METIS organizes, documents, and display structured information about the Financial Institutions Development of Latin America and the Caribbean.
A regional project of data and knowledge that consolidates financial information, operational and institutional levels in order to facilitate the analysis, the transparency and reusability.
Structured data
Financial information, operational and institutional with homogeneous criteria.
Analysis for decisions
Visualizations and tools to identify trends and patterns.
Regional coverage
Information on Institutions Financial Development in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Access and reuse
Data, documentation, and publications for research and analysis.
A transparent process to ensure consistency, traceability and update.
1. Identification of sources
Institutional sources, and officially recognized.
2. Approval and validation
Standardization of terminology, definitions, units and formats.
3. Integration in METIS
Organization in a common structure and documented.
4. Continuous update
Periodic review and record versions.
+ 20
Countries of Latin America and the Caribbean
+ 100
Development Financial institutions
2010 - 2024
Historical Coverage
Multiple sources
Financial and operational information
Methodological framework
Principles, approaches and criteria for the construction of the data.
Data dictionary
Variable definitions, classifications, units and sources.
Policy update
Frequency, responsibilities, versioning and revision.
Sources and definitions
List of official sources and methodological references.
A synthesis of the milestones that explain the progressive consolidation of the information assets of ALIDE and its transformation into a regional platform of data and knowledge.
Acquis regional information
Since its creation, ALIDE has collected a comprehensive set of data sets and variables on development financial institutions, initially scattered and not systematized in a regional system unified.
Approval regional
It drives a project aimed to standardize and harmonize financial databases IFD of Latin America and the Caribbean, establishing common criteria of structure and comparability.
Update and systematization
Updated the historical bases and systematizing new data sets, expanding the thematic coverage and to strengthen the traceability of variables and sources.
Joint international
In the framework of FiCS, ALIDE establish contact with global projects database and formulates a methodology to integrate and harmonize these sources with its own information assets.
Platform design
The project starts from the creation of a platform and a database architecture to present, document, and visualize the bases and variables developed by ALIDE.
METIS is conceived as a regional infrastructure of knowledge to organize, integrate, document, and put in value the information assets of ALIDE on development banks in Latin America and the Caribbean.
RESPONSIBLE INSTITUTIONAL PROJECT
Economic Studies program and Information of ALIDE
Kevin Alvaro Parties Garcia
Economic Studies program and Information of ALIDE. Coordinator of METIS and head of the Center for Information and Knowledge of ALIDE (CICO).
Corporate oversight and strategic support for the development and consolidation of the platform.