Z1: New Enhanced Financial Accounts Projects and Updates

Published on February 3, 2016

Two new Enhanced Financial Accounts (EFA) projects are now available online at https://www.federalreserve.gov/apps/fof/efa/enhanced-financial-accounts.htm. The first project provides state-level detail on the funding status of state and local government employee defined benefit (DB) retirement plans, and the second provides additional detail on the loan assets of U.S. depository institutions by reporting mortgage and consumer loan portfolios broken down by the banks' estimates of the probability of default. In addition, data for November 2015 are now available for investment holdings of U.S. money market funds and data for 2015:Q3 are available for Syndicated Loan Portfolios of Financial Institutions.

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