There are various documents available explaining how TIPS works, including, amongst others, the Guide for TARGET Participants, the User Detailed Functional Specifications and the user handbooks. These and further documents can be found here.

The Centralised Securities Database is a security-by-security reference database that contains data on instruments, issuers and prices for debt securities, equity instruments and investment fund shares issued worldwide. A security-by-security database is a microdatabase that stores statistics at an individual security level.

Germany’s Statistics on International Trade in Services are collected by the Deutsche Bundesbank in order to compile Germany’s Balance of Payments Statistics and serve as the basis for the research data set Statistics on International Trade in Services (SITS).