T3: Institutions offering payment services / instruments
(units, unless otherwise stated; end of year)
«Italy»
 Year
« ‹ 2019 › »
 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
Total number of institutions offering
 payment services/instruments		687649583545529
Breakdown of 'total number of institutions offering
 payment services/instruments' by category
Central bank11111
Number of branches or offices4339393333
Number of payment accounts2827252523
Value of payment accounts (EUR millions)8,01918,41116,19445,74337,725
Banks
Total number of entities643604538505485
Number of branches or offices30,25829,02727,37425,40924,311
Number of payment accounts (thousands)39,25540,31540,95141,60842,496
Partial breakdown of 'banks, number of payment accounts'
Of which: internet-linked (thousands) 133,72135,54037,91439,46541,224
Value of payment accounts (EUR millions)881,183911,4801,053,9191,097,1651,160,252
Breakdown of 'banks' by subcategory
Public limited (SpA) banks
Total number of entities164162147136126
Number of branches or offices19,43020,53321,33319,54218,395
Number of payment accounts (thousands)27,55930,74134,02734,40535,392
Value of payment accounts (EUR millions)613,041664,805869,908902,364920,711
Cooperative banks
Total number of entities3325232222
Number of branches or offices6,1443,9731,6191,5591,547
Number of payment accounts (thousands)6,6324,4351,6301,6521,413
Value of payment accounts (EUR millions)154,360118,28052,56349,76654,391
Mutual banks
Total number of entities365334289268259
Number of branches or offices4,4304,3504,2574,2364,235
Number of payment accounts (thousands)4,2994,4344,5084,6474,805
Value of payment accounts (EUR millions)76,44387,26193,38296,810130,793
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Branches of foreign banks
Total number of entities8183797978
Number of branches of foreign banks254171165162134
Number of payment accounts (thousands)765705786904886
Value of payment accounts (EUR millions)37,33941,13438,06548,22554,357
Non-banks offering payment services/instruments
Total number of entities 24344393943
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)
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Number of branches or offices12,90312,57612,58012,75012,562
Number of payment accounts (thousands)6,2536,2076,1866,2206,164
Value of payment accounts (EUR millions) 445,16949,64355,76958,70061,900
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
Total number of e-money issuers 5648609543512493
Partial breakdown of 'total number of e-money issuers'
 by type of institution
Of which: non-banks44478
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Partial breakdown of 'total outstanding e-money value'
 by type of institution
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 1 Internet-linked overnight deposits other than payment accounts are included 2 Payment Institutions and the Post Office are included 3 Post Office and Payment institutions with full operativity are included 4 Figures are drawn from the Poste Italiane Financial Statement (daily averages for the reference year) 5 All banks are authorised to issue e-money