Economics & Finance: Banks

A database of the world's banks and financial institutions. Its comprehensive coverage encompasses payment and settlement details, ownership, credit ratings, financials and more. Service has limited licensing/access: Access to Bankers' Almanac

Quarterly and annual data on foreign, international, and cross-border assets and liabilities of BIS reporting banks. Available in EcOS. Open to all IMF staff.

Restricted data reported for the BIS International Banking Statistics (IBS). These statistics cover the balance sheets of internationally active banks. The locational statistics provide information about the geographical and currency composition of banks' assets and liabilities, including intragroup business. The consolidated statistics measure banks' country risk exposures on a worldwide consolidated basis. Service has limited licensing/access: Limited to BIS Nominees in each department.

The CBLD is the most comprehensive central bank law database in the world. It holds central bank laws, other financial sector laws, and excerpts from constitutions of 175 IMF member countries and monetary unions, grouped in 273 categories.

The Financial Access Survey, launched in 2009, is a supply-side dataset on access to and use of financial services aimed at supporting policymakers to measure and monitor financial inclusion and benchmark progress against peers. The FAS is based on administrative data collected by central banks and other financial regulators.

Financial data on banks, insurance firms, corporates and sovereigns, offering up to 3 years of forecast and 30 years of historical data. Open to all IMF staff.

The World Bank’s Global Payment Systems Survey (GPSS) surveys national and regional central banks and monetary authorities on the status of payment systems.

Orbis is a business information platform providing data on over 430 million public and private banks, industrial companies and insurance companies globally. It includes extensive firm-level data on capital stock, investment, value-added, employment, cross-border ownerships, and corporate profits & loss accounts. Open to all IMF staff.

Detailed information on banks and financial institutions in Asia-Pacific, Europe, Latin America, Middle East and Africa, US and Canada. Open to all IMF staff.