BIS Review 97/2010  5  To define “historical regularities” in the monetary data we now rely on a comprehensive set of state-of-the-art tools, exploring a wider set of variables, including financial spreads and yields and providing a richer representation of MFI balance sheets.
Foreign exchange brokers are to report only foreign exchange transactions (including cross-currency swaps and FX options), and securities companies are to report only derivatives activities.