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See Financial Asset Acquisition Fund

The face value of a debt security refers to the amount of principal that must be repaid, without any deductions.

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See Financial Accounts

Acronym corresponding to the Spanish Agricultural Guarantee Fund (website).

Siglas que corresponden a Fondo Europeo de Pesca.

Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions associated with financial activities, such as loans, investments, and bond issuances.

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In the Balance of Payments, this account shows the net acquisition and disposal of financial assets and liabilities with non-residents.

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Statistics that are part of the national accounts system and that record the economic flows of a financial nature and the corresponding financial positions or balances between the different sectors of the Spanish economy and between these and the rest of the world. Both the flows and balances of financial assets and liabilities classified by type of financial instrument are recorded.

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The Fund for the Acquisition of Financial Assets is a fund created with the purpose of supporting the supply of credit for the productive activities of businesses and individuals. It was established by Royal Decree-Law 6/2008, of October 10.

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Financial assets are stores of value that represent benefits or a series of benefits that accrue to the economic owner by holding or using the assets over a period of time. They are a means of transferring stores of value from one accounting period to another.

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Subsector of the economy formed by institutions and financial quasi-corporations that are primarily engaged in activities closely related to financial intermediation, but do not form part of it, that is, they do not take own positions.

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Financial derivatives are financial instruments linked to a specific instrument, financial indicator, or commodity, through which specific financial risks can be traded in financial markets on their own. Financial derivatives include options, futures, and similar instruments, as well as swaps.

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Interest payable on financing received and other financial expenses.

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Entities whose main function is to provide financial services.

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A contract that simultaneously generates a financial asset for one party and a financial liability for the other

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Indirect remuneration obtained by financial institutions in deposit and loan operations conducted with their clients.

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They are economic flows that involve the net acquisition of financial assets or the net incurrence of liabilities. These types of operations can be the counterpart of non-financial operations, or they can involve only financial instruments. The terms operations and transactions are equivalent.

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The Financial Stability Board (FSB) is an international body whose functions include overseeing the international financial system and making recommendations with the objectives of strengthening it and increasing the stability of financial markets.

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See Financial intermediation services indirectly measured

Composition of an aggregate that remains unchanged throughout the entire time series of a statistic, regardless of whether its definition has changed over time.

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Fixed interest rate is the type of interest rate that remains unchanged throughout the entire duration of the financial operation.

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In the context of Balance of Payments statistics, International Investment Position, and Financial Accounts, flows reflect the creation, transformation, exchange, transfer, or extinction of economic value and imply changes in the value of the assets or liabilities of an institutional unit.

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Acronym corresponding to the Spanish Wage Guarantee Fund (website).

Foreign currency is understood to mean both foreign banknotes and bank balances denominated in foreign currency. Any right expressed in foreign currency and payable abroad (a check, for example) is also considered foreign currency.

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See Fund for Orderly Bank Restructuring (FROB)

The classification of functional categories applies to financial flows and positions with non-residents, and aims to classify them by the economic reasons that cause them and by behavioral patterns.

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The FROB is a public law entity with its own legal personality and full public and private capacity to achieve its objectives, which aims to manage the processes of credit institutions and/or investment service companies in their executive phase.

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