Definition: Deposit-taking corporations except the central ban...

Category: European System of Accounts (ESA)

All financial corporations and quasi-corporations, except those classified in the central bank and in the MMF (money market funds) subsectors, which are principally engaged in financial  intermediation and whose  business is to receive deposits and/or close substitutes for deposits from institutional units, hence not only from MFIs (monetary financial institutions), and, for their own account, to grant loans and/or to make investments in securities. http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/product?code=KS-02-13-269&mode=view European Union, Regulation (EU) No 549/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 21 May 2013 on the European system of national and regional accounts in the European Union, Official Journal of the European Union No L 174, 26.06.2013, p. 1 - 727