Statistics

Monetary financial institutions

Monetary financial institutions (MFI) are the financial Institutions which form the money issuing sector of the Eurozone.

These include the Eurosystem, the credit institutions of the Eurozone (as defined in Community law) and all the resident financial institutions whose business it is to receive deposits or their substitutes from institutions other than MFI and to extend credits or make investments in securities on their own account (at least in economic terms). This last group is made up essentially of money market funds.

The list of these institutions is of particular interest to MFI resident in Spain, that is, banks, savings banks, credit co-operatives, specialised credit institutions, the "Instituto de Crédito Oficial" (ICO) and money market funds which have to comply with the statistical requirements of Economic and Monetary Union (EMU), as laid down in regulation 71 of Banco de España Circular 4/2004, of 22 December and in the Spanish National Securities Market Commission (CNMV) Circular 1/2002, of 16 September..

The European Central Bank (ECB) also disseminates this information and therefore provides files for direct download from the ECB website in several formats and with several classification criteria, which contain the complete list updated on a monthly basis (on the last or penultimate day of each month), or just the changes that have taken place during that month (additions, deletions or changes in name or address).

The ECB also offers the possibility of including or excluding receipt, by e-mail, of the list of the MFI or the monthly changes.

• MFI List