Welcome to the BIRD

New to the BIRD?

Banks must generate a vast amount of data to comply with statistical and supervisory reporting requirements. BIRD – a new initiative of the ESCB’s Statistics Committee – should help them meet this challenging task, increasing the efficiency of their reporting systems and resulting in higher quality banking data. Read more…

PROJECT Status

If you are already aware of the idea, but still miss some information, check the project status and the work-plan 2018-2020. You can subscribe to the alert service to receive our updates.

Join us!

If you are a bank and you want to join the BIRD initiative send us an e-mail BIRD@ecb.europa.eu.

(new)WorkshopS on testing 

In May we hosted a meeting with software vendors/ consultancy companies and banks on BIRD testing activity, the relevant material can be found here. Material on the September 2018 workshop for consultancy  companies can be found here.

About this release (01.03.2019)

The BIRD Release 3.0 is now available.
Please, check our naming convention about BIRD releases.
Note: we have made an error fix since publishing version 3.0. Download the latest database to have the updated information.

 

The BIRD Release 3.0 integrates the following reporting requirements:

–The European Banking Authority Implementing Technical Standards with respect to Resolution Planning data requirements, implementing the BRRD/SRMR framework.
– The European Banking Authority Implementing Technical Standards with respect to FinRep requirements (updated to version 2.8), implementing the CRD IV/CRR framework.
– Regulation (EU) 2016/867 of the European Central Bank on the collection of granular credit and credit risk data for resident credit institutions and resident foreign branches of credit institutions (AnaCredit Regulation)
– Regulation (EU) No 1011/2012, as amended by Regulation (EU) 2016/1384. It concerns the collection of Statistics on Holdings of Securities (SHS).

This release consists of a complete methodology used to describe the various datasets of the different layers (e.g. Input Layer, Output Layer) in the BIRD.

A maintenance activity is foreseen to ensure the perfect integration of all the frameworks, in particular the transformation rules related to SHS regulation.

 

Good to know

– Additional information regarding the Transformation rules describing the operations applied to the Input Layer in order to generate the Output layer(s) may be found in the Framework generation and the Methodology section (specifically Annex II on transformations for information on conventions). Transformations may be traversed from the Output layer to the Input layer as each Transformation scheme’s formal description (VTL syntax) links to the previous Transformation scheme(s) in the form of links for each data sets that is an input for the Transformation scheme.
– Entity relationship model visualization: on the sidebar you find a tab linking you to the BIRD’s Input Layer ERM as well as the dictionary’s underlying Information Model ERM. Both ERMs are interactive in the sense that double clicking on an entity will link you to the entity’s description.
– Dictionary navigator: please feel free to explore the content of the dictionary using our dictionary navigator (in the lower part of the sidebar). It provides different access points to the dictionary’s content. For example, if you’re interested in the BIRD Input layer you may access the dictionary via the Frameworks and select the BIRD framework which will provide you with the framework’s cubes; You may also access the dictionary content by searching for a specific concept via the Variables.
What’s coming next:

– We are working on the visualization of the dictionary content, i.e. Mappings, Member hierarchies and Transformations