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Asymmetries in Balance of Payments Statistics
Borderline Issues
Current and Capital Transfers
Data Quality
Direct Investment/Reinvested Earnings
External Debt, IIP and International Financial Statistics
Financial Derivatives
Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC)
Implementation of BPM5
Implementation of BPM6
International Reserves
Investment Income/Accrued Income
Trade in Goods and Services
Remittances and Nonpermanent Workers
Portfolio Investment
Regional/Bilateral Issues
Reporting by Multinational Corporations
Reporting Systems and Processing
Repurchase Agreements (Repos)
Summary of Outcomes of Committee’s Discussions
Updating BPM5
Progress reports
Outcome papers and other methodological papers on direct investment
Outcome papers and other methodological papers on other issues on balance of payments
Other issues related to the revision of BPM5
Uses of Balance of Payments and International Investment Position Statistics
Other Issues

Asymmetries in Balance of Payments Statistics

United Kingdom Current Account Asymmetries with the European Union (BOPCOM-05/72)

Borderline Issues

Investment Companies: What are they, and Where Should they be Classified in the International Economic Accounts?—Paper by USA (BOPCOM-03/22)
Borderline Issues Between Direct Investment and Other Types of Investment: Responses to BOPCOM-02/35 Exploring the Borderline Between Direct Investment and Other Types of Investment: The U.S. Treatment (BOPCOM-03/46)
Exploring the Borderline Between Direct Investment and Other Types of Investment: The U.S. Treatment (BOPCOM-02/35)

Current and Capital Transfers

Treatment of Insurance Claims Incurred as Current or Capital Transfers (BOPCOM-04/37)
Treatment of Insurance Claims Incurred as Current or Capital Transfers (BOPCOM-04/37)
Use of DAC Statistics on Grant Disbursements for Balance of Payments Compilation (BOPCOM-00/25)
Use of DAC Statistics in Compiling Balance of Payments Estimates of Transfer Receipts (BOPCOM98/1/4)

Data Quality

Towards a Revisions Policy for India's Balance of Payments (BOPCOM-04/3)
Introductory Note for the Discussion of "Revisions Policy for Official Statistics: A Matter of Governance" (BOPCOM-03/3)
Revisions Policy for Official Statistics: A Matter of Governance (BOPCOM-03/3A)
Application of the Data Quality Assessment Framework to Balance of Payments Statistics of Hong Kong, China (BOPCOM-03/4)
Revisions in Chile's BOP Statistics (BOPCOM-03/5)
Country Case Studies of Revision Policy and Practice—Paper by India (BOPCOM-03/6)
Direction of Review for Revision Policy on BOP, IIP and EDS in Japan (BOPCOM-03/7)
Data Quality: A Comparison of IMF's Data Quality Assessment Framework (DQAF) and Eurostat's Quality Definition: Draft—Paper by IMF and Eurostat (This is an update of a paper that was presented to the Committee at its 2003 meeting.)
Revision Policy and Practice: A First Overview of Country Practices (BOPCOM-02/4)
Revisions in Australia's Balance of Payments (BOP) Statistics (BOPCOM-02/6)
Revisions in the New Zealand Balance of Payments (BOPCOM-02/8)
UK Balance of Payments and Trade Statistics Quality Review (BOPCOM-02/9)
Quality of the BIS International Financial Statistics (BOPCOM-02/76)
European Union and Euro Area Balance of Payments Asymmetries: Reflections on the Work to the Attention of the IMF Committee (BOPCOM-01/5)
The IMF's Work on Data Quality: An Update (BOPCOM-01/6)
Assessing Accuracy and Reliability: A Note Based on Approaches Used in National Accounts and Balance of Payments Statistics (BOPCOM-01/6B)
Data Quality Assessment Framework (BOPCOM-01/7)
A Framework for Assessing the Quality of Balance of Payments Statistics: An Initial Response by the United Kingdom (BOPCOM-01/37)
Quality Report Prepared for the Meeting of the Balance of Payments Working Group (BOPCOM-01/42)
Assessing the Quality of the Euro Area BOP/IIP Statistics (This is an update of a paper that was discussed by the Committee at its 2001 meeting.)
Proposal for Measurement of Stability as a Quality Indicator (This is an update of a paper that was discussed by the Committee at its 2001 meeting.)
The Dimension of Data Quality in the Compilation of Euro Area Balance of Payments (This is an update of a paper that was discussed by the Committee at its 2000 meeting.)

