Publication of statistics on financial corporations engaged in lending

The Czech National Bank commences the publication of statistics on financial corporations engaged in lending. Aggregated data on the structure of assets and liabilities and the structure of provided loans as of 31 December2005 for the group of financial leasing companies and the group of other lending companies were published in the time series system ARAD (in section Money and banking statistics >>> Monetary statistics >>> D. Statistics on other financial intermediaries >>> Financial corporations engaged in lending), where they will be regularly updated on a quarterly basis. The list of companies covered by the statistics is posted on the www site of Money and banking statistics of the CNB. The Czech National Bank collects the data for the compilation of statistics on financial corporations engaged in lending based on Decree No. 307 Coll. of 4 May 2004, concerning the submitting of information and documents to the Czech National Bank by entities that belong to the financial institution sector.