The aim of the BIS in implementing a survey on global derivatives markets is to increase market transparency and to facilitate monitoring by central banks of these markets in regard to the macroeconomic and macroprudential concerns through two reporting frameworks, the first being semiannual statistics on derivatives outstanding covering only primary dealers, and the second being triennial statistics on derivatives turnover and outstanding covering a wider range of dealers.
This first release of the Regular Derivatives Market Statistics corresponds to the first, while the April 1995 Central Bank Survey of Derivatives Market Statistics13 and the succeeding April 1998 Derivatives Market Turnover Survey – whose results in Japan are also published at the same time – correspond to the second.