  Statistics are the most important means for macrofinancial analysts to meet their information needs.   Micro and macro data should be happily married.   A two-eyed approach is needed: Single entity and consolidated data are equally important.   Enlightening the shadow banking system and the insurance sector requires our special attention.
4  BIS central bankers’ speeches    There is no alternative to good partnership, between statistical institutions and systems.   Politicians should back our work. At the end of the day, there can be no question that macroprudential surveillance is dependent on a solid statistical groundwork.