We offer a tour d'horizon of the data management issues facing macroprudential supervisors. Traditional financial oversight has been very firm-centric, with strong respect for the boundaries of the firm. Even in this firm-oriented context, financial information has been expanding much faster...

This chapter provides an overview of data collection for microprudential supervision in one of the most highly regulated parts of the U.S. financial sector, the banking industry. The process is dominated by a combination of on-site examinations and off-site data collection. We pay particular...