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Depository corporations’
objectives:
engaged in resource allocation to
make profit and enhance
shareholders’ earnings or value
Sources:
Banking sector, both producer and
user of statistics
National statistics institutes, help
where the banks
Limitations
Timeliness and quality
Addressing limitations and
challenges
International efforts at developing
guides and manual;
Frameworks for data disseminations
Challenges:
Need for efficient payment system
infrastructure to enhance timeliness of
banking sector statistics
The challenge is tougher as countries
move to a monetary union with the need
to conduct a common monetary policy .
Conclusion
Range of statistics require for
banking and financial activities is
daunting
drive policy makers, markets and the
public alike
Economic policy and business
decisions are all driven and
formulated using statistics as
building block
Raw material for policy proposal,
therefore need to be of good quality
and made available in time.