Alternatively, user-defined queries can be performed directly via the MFI data access facility. Downloads are available as tab-delimited CSV files. The ECB releases updated information on the list of MFIs on a daily basis.

supports the production of comprehensive and consistent lists of credit institutions subject to the Eurosystem’s minimum reserve requirements and counterparties eligible for Eurosystem operations.

ensures that the statistical reporting population is complete and homogeneous.

facilitates the monitoring and production of a comprehensive and consistent balance sheet of the money-creating sector in the euro area on the basis of an MFI population corresponding to sectors S121, S122 and S123 of the European System of Accounts 2010 (ESA 2010).

In accordance with Regulation ECB/2021/2, the ECB maintains and regularly updates a list of MFIs. These are instead classified in the sector “Other financial intermediaries, except insurance corporations and pension funds” (S125). MFIs do not include “non-MFI credit institutions”, which are credit institutions that are investment firms and that only conduct the business referred to in Article 4(1)(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) No 575/2013. collective investment undertakings that have been authorised pursuant to Article 4 of Regulation (EU) 2017/1131 and that issue shares or units which are close substitutes for deposits.

electronic money institutions, as defined in Article 2(1) of Directive 2009/110/EC, that are principally engaged in financial intermediation in the form of issuing electronic money.

financial intermediaries other than credit institutions whose business is to receive deposits and/or close substitutes for deposits from institutional units (including from non-MFIs) and to grant loans and/or make investments in securities on their own account.

credit institutions, as defined in Article 4(1)(1) of Regulation (EU) No 575/2013, the business of which is to take deposits or other repayable funds from the public and to grant credits for their own account.

deposit-taking corporations except central banks (S122), which are:.

the national central banks of the EU Member States and the European Central Bank MFIs, as defined by the ECB in Regulation ECB/2021/2, comprise the following statistical sectors

In order for it to have a comprehensive picture of monetary developments, the ECB collects statistical information from MFIs – the “money-issuing sector”.

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