From source to financial context
ACTA DIURNA reporting framework
The context
The country registry covers 193 UN members plus the Holy See and State of Palestine, with Taiwan, Kosovo, Cook Islands, Niue, Western Sahara and Somaliland separately classified. This is a reporting convention rather than a determination of recognition, and it does not imply 201 independent interest-rate decisions.
Shared authorities are recorded once and linked to the economies they cover: the ECB, BCEAO, BEAC and ECCB are examples. Dollarized and euro-using economies need their domestic supervision distinguished from the external monetary issuer. Singapore’s exchange-rate framework illustrates why a fabricated interest-rate target would misrepresent the policy system.
What we track
Definitions and interpretation below describe our coverage. They are not live readings or mechanical buy/sell instructions.
Monetary authority and regime
The issuing institution, currency arrangement and policy framework applicable to each registry entry.
How to read it: This identity layer prevents duplicate global counts and false comparisons. A peg is not evidence that the economy has the anchor country’s same domestic policy rate.
Source & methodology ↗Policy instrument and rate
The exact target, administered rate, range or other instrument used by the authority, with its source definition.
How to read it: A midpoint cannot silently replace a range bound. A statistical series may lag a decision, so retain the official decision separately from the historical backbone.
Source & methodology ↗Announcement and implementation
The date a measure is announced and the date it takes legal or operational effect.
How to read it: Markets may react at announcement while balances change later. A proposal, future-effective decision and implemented operation require different status labels.
Source & methodology ↗Balance-sheet tools
Asset purchases, runoff, refinancing and emergency liquidity, identified by program and instrument.
How to read it: An unchanged rate can accompany a meaningful change elsewhere. Gross operations, net flows and stocks should not be combined as one easing amount.
Source & methodology ↗Reserve and currency measures
Reserve requirements, exchange-rate framework adjustments and verified intervention or capital-control measures.
How to read it: These tools operate through different channels. Official currency-reserve valuation changes do not identify intervention transactions without additional evidence.
Source & methodology ↗Review coverage and calendar
Which authorities were reviewed, which sources were inaccessible and which future meetings are officially scheduled.
How to read it: Complete country registration is different from complete current evidence. An unreviewed authority remains unreviewed rather than being marked as unchanged.
Source & methodology ↗How we cover it
Weekly reporting highlights verified decisions and their relevance to funding, inflation and exchange rates. The country registry retains entries without comparable rates, explaining the reason instead of removing them.
Broader economic, trade and fiscal events can help interpret a decision but remain separate categories. Source-priority is a dated national announcement, supported by comparable BIS series and its instrument metadata.
What the numbers can miss
Cross-country rates embody different inflation, credit, currency and operational conditions. Their numerical ranking is not a ranking of policy quality or investment attractiveness.
Discontinued series cannot be extended as current. Dates, fiscal-policy documents and historical crisis trackers must not be mistaken for a live universal monetary-policy feed.
Sources & editorial context
Registry scope and deduplication rules come directly from the original monetary-policy chat. This guide makes no claim that every authority has been reviewed for the current week.
- BIS — Central bank policy rates
- BIS — Data portal
- Federal Reserve — Monetary policy
- ECB — Official interest rates
- Bank of Japan — Monetary policy
- Bank of England — Monetary policy
Coverage framework informed by the publisher’s Monetary Policies reference discussion. Discussions guide the reporting agenda; factual claims and metrics are checked against the identified source institutions.