Financial intermediaries

Generally, companies that receive money from investors and lend it to borrowers (any financial institution that receives money from savers or investors and lends those funds to borrowers, thus providing a link between those seeking earnings on their funds and those looking for credit). Statistically, therefore, at the ECB the collective term for insurance companies, pension funds, capital management companies (investment funds) and others. – Legally, in connection with money laundering legislation and case law, in addition to banks, capital management companies, insurance companies, brokers, bureaux de change and casinos, also asset managers, trustees and lawyers, insofar as they receive and manage money. – See banking services, imputed, end investors, financial service providers, financial industry, financial market, capital investment code, nonbank, growth significance. – Cf. the ongoing coverage in the “Euro area statistics” in the respective ECB Monthly Bulletin, heading “Monetary developments, banks and investment funds,” subheading “Deposits of financial intermediaries,” as well as Deutsche Bundesbank Monthly Bulletin of December 2004, pp. 31 et seq. (explanatory overview p. 33), ECB Monthly Report of June 2005, p. 19 ff. (important delineations; assessment), ECB Annual Report 2006, p. 32 ff. (detailed presentation; overviews), BaFin Annual Report 2006, p. 33 (pan-European supervisory guidelines; conflicts of interest), BaFin Annual Report 2007, p. 51 ff. (supervisory development through a series of measures), BaFin Annual Report 2008, p. 47 f. (IOSCO final report on supervision of financial intermediaries), ECB Monthly Report of February 2013, p. 102 f. (enumeration of financial intermediaries), Deutsche Bundesbank Monthly Report of March 2014, p. 20 (balance sheet totals of euro area financial intermediaries: comparison of 1999 with 2007 and 2013), p. 22 (comparison of euro area to U.S.; country-specific shares in euro area in Q3 2013), p. 23 (half of the assets of euro area financial intermediaries are held in the Netherlands and Luxembourg).

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