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
363342281270255
Breakdown of 'total number of institutions offering
 payment services/instruments' by category
Central bank11111
Number of branches or offices1616161616
Number of payment accounts2,3602,0102,0451,9951,774
Value of payment accounts (EUR millions)6,3704917612619,470
Banks
Total number of entities314290226218207
Number of branches or offices38,14233,71331,99931,08728,807
Number of payment accounts (thousands)65,39867,30464,52462,43261,366
Partial breakdown of 'banks, number of payment accounts'
Of which: internet-linked (thousands) 129,87634,84536,26736,57636,749
Value of payment accounts (EUR millions)515,391541,443617,671724,269821,610
Breakdown of 'banks' by subcategory
Credit institutions legally incorporated in the reporting country
Total number of entities 2230204144134125
Number of branches or offices37,90433,48231,75530,85428,583
Number of payment accounts (thousands) 365,39867,30464,52462,43261,366
Value of payment accounts (EUR millions)488,259511,095582,360685,951778,855
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Branches of foreign banks
Total number of entities 48486828482
Number of branches of foreign banks238231244233224
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Value of payment accounts (EUR millions)27,13230,34835,31138,31842,755
Non-banks offering payment services/instruments
Total number of entities4851545147
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 entities4851545147
Number of branches or officesnavnav143143154
Number of payment accounts (thousands)navnav101313
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Non-banks relying on storage of value on payment
 accounts or on a device offered by others
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MEMO: FOCUS on E-MONEY
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Partial breakdown of 'total number of e-money issuers'
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 1 Figures from 2010 to November 2014 have been estimated on the basis of information collected under Regulation ECB/2008/32.Figures from December 2014 have been estimated on the basis of information collected under Regulation ECB/2013/33. 2 Data refers to commercial banks, savings banks and credit cooperatives. 3 Data refers to payment accounts for credit institutions legally incorporated in the reporting countries and branches of foreign banks.Figures from 2010 to November 2014 have been estimated on the basis of info collected under Reg. ECB/2008/32. Figures onwards have been estimated on the basis of info collected under Reg. ECB/2013/33. 4 Data refers to offices reported by other payment services as defined in the ECB payments statistics regulation ECB/2013/43.