... Standards Initiatives (recommendations 2, 10, 11, 15, 17, and 19, and perhaps 9). IMF 2012 Second half FSB Plenary and the second phase of the work on G-SIFIs (recommendations 8 and ... 11 17. The IMF to promote timely and cross-country standardized and comparable government finance data based on the accepted international standard, the Government Finance Statistics ... Eurostat, and the ECB to ensure that such an initiative would not duplicate current collections of general and central government debt data. Once coverage is extended and when countries start reporting,...