Direct Investment/Reinvested Earnings

Progress Report on the Coordinated Direct Investment Survey: Report by the IMF (BOPCOM-08/06)
Update on Benchmark Definition of Foreign Direct Investment and Work of the OECD Working Group on International Investment Statistics: Report by the OECD (BOPCOM-08/07)
Implementation of the (Extended) Directional Principle: Presentation by the ECB (BOPCOM-08/08)
World Investment Report 2008: Transnational Corporations and the Infrastructure Challenge: Report by UNCTAD (BOPCOM-08/22)
Progress on the Coordinated Direct Investment Survey (CDIS) (BOPCOM-07/03)
Update on the Benchmark Definition of Direct Investment (BD4) (BOPCOM-07/04) and (BOPCOM-07/04(b))
World Investment Report 2007: Report by UNCTAD (BOPCOM-07/05)
Market Valuation of Equity in the International Investment Position: Canada's experience: Paper by Canada (BOPCOM/06-12)
UN Expert Meeting on Capacity Building in the Area of Foreign Direct Investment (BOPCOM-06/09)
World Investment Report 2006: Report by UNCTAD (BOPCOM/06-09A)
Coordinated Direct Investment Survey: Report by the IMF (BOPCOM/06-10)
Distortions in Direct Investment Related to Special Purpose Enties: Report by ECB (BOPCOM/06-11)
Draft OECD Benchmark Definition of Foreign Direct Investment, 4th Edition-Progress Report (BOPCOM/06-21)
Preliminary Proposal to Identify Cross-border Mergers and Acquisitions as a Part of FDI Statistics: Report by OECD (BOPCOM/06-21A)
Issues Related to the Framework of Direct Investment Relationships: Paper by Canada (BOPCOM/06-23)
FDI Statistics-Treatment of Inter-Company Transactions of Financial Intermediaries with Non-Financial Entities: Papers by ECB (BOPCOM/06-24)
A Preliminary Proposal for the Treatment of Pass-through Funds and Capital in Transit in FDI Statistics: Report by OECD (BOPCOM/06-21B)
Direct Investment-Debt Between Affiliated Financial Intermediaries: Paper by IMF (BOPCOM/06-26)
Update on Feasibility Study on Coordinated Direct Investment Survey (BOPCOM-05/3)
2003 Survey of Implementation of Methodological Standards for Direct Investment: Report by the IMF (BOPCOM-05/4)
2003 Survey of Implementation of Methodological Standards for Direct Investment: Report by the OECD (BOPCOM-05/5)
Update on Feasibility Study on Coordinated Direct Investment Survey (BOPCOM-04/4)
2003 Survey of Implementation of Methodological Standards for Direct Investment: Report by the IMF (BOPCOM-04/4A)
2003 Survey of Implementation of Methodological Standards for Direct Investment: Report by the OECD (BOPCOM-04/4B)
Criteria for Identification of Branches (BOPCOM-04/20)
Recent Work by the IMF's Statistics Department in the Area of FDI Statistics (BOPCOM-03/30)
Valuing the Direct Investment Position in U.S. Economic Accounts (BOPCOM-02/29)
The Estimate of Reinvested Earnings (BOPCOM-02/31)
The Practical Implementation of the Directional Principle in Foreign Direct Investment: Some Countries' Experience and the Belgian Case (BOPCOM-02/33)
Treatment of Indirect FDI Relationships (BOPCOM-02/34)
Classification of Financial Derivatives in Direct Investment: Letter Sent to IMF's Balance of Payments Correspondents Promulgating the Final Decision of the Committee (BOPCOM-02/77)
Mandate of the Joint ECB/Commission (Eurostat) Task Force on Foreign Direct Investment (TF-FDI) (This is an update of a paper that was presented to the Committee at its 2002 meeting).
Survey of Implementation of Methodological Standards for Direct Investment (SIMSDI): Progress Report (BOPCOM-01/19B)
Clarification of Foreign Direct Investment Recommendations (BOPCOM-01/20A)
Clarification of the Recommended Treatment of Selected Foreign Direct Investment Transactions (BOPCOM-01/20B)
Transactions with Affiliated Financial Intermediaries (BOPCOM-01/21, excludes appendices and tables)
Foreign Direct Investment and Foreign Affiliates Trade Statistics: Proposal for a Plan of Work and Organisation (BOPCOM-01/39)
A Practical Guide to Foreign Direct Investment Statistics (BOPCOM-01/43)
Working Party on Financial Statistics-Summary Record of the Fifty-Fourth Session held on June 5-7, 2001 Report on the OECD Workshop on Foreign Direct Investment Statistics held on June 5-7, 2001, Paris (This is an update of a paper discussed by the Committee at its 2001 meeting.)
Direct Investment: Report by IMF on Updating the SIMSDI Survey of National Practices and Clarifications of Direct Investment Recommendations (BOPCOM-00/16)
In the Steps of the 1997 Direct Investment Survey—The Need for Clarification of the Recommendations (BOPCOM99/19)
The Joint IMF/OECD Survey of Implementation of Methodological Standards for Direct Investment: Metadatabase on Country Practices (BOPCOM98/1/11)
The Joint IMF/OECD Survey of Implementation of Methodological Standards for Direct Investment: Report to the IMF Committee on Balance of Payments Statistics (BOPCOM98/1/12)
OECD Group of Financial Statisticians: Summary of Discussions on the Survey of Implementation of Methodological Standards of Direct Investment (BOPCOM98/1/24)
Reinvested Earnings - The French Experience (BOPCOM98/1/17)

External Debt, IIP and International Financial Statistics

Update on Developments in the Reporting of International Investment Position Statistics: Paper by the IMF (BOPCOM-08/17)
International Investment Position: World and Regional Tables: Report by the IMF (BOPCOM-08/18)
The Statistical Work on Sovereign Wealth Funds: Report by the IMF (BOPCOM-08/19)
New Developments in the Bank for International Settlements International Financial Statistics: Report by the BIS (BOPCOM-08/21)
Activities of the Inter-Agency Task Force on Finance Statistics: Report by the IMF (BOPCOM-08/27)
Data Needs in the Area of IIP and Balance of Payments Arising from the 2007 Decision on Bilateral Surveillance (BOPCOM-07/23)
International Investment Position Statistics: Progress made and plans for further development (BOPCOM-07/22)
Financial globalization: Implications for data needs (BOPCOM-07/07)
Sovereign wealth funds (BOPCOM-07/06)
Forthcoming statistics on the assets and liabilities of Euro area investment funds including hedge funds (BOPCOM-07/09)
International financial statistcs: Report by the BIS (BOPCOM/07-10)
Activities of the Inter-agency Task Force on Finance Statistics (TFFS) (BOPCOM-07/12)
Reporting external sector data to international agencies (BOPCOM-07/21)
International Investment Position: Introducing Currency Composition and Remaining Maturity into the Standard Components: Paper by the IMF (BOPCOM/06-06)
Report on the Activities of the Inter-Agency Task Force on Finance Statistics (BOPCOM-06/07)
New developments in international financial statistics: Report by the BIS (BOPCOM/06-08)
External Debt and IIP: Developments of Inter-Agency Task Force on Finance Statistics (BOPCOM-05/11)
New Developments in BIS International Financial Statistics (BOPCOM – 05/71)
External Debt and IIP: Developments of Inter-Agency Task Force on Finance Statistics (BOPCOM-04/42)
New Developments in BIS International Financial Statistics (BOPCOM-04/43)
New Developments in BIS International Financial Statistics (BOPCOM-03/39)
Activities of the Inter-Agency Task Force on Finance Statistics, 2003 (BOPCOM-03/42)
Activities of the Inter-Agency Task Force on Finance Statistics (BOPCOM-02/70)
Summary of Discussions at the Workshop on Short-term External Debt, Basel, 16-17 April 2002 (BOPCOM-02/72)
New Developments in BIS International Financial Statistics (This is an update of a paper that was presented to the Committee at its 2002 meeting.)
New developments in BIS International Financial Statistics (BOPCOM-01/24)
Comparison of Creditor and Debtor Data on Short-Term External Debt (BOMCOM-01/25)
Report on Work Program of Inter-Agency Task Force on Finance Statistics and Related Issues (BOPCOM-01/26)
Classification and Valuation of Domestic Loans Sold to Non-residents at a Discount in the Balance of Payments Statistics and International Investment Position (BOPCOM-00/15)
Report on the Work Program of the Inter-Agency Task Force on Finance Statistics and Related Issues (BOPCOM-00/18)
New Developments in BIS Financial Statistics (BOPCOM-00/28)
Improvements to Statistics on External Debt and International Reserves (BOPCOM98/1/9)

