2  What are the implications for the production of statistics? Making better use of (existing) data Traditionally, central banks collect a large number of datasets which are then stored in different business areas.
In the Bundesbank, for example, bank-level data are collected by the Statistics Department and the Banking Supervision Department, information on payments transactions are collected by the Payments System Department, and additional micro-data are available in the Markets Department. These data contain potentially useful information for analytical policy work in different business areas.