Non-local currency
- Non-profit institution serving households (NPISH)
- Non-rated
- Non-reporters
- Non-reporting bank
- Non-reporting banks
- Non-sovereigns
- Not applicable
- Notional amount outstanding
- Notional amounts - bought
- Notional amounts - sold
- Novation
- Number of dealers
O
- OTC derivatives turnover
- Observation pre-break value
- Observation status
- Official financial institutions
- Official monetary authority
- Official sector
- Official sector financial institutions
- One day
- Open interest
- Operating surplus, mixed and net property income
- Options
- Options bought
- Options sold
- Original maturity
- 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 forward
- 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 office
- 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
P
- Parent bank
- Parent country
- Payment versus payment (PvP = c1 + c2 + c3)
- Portfolio or structured
- Position
- 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
- Private non-financial sector
- 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]
- 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
- Remaining maturity
- Reporting bank
- Reporting country
- Reporting dealer
- Reporting dealers
- Repurchase agreement (repo)
- Residence
- Residential property price index (RPPI)
- Residual (forward rate and IR swaps)
- Retail-driven
- 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
- Special purpose entity (SPE)
- Spot
- Spot transaction
- Stock
- Subsidiary
- Subsidies, other than for own-account capital formation
- 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
- Trustee business
- 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)
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
- Vis-à-vis country
- Voice - direct
- Voice - indirect
- Voice broker