Financial Derivatives

Recent U.S. Progress in Collecting Data on Derivatives (BOPCOM-04/9)
Classification of Financial Derivatives in Direct Investment Statistics (This is an update of a paper discussed by the Committee at its 2001 meeting.)
Global Booking: Implications of Financial Derivatives Statistics (BOPCOM99/12)
Collecting Statistics on Financial Derivatives in UK (BOPCOM98/1/14)
Financial Derivatives (BOPCOM98/1/20) + Summary of IMF Committee on Balance of Payments Statistics Responses to the Draft Rewrite of BPM5 on Financial Derivatives (BOPCOM98/1/35)
Financial Derivatives in Australia’s International Accounts (BOPCOM98/1/22)
Financial Derivatives: Framework for Discussion; Full Report on Conceptual Aspects; Full Report on Practical Aspects (BOPCOM98/1/30)

Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC)

HIPC and Exceptional Financing in the Balance of Payments Statistics (BOPCOM-05/10)
HIPC and Exceptional Financing in the Balance of Payments Statistics (BOPCOM-04/41)

Implementation of BPM5

Country Practices in Reporting Balance of Payments and International Investment Position Data to Fund: Report by IMF (BOPCOM-06/05)
Country Practices in Reporting Balance of Payments and International Investment Position Data to the Fund, April 2006
Country Practices in Reporting Balance of Payments and International Investment Position Data to the Fund (BOPCOM-04/44) and attachment)
Country Practices in Reporting Balance of Payments and International Investment Position Data to the Fund (BOPCOM-03/47 and attachment)
Chile's Experience in Implementing BPM5 (BOPCOM-02/54)
Implementation of BPM5 in Compiling Balance of Payments Statistics of Hong Kong, China (BOPCOM-02/55)
Challenges and Staff Training in Implementing BPM5: The Case of GCC (BOPCOM-02/56)
A New Scheme for the Electronic Reporting of BOP Statistics (BOPCOM-02/57)
Country Practices in Reporting Balance of Payments and International Investment Position Data to the Fund (BOPCOM-02/58 and attachment)
Country Practices in Reporting Balance of Payments and International Investment Position Data to the Fund (BOPCOM-01/35 and attachment)
Country Practices in Reporting Balance of Payments Data to the Fund (BOPCOM-00/24)
Canada's Implementation of BPM5 (BOPCOM99/8)
Country Practices in Reporting Balance of Payments Data to the Fund (BOPCOM99/9
Implementing BPM5 and SNA93 in Australia's International Accounts (BOPCOM99/25)
Country Practices in Reporting Balance of Payments Data to the Fund (BOPCOM98/1/7)
Implementing ESA95 and BPM5 in UK (BOPCOM98/1/13)
Implementation of IMF Balance of Payments Manual, 5th Edition, in Singapore’s Balance of Payments (BOPCOM98/1/33)

Implementation of BPM6

BPM6 Implementation Plan, and Plans for Preparing a Compilation Guide: Report by the IMF (BOPCOM-08/10A)
Strategy going forward (BOPCOM-07/14)

International Reserves

Report on Reserve Assets: Report by the IMF (BOPCOM-08/25)
Reserve Assets Technical Expert Group (RESTEG): Summary Report (BOPCOM/07-15)
Reserve Related Liabilities: Presentation in the International Accounts Framework (BOPCOM/06-29)
Reserve Assets Technical Expert Group (RESTEG): Summary Paper by IMF (BOPCOM/06-28)
Data Template on International Reserves and Foreign Currency Liquidity: Planned Regional Seminars to Review Experiences (BOPCOM-04/38)
Data Template on International Reserves and Foreign Currency Liquidity: An Update on the Initiative (BOPCOM-00/19)
Improvements to Statistics on External Debt and International Reserves (BOPCOM98/1/9)

Investment Income/Accrued Income

Summary of outcomes of the Committee e-deliberations on interest on index-linked instruments
Differences in the Treatment in Macroeconomic Statistical Standards of Retained Earnings/Saving of Entities in Various Economic Relationships—Paper by IMF (BOPCOM-03/25)
Dividends and Retained Earnings of Foreign Direct Investors: BoP and SNA Treatment in Canada—Paper by Canada (BOPCOM-03/26)
Analysis of Income in UK BOP (BOPCOM-03/27)
Income of Mutual Funds (BOPCOM-02/41)
Varying Treatments of Income of Collective Investment Schemes in the 1993 System of National Accounts, the Balance of Payments, Fifth Edition, and the European System of Accounts, 1995 (BOPCOM-02/42)
Accrual Accounting of Interest Electronic Discussion Group: Report of the Moderator (BOPCOM-02/44)
Accrual Recording of Interest: Is there a Case for Revising the 1993 SNA? (BOPCOM-02/44-A)
Income from Bonds: The 1993 SNA Approach (BOPCOM-02/45)
Letter to UNSD on Accrued Interest (BOPCOM-02/47)
Mandate of the ECB Task Force on Portfolio Investment Income (This is an update of a paper that was presented to the Committee at its 2002 meeting.)
Calculating the Accrual of Interest on Tradable Debt Securities (BOPCOM-01/11)
Retained Earnings of Mutual Funds (BOPCOM-01/31)
Calculating the Accrual of Interest on Tradable Debt Securities (BOPCOM-00/14)
Accrued Interest in the Euro Area Balance of Payments and International Investment Position (BOPCOM-00/30)
Treatment of Income: Analogy Between Non-financial and Financial Assets (BOPCOM-00/41)
Accrual Recording of Interest—Is There a Case for Revising SNA93? (BOPCOM99/23)
Accrual Recording of Interest Revisited: Why the SNA Must be Revised (BOPCOM99/24)
ESA95 Manual on General Government Deficit and Debt—Recording Interest on an Accrual Basis (BOPCOM99/35)
Accounting for Interest on Debt Securities: Why the Creditor Approach Should be Preferred (BOPCOM99/37)
Accrued Interest on Debt Securities with a Fixed Rate of Interest at the Time of Issue (BOPCOM98/1/8)
Portfolio Investment Recording on an Accrual Basis (BOPCOM98/1/31)
Calculation of Position and Interest on Canadian Bonds Held by Non-Residents (CBOPWP97/03)

