Explanatory note on the list of entities for statistical
purposes – ESA 20101
The lists of entities cover the following institutional sectors: “financial corporations” (code
S.12); and “general government” (code S.13).
Banco de Portugal is responsible for updating
the list of resident monetary financial institutions, thus contributing to maintaining a
comprehensive list of such entities operating
in each European Union Member State
(Monetary Financial Institutions (MFIs) data).
This list, which is also used to identify institutions subject to minimum reserve requirements, is available on the European Central
Bank’s website, and is updated on a monthly
basis.
Whenever an institution has doubts on the
sectoral classification of a corporation, it
should contact the Monetary and Financial
Statistics Division and the Central Credit
Register of Banco de Portugal’s Statistics
Department (through fax no 21 312 8480 or
email ddemc@bportugal.pt). It should supply
all available information and deemed important for classification.
With regard to the breakdown of the nonresident sector, an exercise was carried out at
Community level to define a series of guidelines identifying the institutional sectors of the
various Member States (see “Money and
Banking Statistics Sector Manual”). At the
same time, the above-mentioned list of MFIs
available on the ECB’s website allows all this
sector’s entities operating in EU Member
States to be identified.
The lists of entities for statistical purposes are
structured into eight different components:
monetary financial institutionsinvestment
funds (except money market funds); other
financial intermediaries; financial auxiliaries;
captive financial institutions and money
lenders; insurance companies and pension
funds; general government; and entities from
the public sector, excluding the general
government. Each component has its own file
available in EXCEL and PDF format. Each list
component may be updated with different
frequencies. The list regarding the MFI sector
will be updated on a monthly basis in liaison
with the procedure involving the list on EU
Member States. The month in which every
component was updated is referred to next to
the respective identification.
Each file of lists of entities includes the
following fields:
•
Entity identifying code – refers to
the code assigned by the Portuguese Securities Market Commission in the case of investment
funds, the code assigned by the Insurance and Pension Funds Supervisory Authority in the case of pension funds and the legal person
number for the remaining entities.
•
BP code – refers to the code of registration at Banco de Portugal assigned to entities subject to the
Bank’s supervision. For institutions
that are not under the Bank’s supervision, this field is blank. The
field is only available in files updated from September 2002 onwards.
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•
Name
•
Commencement of activity – refers to the date of setting-up or
commencement of activities in the
sector in question. In the case of
new entities this date corresponds
to their set-up date, and may not
coincide with the actual date of
commencement of activities; in the
case of already existing entities,
but which have undergone a
change in institutional sector, the
date indicated in this field corresponds to the date of institutional
sector change, which should correspond to the actual date of commencement of activity in the new
sector.
•
institutions component, its potential for
being out-of-date is small, given that any
changes are incorporated on a monthly
basis.
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European Parliament and of the Council of 21 May 2013.
Termination of activity – refers to
the date of termination of activity
in the sector in question, which
corresponds to the date in which
the entity actually ended its activities or the date of change of the institutional sector where it was classified for statistical purposes.
In addition to entities in operation, those
that terminated their activities in the past
two years are also presented.
When the statistical sectoral classification
of an entity is changed and it is incorporated into a different sector, the entity is
listed in both sectors, with an associated
date of termination of activity in the initial
sector and a starting date in the new
sector.
These lists are as comprehensive as possible and based on information available at
Banco de Portugal as soon as it is received.
With regard to the monetary financial
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