The accounts of the Banco de M xico are not consolidated with those of the banks because they are classified differently. Periodicity Monthly Timeliness Twenty days after the end of the reference month for all prescribed components. The Bank is an autonomous body which operates under the Law on the Banco de M xico of December 1993. The law authorizes the Bank to publish economic and financial statistics. The data are provided in aggregated form.
Confidentiality is maintained with respect to institutions, individuals, and enterprises.
The Law on the Bank of Mexico is published only in Spanish, a print version is included in the 1993 Annual Report, which is available for a fee from the Bank of Mexico address in the dissemination formats page. No government employee outside of the Banco de M xico has access to the data prior to their publication. The data are issued without comment. The data are preliminary when first released. The data published 20 days after month-end are estimated and subject to revision the following month.