Trade in Goods and Services

Impact on BOP Data of Changes in International Standards for Processing and Merchanting: Report by the IMF (BOPCOM-08/11)
Implementing the New Statistical Standards for Goods for Processing and Merchanting in Hong Kong, China: Report by Hong Kong SAR (BOPCOM-08/12)
The Treatment of Goods Sent Abroad for Processing in the Context of the Input-Output Framework: Report by Canada (BOPCOM-08/13)
Impact of BPM6 Implementation Regarding Merchanting and Goods for Processing in Japan: Presentation by Japan (BOPCOM-08/29)
Report on the meeting of the Task Force on Statistics of International Trade in Services: report by OECD (BOPCOM/07-18)
Bilateral trade in services: report by the UK and US (BOPCOM/07-19)
Updating international statistical standards in services: Report by OECD (BOPCOM/06-20)
Summary of outcomes of the Committee deliberations on the travel item (BOPCOM-05/16) and trade in services classification paper (BOPCOM-05/14A)
Revision of the CPC and Relationships to EBOPS (BOPCOM-05/13)
Report of the Twentieth Meeting of the Interagency Task Force on Statistics of International Trade in Services (BOPCOM-05/14)
Balance of Payments Classification of Services: AEG paper (BOPCOM-05/14A)
Linkages between Balance of Payments and Tourism Satellite Account (BOPCOM-05/15)
Travel: Implications of the Technical Sub-group’s Position for the Balance of Payments Statistics (BOPCOM-05/16)
Goods for Processing (BOPCOM-04/27)
International Trade in Services Statistics -Monitoring Progress on Implementation of the Manual and Assessing Data Quality (BOPCOM-04/13)
Classification of Services (BOPCOM-04/29)
Compiling the Travel Expenditure of France's Balance of Payments and the Specific Case of the Internet Users Survey (BOPCOM-03/41)
Collection, Dissemination, and Quality of International Trade in Services Statistics, Monitoring Progress—Paper by OECD (BOPCOM-03/43)
Measuring the Production of Financial Corporations and OECD Task Force on the Measurement of Non-Life Insurance Production in the Context of Catastrophes—Paper by OECD (BOPCOM-03/44)
Inter-Agency Task Force on Statistics of International Trade in Services: Status Report (BOPCOM-03/48)
Global Discrepancies in the Transportation Account (BOPCOM-02/20 Revised)
Overview of the Implementation of Surveys on Tourism in France (BOPCOM-02/22)
Bilateral Comparisons of Travel Transactions (BOPCOM-02/23)
Research on International Experiences in Measuring Visitor Expenditure Associated with Inbound Tourism (BOPCOM-02/38)
FATS: Overview of Work in Progress in France (BOPCOM-02/39)
Inter-Agency Task Force on Statistics of International Trade in Services: Status Report (BOPCOM-02/40)
Insurance Services—International Discrepancies (BOPCOM-02/65)
Insurance—Conceptual Issues (BOPCOM-02/66)
Insurance—Treatment of Catastrophes (BOPCOM-02/67)
Inter-Agency Task Force on Statistics of International Trade in Services: A Status Report (BOPCOM-01/18)
Report of the Chairman of the Technical Group on Travel to the Balance of Payments Working Group (BOPCOM-01/38)
Evolution in France of Data Collection for "Travel" in the Prospect of the Monetary Union Cash Changeover (BOPCOM-01/41)
Statistics of International Trade in Services: A Status Report (BOPCOM-00/17)
Technical Group "Travel" Report (BOPCOM-00/29)
Evaluation of Foreign Trade Transactions in Illegal Drug Trafficking (BOPCOM-00/27)
Differences in the Mirror Statistics in INTRASTAT (BOPCOM-00/36)
A Household Survey for Data Collection on Travel in Germany (BOPCOM-00/38)
Improving Travel in Chile's Balance of Payments (BOPCOM-00/40)
Foreign Affiliates Trade Statistics in the French Economy, 1995-1996 (BOPCOM99/21)
Manual on Statistics of International Trade in Services: Status Report (BOPCOM99/22)
Theoretical and Practical Issues on Recording Transportation Services in the Balance of Payments (BOPCOM99/27)
The Travel Data for Germany after the Introduction of Euro Banknotes in 2002 (BOPCOM99/36)
Shuttle Trade (BOPCOM98/1/3)
Manual on Statistics of International Trade in Services: Status Report (BOPCOM98/1/5)
Concordance between the BPM5 Classification of Services, the Joint OECD/Eurostat Classification of Services, and the Central Product Classification: Status Report (BOPCOM98/1/6)
Implementation of Methodological Standards in the Compilation of Trade in Services in the Balance of Payments Framework (BOPCOM98/1/34)

