What data actually exists about this industry, who typically holds it, at what granularity, and how obtainable it is. Public means openly published; purchasable is sold by a vendor; partnership needs a bilateral deal; exclusive is effectively locked up by one party.
| Data category | Who holds it | Granularity | Access |
|---|---|---|---|
| pricing | Central banks (policy rates, reference FX rates, benchmark rates such as €STR/SOFR/SONIA, auction and open-market operation results)… | Per operation/auction, daily reference fixings, per-tenor yield curves | public |
| geospatial/movement | Central banks and payment overseers holding cash access/ATM and branch network location data (e.g. FCA/Bank of England cash access mapping… | Per ATM/branch coordinates, per postcode coverage indicators, annual/quarterly | public |
| registry/licensing/permits | Central banks acting as supervisors/licensing authorities (ECB SSM list of supervised entities, national bank registers, payment… | Per licensed institution, with status and authorisation dates; updated monthly | public |
| employment & workforce | Central banks' own HR and annual reports; ECB/BIS comparative staffing statistics | Headcount and staff-cost aggregates per institution per year; internal per-role… | public |
| reviews & sentiment | Central bank survey units (ECB Survey of Professional Forecasters, Consumer Expectations Survey, Bank Lending Survey; Fed Senior Loan… | Per respondent (anonymised microdata) and aggregated monthly/quarterly series | public |
| financial filings | Central banks' own annual reports and weekly/monthly balance sheets; supervisory returns (COREP/FINREP, call reports) collected from… | Own balance sheet weekly/monthly; supervised bank returns quarterly per… | public |
| waste & emissions | Central banks' environmental/TCFD disclosures and cash departments (destroyed banknote volumes, banknote recycling and disposal) | Annual per institution; destruction volumes per denomination per cash centre… | public |
| customer demographics | Central bank statistics departments (Household Finance and Consumption Survey, Survey of Consumer Finances, payment diary/cash usage… | Per household/individual anonymised microdata; waves every 2-3 years | public |
| inventory & supply chain | Central bank cash departments and national printing works; central bank reserve management (gold and FX reserve holdings) | Currency in circulation by denomination (monthly, public); vault and branch… | partnership |
| production output | Central banks and their banknote printing works and mints (e.g. De La Rue contracts, Banknote Printing Works, national mints) | Print run volumes per denomination per year/batch; coin minting volumes annual | partnership |
| communications/marketing performance | Central bank communications departments (website/statement readability and reach analytics, press conference coverage tracking) and… | Per publication/speech/press conference; web analytics daily | partnership |
| quality & compliance testing | Central bank cash centres, National Analysis Centres and counterfeit analysis units (e.g. Europol/ECB Counterfeit Monitoring System)… | Per banknote inspected/sorted, per counterfeit seizure; published as… | partnership |
| transactional/sales | Central banks operating RTGS and retail payment systems (ECB/Eurosystem TARGET Services, Federal Reserve Fedwire, Bank of England CHAPS)… | Per payment/settlement instruction with timestamps and participant BICs… | exclusive |
| logistics & freight movement | Central bank cash distribution units together with cash-in-transit operators (Brink's, Loomis, G4S) and commercial bank cash centres | Per shipment/route between central bank branches, cash centres and bank vaults | exclusive |
| incident/safety/claims | Central banks as payment system operators and overseers (RTGS outage and incident logs, cyber incident reporting under TIBER/DORA), plus… | Per incident with duration and impact; public disclosure only summary/annual | exclusive |
| maintenance & asset condition | Central bank printing works and cash centres (banknote sorting machine telemetry, printing press maintenance records), plus RTGS/IT… | Per machine per run; per asset maintenance event | exclusive |
Compiled by the TriData research system from public registers, industry structure and regulatory reporting obligations; refreshed as the underlying catalogue grows. Look up the code itself in the NACE code finder.