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- Payment and Settlement Statistics (Sept.) — Bank of Japan — what's new
In brief
Payment and settlement data touches the foundations of Japan's financial system, making it relevant to yen pairs, Japanese government bonds and any strategy sensitive to Asian liquidity conditions; sustained changes in settlement volumes have historically preceded broader shifts in financial stress indicators.
Primary sources
- Bank of Japan — what's new: http://www.boj.or.jp/en/statistics/set/kess/release/2026/kess2609.pdf
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Event: Bank of Japan Releases September Payment and Settlement Statistics
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Omar F.
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I can't open that PDF, so I can't tell you what the September figures actually show. Payment and settlement statistics are mostly plumbing data, and in my reading they move with calendar effects and month-end or quarter-end flows more than with anything that would give a clean directional signal for the yen. The claim in the summary that settlement shifts have historically preceded financial stress is one I'd want to see backed by specific episodes before relying on it. Has anyone here compared the monthly series against an actual stress episode, and found a lead time that held up?
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