Remittances and Nonpermanent Workers

Release of Remittances Compilation Guide and Future Plans: Report by the IMF (BOPCOM-08/09A)
September 2008 Draft International Transactions in Remittances: Guide for Compilers and Users: Report by the IMF (BOPCOM-08/09B)
Luxembourg Group: Progress Report by IMF (BOPCOM-07/24)
Summary results of Eurostat ad-hoc Survey on Remittances (BOPCOM-07/24(b))
Luxembourg Group on Remittances: Progress Report (BOPCOM-06/03)
Definition of Remittances: Paper by United Nations (BOPCOM-06/04)
Remittances: Progress on Methodology and Compilation Guide (BOPCOM – 05/08)
Definition of Personal Remittances in the Balance of Payments Context (BOPCOM – 05/9)
Definition of Universe for the Framework on the Movement of Persons (BOPCOM – 05/9A)
Institutional and Total Remittances (BOPCOM-05/9B)
Statistics on Remittances (BOPCOM-04/39)
Working Abroad: the Benefits from Nationals Working in Other Economies (BOPCOM-04/40)
Nonpermanent workers—Paper by IMF (BOPCOM-03/17)
The Concept of Residence with Special Reference to the Treatment of Migrant Workers in the Balance of Payments of South Africa (BOPCOM-03/18)
Non-Permanent Workers—Hong Kong SAR (BOPCOM-03/19)
India's Worker Remittances: A Users' Lament About BOP Compilation (BOPCOM-03/20)

Portfolio Investment

Progress Report of the Working Group of Securities Databases: Report by the IMF (BOPCOM-08/15)
Centralized Securities Database: State of Play: Report by the ECB (BOPCOM-08/16)
Results of the 2006 Coordinated Portfolio Investment Survey: Report by the IMF (BOPCOM-08/24)
Progress report on CPIS (BOPCOM/07-11)
Reconvened Working Group in Securities Databases (BOPCOM/07-25)
Update of ECB Centralized Securities Database (CSDB) (BOPCOM/07-25(b))
International Conference on Coordinated Portfolio Investment Survey: Presentation by the Banco de España (BOPCOM/06-14)
Improving the Methodological Framework for Securities Statistics (BOPCOM/06-25)
2003 and 2004 Coordinated Portfolio Investment Survey results and progress on 2005 survey: Presentation by the IMF (BOPCOM/06-15)
2001-2003 Coordinated Portfolio Investment Survey results: (BOPCOM-05/6)
Centralized Securities Database (BOPCOM-05/7)
2001 and 2002 Coordinated Portfolio Investment Survey results: (BOPCOM-04/5)
Report of the Technical Group on Third Party Holdings (BOPCOM-04/6)
Report of the Technical Group on Reverse Transactions (BOPCOM-04/7)
Central Clearing Houses: Paper by the United Kingdom (BOPCOM-04/8)
Report on the Coordinated Portfolio Investment Survey (BOPCOM-03/11)
Report of the Technical Group on Reverse Transactions (BOPCOM-03/12)
Developments in Market Clearing and Settlements Arrangements: Some Balance Sheet Recognition and Measurement Issues—Paper by UK (BOPCOM-03/13)
Report of the Technical Group on Third Party Holdings (BOPCOM-03/14)
Task Force on Portfolio Investment Income: Supplementary Document 3: Empirical Evidence on Aggregate versus Security-by-Security Recording - Paper by the ECB (This is an update of a paper that was presented to the Committee at its 2003 meeting.)
Task Force on Portfolio Investment Income: Supplementary Document 5: Treatment of Income on Collective Investment Institutions - Paper by the ECB (This is an update of a paper that was presented to the Committee at its 2003 meeting.)
Report on the Coordinated Portfolio Investment Survey (BOPCOM-02/10)
Statistics on Offshore Financial Centers (BOPCOM-02/11)
Report on Third Party Reporting (BOPCOM-02/12)
The European System of Central Banks' Centralised Securitities Database (This is an update of a paper that was presented to the Committee at its 2002 meeting.)
Task Force on Portfolio Investment Collection Systems Final Report (This is an update of the report presented to the Committee at its 2002 meeting.)
Report on the Coordinated Portfolio Investment Survey (BOPCOM-01/10)
Report of the Working Group on Securities Databases (BOPCOM-01/15)
Covering Note for Documents on the Work on the Coordinated Portfolio Investment Survey (BOPCOM-00/7)
Report on the Task Force on the Coordinated Portfolio Investment Survey (BOPCOM-00/8)
Draft Coordinated Portfolio Investment Survey Guide, second edition (BOPCOM-00/9)
Results of the Questionnaire on Securities Databases: Preliminary Draft for Comments (BOPCOM-00/10)
Report on the Working Group on Securities Databases (BOPCOM-0010A)
Report of the Task Force to Consider Issues Relating to the Repeat of the 1997 Coordinated Portfolio Investment Survey (BOPCOM99/4)
Development of a Securities Database (BOPCOM99/32)
ISIN-UIC Securities Databases (BOPCOM98/1/15)
The IMF Coordinated Portfolio Investment Survey: Where do we Stand? (BOPCOM98/1/23)
Portfolio Investment Flows Harmonisation - ISIN Centralised Securities Database (BOPCOM98/1/29)
Foreign Portfolio Investment in Canadian Bonds (CBOPWP/97/01)
Calculation of Position and Interest on Canadian Bonds Held by Non-Residents (CBOPWP97/03)

