Delays to changes to country groupings for International Banking Statistics

This article provides an update regarding the timeline of implementing changes for country grouping conventions used in statistics covering the international business of monetary financial institutions operating in the UK and the consolidated claims of UK headquartered monetary financial institutions.
Published on 21 May 2025

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Due to additional preparatory work required to implement the new country grouping conventions for International Banking Statistics, the Bank will be delaying the go live date for the changes to take effect. We now aim to complete this work later in 2025 and will publish a further article to confirm the introduction of these changes approximately one month prior to launch.

The update to the nationality of reporting institution series in Table C3.1 has also been delayed.  

There have been no alterations to the set of changes proposed, and a thorough description of these is available in the initial announcement.