[8 May 2007] Several time series in the ‘Financial Markets – Statistical Review’ of 8 May as well as tables and charts on the Bank of Finland website have been revised on account of adjustments made by reporting agents for various reasons.
The most notable revisions concern volumes of new business on housing loans. The revisions apply to data back to November 2003, with the largest monthly revisions amounting to over EUR 450 million. The impact on interest rates applied to new housing loans is at most 0.05%, ie 5 basis points. The revision of volumes of new monthly drawdowns of housing loans covers data back to the beginning of 2005, with the largest downward revisions amounting to EUR 100 million. The revision has had no impact on interest rates applied to new drawdowns of housing loans. Some smaller revisions were made to a variety of data including overdrafts and credit card loans, new business on consumer credit and other loans to households, new business on corporate credit, and the interest rate fixation on these categories.
[22 Mar 2007] More Euribor rates than before. The interest rate tables now show all Euribor rates (1 week to 12 month) according to both 360 and 365 day rules. In addition, the tables have been made more user-friendly. Now you can select daily, monthly, quarterly or annual data from the pull down menu. The table heading also indicates which aggregation method has been used. To facilitate programmatic use xml files specially designed for this purpose have been added to the section.
[14 Mar 2007] The exchange rate tables have been made more user-friendly. Now you can select daily, monthly, quarterly or annual data from the pull down menu. The table heading also indicates which aggregation method has been used. To facilitate programmatic use xml files specially designed for this purpose have been added to the section.
[28 Feb 2007] Revisions to statistics The Bank of Finland will issue revisions to several Quick data series, depicting loans, deposits and interest rates, on its web pages, today. The revisions are based on information received from several reporting agents. The majority of revisions concern data on new loan agreements, but also, to some extent, on the amounts and interest rates on new drawdowns of housing loans.
The Bank of Finland's Quick data will be issued in its revised form for the three months from November 2006. Same revisions will be issued on 7 March in the Bank's publication Financial Markets – Statistical Review and in the charts and tables published on the Bank's Internet site.
More historic data will be revised as soon as possible but by April, at the latest. Revisions concerning the new housing loan agreements with interest rates will extend to November 2003. The new drawdowns of housing loans and their respective interest rates will be revised from the beginning of 2005.
The Bank aims to release the revised statistics, without delay on the Bank of Finland web site, on the interactive statistics pages and the Bank's Financial Markets – Statistical Review. An announcement regarding publication of the revised statistics will also be made in the News section of the Statistics pages.
[16 Feb 2007] The statistics pages on our website have been renewed. The information is now easier to find as the statistics are grouped by subject in the menu on the left. The information in most of the tables and charts can be delimited and modified to some extent, and the information is now available for a longer period. Also, it's now easy to transfer the data to Excel format. The tables and charts can be used with most browsers but we still recommend the use of Microsoft Internet Explorer. The statistics on our former website can now be found under Publications > Statistical publications.
[27 Dec 2006] Slovenia joins the euro area in 1 January 2007. It becomes the 13th Member State of the euro area, and its currency, the tolar, will be replaced with the euro. For this reason, the Slovenian tolar will no longer be quoted in the exchange rates table on the Bank of Finland's website.
[21 Dec 2005] Nordic central banks decided from the beginning of 2006 to start monitoring cross-border balances of Nordic Monetary Financial Institutions (MFI) as a supplement to the current national MFI reporting. The reporting will not, for the time being, cover Finnish MFIs. The reporting is described in further detail in the enclosed Memorandum of Understanding (pdf), which has been signed by the Nordic central banks, and in the enclosed reporting regulations (pdf) and reporting templates (Excel).