Regional/Bilateral Issues

Allocation of Merchandise Trade Data to Partner Country: Challenges Facing Canada: Report by Canada (BOPCOM-08/14)
Evolution of the Intra-EU asymmetries in the Current Account (BOPCOM-02/18)
Bilateral Asymmetries Between EU and US: Basic Features (BOPCOM-02/19)
Developments in Balance of Payments and International Investment Position Statistics in the European Context (This is an update of a paper that was discussed by the Committee at its 2001 meeting.)
Recent Work Carried Out by the ESCB Working Group on Balance of Payments and External Reserves Statistics (BOPCOM-00/34)
BoP and IIP Statistics in EMU: Development of an International Investment Position and International Reserves for the Euro Area (BOPCOM99/28)
BoP and IIP Statistics in EMU: Work on BOP Carried Out in the Context of the ESCB BOP Working Group (BOPCOM99/31)
BoP and IIP Statistics in EMU: Monitoring of Implementation - Balance of Payments Statistics (BOPCOM98/1/25)
BoP and IIP Statistics in EMU: Provision of BOP/IIP Data from 1999 Onwards: Summary of Responses to the Questionnaire (BOPCOM98/1/26)
BoP and IIP Statistics in EMU: International Investment Position: Methodological and Practical Issues (BOPCOM98/1/27)
BoP and IIP Statistics in EMU: International Investment Position: Harmonisation Proposals for Step 1 (BOPCOM98/1/28)
Comparison of Bilateral Balance of Payments Between Portugal and Germany (CBOPWP/97/02)

Reporting by Multinational Corporations

Harmonization of Balance of Payments Reporting by Multinationals (BOPCOM-04/45)
Harmonization of Balance of Payments Reporting by Multinationals: Summary of the Meeting held in Frankfurt on September 15, 2004 (BOPCOM-04/45A)
Harmonised Balance of Payments Reporting Rules for Multinationals (BOPCOM-02/21)
Harmonised BOP Reporting for Multinationals-Description of the Project and Conclusions at the Attention of the IMF Committee (BOPCOM-01/28)

Reporting Systems and Processing

The Evolution of the French Reporting System Since the Inception of the EMU (BOPCOM-04/10)
Development of Japan's Internet Reporting System (BOPCOM-04/11)
ABS Business Statistics Reengineering and the Impact on Australia's Balance of Payments and International Investment Position Statistics: Prepared by Mr. Zia Abbasi (BOPCOM-04/12)
Re-engineering the UK National Accounts System (BOPCOM-03/31)

Repurchase Agreements (Repos)

The Macroeconomic Statistical Treatment of Reverse Transactions (BOPCOM-01/16)
Working Group on Repurchase Agreements and Securities Lending (BOPCOM-01/17)
Repo-type Transactions Issue: The French Experience Relating to Stocks (BOPCOM-01/40)
The Macroeconomic Statistical Treatment of Reverse Transactions (BOPCOM-00/13)
Comments on the Macroeconomic Statistical Treatment of Repo-Type Transactions and Securities Lending (BOPCOM-00/33)
The Statistical Treatment of Securities Repurchase Agreements, Securities Lending, Gold Swaps, and Gold Loans (BOPCOM99/10)
Repurchase Agreements, Bond Lending and Other Related Instruments (BOPCOM98/1/32)

Summary of Outcomes of Committee's Discussions

Summary of Outcomes of Committee’s Discussion - 2007
Summary of Outcomes of Committee’s Discussion - 2006
Summary of Outcomes of Committee’s Discussion - 2005

Updating BPM5

Adoption of BPM6: Report by the IMF (BOPCOM-08/03)
Consideration of Comments from Worldwide Consultation on the Draft BPM6 (BOPCOM/07-13)
Overview of the work on the update of BPM5: Report by the IMF (BOPCOM/06-17)
Issues Arising from the Update of Balance of Payments Manual, Fifth Edition: Paper by IMF (BOPCOM/06-37)
Overview of the Work on the update of BPM5 (BOPCOM-05/17)

Progress reports

Progress Report on the 2008 SNA: Report by SNA Update Project Manager (BOPCOM-08/04)
Update on the Revision of the European System of Accounts: Report by Eurostat (BOPCOM-08/05)
The SNA update: Progress report (BOPCOM/07-16)
Summary of outcome of discussions related to the update of the 1993 SNA (BOPCOM/07-17)
Long-term research agenda (BOPCOM/07-08)
Update of the 1993 SNA: Progress Report: Report by ISWGNA (BOPCOM/06-18)
Summary of Outcome of AEG's Discussions: Report by United Nations (BOPCOM/06-19)
Update of the 1993 SNA (BOPCOM-05/18)
Report of discussions of second meeting of the Advisory Expert Group on National Accounts on issues submitted by the IMF Committee on Balance of Payments Statistics (BOPCOM-05/19)
Summary of discussions of the Second Meeting of the Advisory Expert Group on National Accounts Summary of Outcome of AEG’s Discussion (BOPCOM-05/19A)

Outcome papers and other methodological papers on direct investment

Draft Summary Record of the April 2005 Meeting of the OECD’s Workshop on International Investment Statistics (BOPCOM-05/45)
Valuation of Direct Investment Equity: DITEG issue #1A (BOPCOM-05/46)
Purchased Goodwill and Marketing Assets: Australian Bureau of Statistics (BOPCOM-05/47)
Reverse Investment and Directional Principle: DITEG issues #7 and #8 (BOPCOM-05/48)
Permanent Debt: DITEG issue #14 (BOPCOM-05/49)
Indirect Direct Investment Relationships: DITEG issue #3 (BOPCOM-05/50)
Ultimate beneficial owner/Ultimate destination: DITEG issue #12 (BOPCOM-05/51)
A Different Way of Presenting FDI Statistics: Eurostat (BOPCOM-05/52)
SPEs and Holding Companies: BOPTEG issue #9B, DITEG issues #9 (BOPCOM-05/53)
SPEs and nonfinancial DIEs: DITEG issue #11 (BOPCOM-05/53A)
Principles for Classification by Industry: DITEG #27 (BOPCOM-05/54)
Nonresidents SPVs Linked to General Government: Task Force on Harmonization of Public Sector Accounts (BOPCOM-05/55)
Land and Building Owned by Nonresidents: DITEG issue #15 (BOPCOM-05/56)
Maturity and Instrument Split: DITEG issue #16 (BOPCOM-05/57)
Definition of Direct Investment Terms: DITEG issue #20 (BOPCOM-05/58)
Direct Investment Stocks: Financial versus Economic Measurement: DITEG issue #24 (BOPCOM-05/59)
Mutual Funds: DITEG issue #30 (BOPCOM-05/60)
Round Tripping: DITEG issue #13 (BOPCOM-05/61)
Banking: DITEG issue #21 (BOPCOM-05/62)
Intercompany Remittances: DITEG issue #21A (BOPCOM-05/63)
Shipping: DITEG issue #21B (BOPCOM-05/64)
Natural resource exploration and construction: DITEG issue #21C (BOPCOM-05/65)
Direct Investment: Other Capital: DITEG issue #22 (BOPCOM-05/66)
Transactions with Fellow Enterprises: DITEG issue#23 (BOPCOM-05/67)

