T3: Institutions offering payment services / instruments
(units, unless otherwise stated; end of year)
Year
«  2016  »
2012 2013 2014 2015 2016
Total number of institutions offering
 payment services/instruments 1
1,9181,8931,8571,8281,756
Breakdown of 'total number of institutions offering
 payment services/instruments' by category
Central bank11111
Number of branches or offices4141413535
Number of payment accountsnapnap23,27323,04222,995
Value of payment accounts (EUR millions)40,44110,80210,09674,356118,635
Banks
Total number of entities1,8671,8421,8081,7741,702
Number of branches or offices 238,13238,02137,09034,00331,959
Number of payment accounts (thousands) 396,83598,488100,191102,080104,568
Partial breakdown of 'banks, number of payment accounts'
Of which: internet-linked (thousands) 3napnap78,61881,47485,971
Value of payment accounts (EUR millions) 41,413,5881,527,8501,630,5681,776,0831,898,127
Breakdown of 'banks' by subcategory
Domestic banks
Total number of entities1,7581,7341,6981,6661,600
Number of branches or offices 237,89237,77636,83133,74431,708
Number of payment accounts (thousands) 3navnav97,63998,404100,699
Value of payment accounts (EUR millions) 41,353,0701,454,9201,545,9931,680,9161,799,675
Bank type II
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Bank type III
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Bank type IV
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Bank type V
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Bank type VI
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Bank type VII
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Branches of foreign banks
Total number of entities109108110108102
Number of branches of foreign banks240245259259251
Number of payment accounts (thousands) 3navnav2,5523,6753,869
Value of payment accounts (EUR millions) 460,79373,21384,57595,16798,452
Non-banks offering payment services/instruments
Total number of entities 55050485353
Breakdown of 'non-banks offering payment services/
 instruments, total number of entities' by subcategory
Non-banks offering storage of value
 (on a payment account or on a device)
Total number of entities 634477
Number of branches or officesnavnavnavnav106
Number of payment accounts (thousands)navnavnav1,0251,215
Value of payment accounts (EUR millions) 7navnavnavnavnav
Non-banks relying on storage of value on payment
 accounts or on a device offered by others
Total number of entities 84746444646
MEMO: FOCUS on E-MONEY
Total number of e-money issuers1,8711,8471,8131,7821,710
Partial breakdown of 'total number of e-money issuers'
 by type of institution
Of which: non-banks 634477
Total outstanding e-money value (EUR millions)napnap969596
Partial breakdown of 'total outstanding e-money value'
 by type of institution
Of which: issued by a non-bank (EUR millions) 7navnavnavnavnav
 1 Includes electronic money institutions. 2 Includes those post office branches of Deutsche Postbank AG which are entrusted with the semi-cashless payment systems on behalf of the Postbank AG. 3 Up to 2014, includes only accounts for transferable deposits and not accounts for card-based e-money. 4 Includes transferable and non-transferable deposits as well as deposits for card-based e-money. 5 From reference period 2012 the number of payment institutions providing services through an established branch is added to the number of payment institutions resident in the country. The recent list of payment institutions resident in the country is published on the website of the German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin). 6 ND 7 Until reference period 2010 by approximation: liabilities to non-MFIs which mature daily. 8 From reference period 2012 the number of payment institutions providing services through an established branch is added to the number of payment institutions resident in the country. The recent list of payment institutions resident in the country is published on the website of the German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin): https://portal.mvp.bafin.de/database/ZahlInstInfo/