Not least for this reason, statisticians have begun to put additional emphasis not only on the provision of aggregates but also more and more on the provision of granular data that can likewise be used for micro and macro analysis. A case in point is the ESCB’s well established Centralised Securities Database and the new ESCB project of a Securities Holdings Statistics Database.
2  BIS central bankers’ speeches  3.3  Reconciling single entity and consolidated data  If macroprudential analysts are to rely more heavily on statistical micro data, statisticians will have to adopt a two-way approach. They will have to provide data on a single-entity as well as on a consolidated basis. Both approaches are necessary to get the full picture.