Outcome papers and other methodological papers on other issues on balance of payments

Goods for processing and merchanting: Paper from Hong Kong SAR (BOPCOM/07-20)
Additional comments from WIIS (BOPCOM/07-13(b))
Various issues for resolution: Paper by IMF (BOPCOM/06-27)
BPM5 Update: Goods for Processing and Merchanting (BOPCOM/06-31)
Some Deliberations on the WTO Position Paper "Treatment of Timeshare in the Tourism Satellite Account and related Macroeconomic Frameworks": Paper by IMF(BOPCOM/06-33)
Financial Instruments and Institutional Sector Classifications: Paper by the IMF (BOPCOM/06-22B)
Results of Electronic Consultation with Committee Members on Various Issues from the Annotated Outline for the Revision of the Balance of Payments Manual, Fifth Edition (BOPCOM-05/17A)
Activation of Guarantees: BOPTEG issue #2 (BOPCOM-05/20)
Granting of guarantees in an updated SNA: Paper from Task Force on Harmonization of Public Sector Accounts (BOPCOM-05/20A)
Goods for Processing: BOPTEG issue #14B (BOPCOM-05/21)
Goods sent abroad for processing (BOPCOM-05/21A)
Merchanting: AEG issue #41: BOPTEG issue #16A (BOPCOM-05/22)
Classification of Financial Instruments: BOPTEG issue #28 (BOPCOM-05/23)
Financial Gold: BOPTEG issue #27, 27A, 27B and 27C (BOPCOM-05/24)
Distinction Between Deposits and Loans in Macroeconomic Statistics: BOPTEG issue #30 (BOPCOM-05/25)
Fee on securities lending and reversible gold transactions: BOPTEG issue #21 (BOPCOM-05/26)
Residence of Households: Ships’ crew and patients (BOPCOM-05/27)
Untraded Securities and Formerly Traded Securities: BOPTEG issue #12 (BOPCOM-05/28)
Treatment of Nonperforming Loans: (BOPCOM-05/29)
Traded loans—Criteria to Become Securities: BOPTEG issue #13 (BOPCOM-05/30)
Debt Instruments Indexed to a Foreign Currency: BOPTEG issue #25 (BOPCOM-05/31)
Interest and Index-linked Debt Instruments: BOPTEG issue #26 (BOPCOM-05/32)
Retained Earnings of Mutual Funds: BOPTEG issue #19 (BOPCOM-05/33)
Retained Earnings of Mutual Funds: Paper by Eurostat and ECB on BOPTEG issue #19 (BOPCOM-05/33A)
Reinvested Earnings: BOPTEG issue #18, DITEG issues #5A and 5B (BOPCOM-05/34)
Migrants’ Transfers (BOPCOM-05/35)
Technical Assistance: BOPTEG issue #22 (BOPCOM-05/36)
The Production of Financial Corporations and Price/Volume Split of Financial Services And Non-Life Insurance Services (BOPCOM-05/37)
Government/Public Sector/Private Sector Delineation Issues (BOPCOM-05/39)
Originals and copies (BOPCOM-05/40)
Databases (BOPCOM-05/41)
Specifying Criteria and Indicators to Split Units under Joint Sovereignty/Jurisdiction and Multiterritory Enterprises (BOPCOM-05/43)
Measurement of the Activities of Multinational Enterprises (BOPCOM-05/43A)
Reverse transactions (BOPCOM-05/44)
Valuation of Real Estate: DITEG issue #25 (BOPCOM-05/68)
Currency Union Technical Expert Group: Summary Paper (BOPCOM-05/69)
Revision of BPM5: Issues on International Reserves (BOPCOM-05/70)
New Developments in BIS International Financial Statistics: Report by BIS (BOPCOM-05/71)
Extending the asset boundary to include research and development: OECD (BOPCOM-05/73)

Other issues related to the revision of BPM5

Unmet Needs of Fund Users for Balance of Payments Statistics: Proposals for the Revision of the Fifth Edition of the Balance of Payments Manual (BOPCOM-05/74)
Trends and Recent Developments in Foreign Direct Investments (BOPCOM-05/75)
Assessment of User Needs Regarding Foreign Direct Investment (BOPCOM-05/76)
Progress Report of the Technical Sub-Group on the Movement of Natural Persons (BOPCOM-04/14)
Background Document on Work of the Technical Sub-Group on Movement of Natural Persons: Statistical Framework for the Measurement of Movement of Natural Persons - A Proposal (BOPCOM-04/14A)
Revision of the CPC and relationships to EBOPS: Report by the United Nations (BOPCOM-04/14B)
Overview of the Work on the Update of BPM5 (BOPCOM-04/15)
Update of the 1993 SNA: Progress Report - July 2004: Report by the ISWGNA (BOPCOM-04/16)
Draft Summary Record of the Meeting of the Workshop on International Investment Statistics (BOPCOM-04/16A)
Comments on the Annotated Outline: Paper by IMF (BOPCOM-04/17)
Comments on the Annotated Outline: Paper by OECD (BOPCOM-04/17A)
Valuation of Loans (BOPCOM-04/19A) and attachment
Criteria for Identification of Branches (BOPCOM-04/20)
Institutional Sector Classification (BOPCOM-04/22)
Reinvested Earnings (BOPCOM-04/25)
Interest on Debt Securities (BOPCOM-04/26)
Re-Exports and Goods in Transit (BOPCOM-04/28)
Classification of Services (BOPCOM-04/29)
Valuation of Direct Investment Equity: DITEG Issue #1A (BOPCOM-04/30)
Valuation of Direct Investment Equity: Branches (BOPCOM-04/30A)
Direct Investment: 10 Percent Threshold (BOPCOM-04/31)
Indirect FDI Relationships and Alternatives to the Fully Consolidated System (BOPCOM-04/32)
Bringing Together all Direct Investment-Related Issues (BOPCOM-04/33)
Currency Union Technical Expert Group: Summary Paper (BOPCOM-04/34)
Plans for Preparation and Finalization of New Manual—Paper by IMF (BOPCOM-03/40)
Revision of the Fifth Edition of the Balance of Payments Manual: List of Topics for Consideration by the Direct Investment Expert Group (DITEG) (BOPCOM-03/40B)
Revision of the Fifth Edition of the Balance of Payments Manual: List of Topics for Consideration by the Balance of Payments Technical Expert Group (BOPTEG) (BOPCOM-03/40C)
Revision of the Fifth Edition of the Balance of Payments Manual: List of Topics for Consideration by the Currency Union Technical Expert Group (CUTEG) (BOPCOM-03/40D)
The Forthcoming Review of International Statistical Standards: Towards Updating BPM5 - Paper by the ECB (This is an update of a paper that was presented to the Committee at its 2003 meeting)
Updating BPM5: Compendium of Issues (BOPCOM-02/25)
Updating BPM5: A Proposed Timetable and Structure (BOPCOM-02/26)
Updating BPM5: Compendium of Issues (BOPCOM-01/32)
Updating BPM5: A Proposal on How to Proceed (BOPCOM-01/33 and attachment)
Towards a Sixth Edition of the Balance of Payments Manual (BOPCOM-00/21)

Uses of Balance of Payments and International Investment Position Statistics

Monetary Presentation of the Euro Area Balance of Payments: Report by the ECB (BOPCOM-08/20)
Data Provision to the IMF for Surveillance Purposes: Paper by the IMF (BOPCOM-08/28)
Policy Applications of Balance of Payments and IIP Statistics—Paper by Uganda (BOPCOM-03/37)
Use of Balance of Payments Statistics in Foreign Exchange Policy Formulation: Russia's Experience (BOPCOM-02/49)
Use of Balance of Payments Statistics: Case of Saudi Arabia (BOPCOM-02/50)
The Use of Balance of Payments Statistics in the Determination of Monetary and Fiscal Policy (BOPCOM-02/51)
Use of International Investment Position Statistics in UK (BOPCOM-02/52)
Foreign Reserve Adequacy: Case of Russia (BOPCOM-02/53)
The International Investment Position: Measurement Aspects and Usefulness for Monetary Policy and Financial Stability Issues (BOPCOM-02/74)
Use of Balance of Payments Statistics in the United Kingdom (BOPCOM-01/36)
Use of Balance of Payments Statistics (This is an update of a paper that was discussed by the Committee at its 2001 meeting.)
Training in the Use of Balance of Payments Statistics - Staff Notes (BOPCOM-00/12)

Other Issues

Activation of Guarantees (BOPCOM-04/18)
Application of Accrual Principles to Debt Arrears (BOPCOM-04/19)
Multiterritory Enterprises (BOPCOM-04/21)
Residence of Households (BOPCOM-04/23)
Special Purpose Entities (SPEs) and Holding Companies (BOPCOM-04/24)
Adoption of Concept of Change of Economic Ownership (BOPCOM-04/36)
Employee Stock Options in Balance of Payments Statistics—Paper by Japan (BOPCOM-03/21)
The Statistical Treatment of Unit Trusts—Paper by South Africa (BOPCOM-03/23)
The Relationship Between International Accounting Standards and International Statistical Standards: Background Information on Work Within the IMF's Statistics Department (BOPCOM-03/32)
Report on Eurostat Activities: Balance of Payments Unit (BOPCOM-03/50)
International Accounting Standards (IAS) and EU-statistics—Paper by Eurostat (BOPCOM-03/51)
Impact of International Accounting Standards on External Statistics - Paper by the ECB (This is an update of a paper that was presented to the Committee at its 2003 meeting)
Security Measures for the BOJ Open Network for Electronic Procedures on the Foreign Exchange and Foreign Trade Law—Paper by Japan (This is an update of a paper that was presented to the Committee at its 2003 meeting.)
Impact of Revisions on the Global Balance of Payments Discrepancies (BOPCOM-02/17)
Residence (BOPCOM-02/59)
Eurostat Activities on International Accounting Standards: Special Focus on Balance of Payments (BOPCOM-02/62)
Appendix II of the Preliminary Draft of the Compilation Guide to Financial Soundness Indicators (the Guide) (BOPCOM-02/63)
Nonperforming Loans (BOPCOM-02/68)
International Standards for Impairment and Provisions and their Implications for Financial Soundness Indicators (FSIs) (BOPCOM-02/68-A)
Employee Stock Options in Balance of Payments Statistics (BOPCOM-02/69)
Measuring Australia's Foreign Currency Exposure (BOPCOM-02/73)
The Legal Structure, Economic Function, and Statistical Treatment of Trusts (BOPCOM-01/12)
Note on the Application of the Residence Concept to Small Economies with International Financial Centers (BOPCOM-01/13)
Mutual Funds and "Fund of Funds": Portfolio Investment or Direct Investment? (BOPCOM-01/22)
Treatment of Allowances for Loans Losses and Non-Performing Loans (BOPCOM-01/23)
New Monetary and Financial Statistics Manual and International Accounting Standards (BOPCOM-01/34)
Estimating Monthly Balance of Payments (BOPCOM-00/26)
Survey on the Use, Compilation and Dissemination of Macroprudential Indicators (MPIs) (BOPCOM-00/37)
The Concept of Monthly Balance of Payments Statistics In Germany (BOPCOM-00/39)
IMF Working Paper WP/01/72 Treatment of Mobile Phone Licenses in the National Accounts (an earlier version of this paper was discussed at the 2000 meeting of the Committee)
Russia from Crisis to Crisis (BOPCOM99/18)
The New Foreign Exchange and Foreign Trade Law and Japan’s Balance of Payments (BOPCOM98/1/21)