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951.131NBOFederal Office OrdinanceMay 1, 2004Original source

(Art. 5 para. 1)

Surveys

Name of survey:Comprehensive monthly balance sheet
Coverage:Balance sheet positions and fiduciary business based on the bank accounting regulations of the Federal Council1and FINMA2; breakdown by residual maturity, by currency (Swiss francs, US dollars, euros, yen), by domicile or residence of customers in Switzerland or abroad, and by economic sector; on-balance sheet monetary claims and liabilities arising from repo transactions and from cash collateral for lending and other transactions; loans granted in cooperation with banks abroad – these loans are recorded in the foreign bank’s balance sheet
Type of survey:Partial sample survey
Reporting institutions:Banks whose balance sheet total and fiduciary business combined exceed CHF 500 million
Breakdown by economic sector: banks whose domestic assets exceed CHF 1.5 billion
Reporting entity:Bank office; parent company
Frequency:Monthly
Submission deadline after survey date:17 days
Special provisions:
Name of survey:Selected balance sheet positions for monetary aggregate statistics
Coverage:Those balance sheet positions that permit monetary aggregates to be estimated at an early stage
Type of survey:Partial sample survey
Reporting institutions:Banks whose total M3-relevant balance sheet positions exceed CHF 3 billion
Reporting entity:Bank office
Frequency:Monthly
Submission deadline after survey date:10 days
Special provisions:
Name of survey:Comprehensive year-end statistics
Coverage:Balance sheet positions and off-balance sheet business based on the bank accounting guidelines of the Federal Council3and FINMA4; breakdown by residual maturity, by currency (Swiss francs, US dollars, euros, yen), and by domicile or residence of customers in Switzerland or abroad; profit and loss account and supplementary information; country breakdown of assets and liabilities and of fiduciary business; on-balance-sheet monetary claims and liabilities arising from repo transactions and from cash collateral for lending and other transactions
Type of survey:Full sample survey
Partial sample survey for the country breakdown
Reporting institutions:All banks
Country breakdown: banks that are required to participate in the locational banking statistics
Reporting entity:Parent company; bank office and group for individual subsections
Frequency:Annually
Submission deadline after survey date:3 months
Special provisions:
Name of survey:Credit volume statistics
Coverage:Lending activities (credit limits, utilisation, value adjustments, write-downs) and impaired receivables; broken down into mortgage loans and claims against customers (secured and unsecured), by residual maturity, by economic sector, by domicile or residence of customers in Switzerland or abroad, and by the size of the borrower’s company
Type of survey:Partial sample survey
Reporting institutions:Banks whose loans to domestic non-banks exceed CHF 280 million
Reporting entity:Bank office
Frequency:Monthly
Submission deadline after survey date:20 days
Special provisions:
Name of survey:Survey on loan quality
Coverage:Information on loan quality (probability of default and expected loss) and loan volume; breakdown by economic sector, and by domicile or residence of customers in Switzerland or abroad
Type of survey:Partial sample survey
Reporting institutions:Banks whose loans to domestic non-banks exceed CHF 15 billion
Reporting entity:Group
Frequency:Quarterly
Submission deadline after survey date:2 months
Special provisions:
Name of survey:Lending rate statistics
Coverage:Form of credit, amount of loan, collateral, rating, interest rate, interest rate fixing, commission, term of credit and mode of repayment as well as characteristics of the borrower; all transactions based on new loan agreements shall be reported separately
Type of survey:Partial sample survey
Reporting institutions:Banks whose loans to non-financial domestic companies exceed CHF 2 billion
Reporting entity:Bank office
Frequency:Monthly
Submission deadline after survey date:1 month
Special provisions:
Name of survey:Bank lending survey
Coverage:Information on changes in lending criteria, lending conditions and demand for loans; breakdown of borrowers into companies (and by company size) and private households, by type of lending, by residual maturity, and by domicile or residence of customers in Switzerland or abroad.
Information on market interest rates in price-setting; broken down into different market rates or interest rate curves, and by type of loan
Type of survey:Partial sample survey
Reporting institutions:Banks whose loans to domestic non-banks exceed CHF 8 billion
Survey on bank lending abroad: Swiss-controlled banks whose loans to non-banks abroad exceed CHF 10 billion
Reporting entity:Bank office
Survey on bank lending abroad: Group
Frequency:Quarterly; every 2 years
Submission deadline after survey date:20 days
Special provisions:
Name of survey:New mortgages
Coverage:Newly approved mortgage loans financing real estate in Switzerland for the three following business trans-actions:
(i) financing the purchase of real estate, (ii) refinanc-ing a loan with another lender or (iii) financing the construction of real estate. Information on a loan’s general characteristics (e.g. borrower, type of business transaction, credit limit, usage, collateral, income), the characteristics of the individual tranches (e.g. interest rate product, interest rate, interest rate and capital commitment) and the characteristics of the individual property (e.g. type, location, value, net rent)
Type of survey:Partial sample survey
Reporting institutions:Banks whose domestic mortgage lending volume ex-ceeds CHF 6 billion
Reporting entity:Bank office
Frequency:Quarterly
Submission deadline after survey date:40 days
Special provisions:
Name of survey:Interest rate statistics
Coverage:Published end-of-month interest rates for new trans- actions; interest rates for variable mortgages, fixed mortgages, mortgages tied to money market interest rates and consumer credits; interest rates for customer deposits (break-down by product characteristic), time deposits and cash bonds
Type of survey:Partial sample survey
Reporting institutions:Banks whose total Swiss-franc denominated customer deposits and cash bonds in Switzerland exceed CHF 500 million (excluding private bankers who do not actively seek deposits from the public)
Reporting entity:Bank office
Frequency:Monthly
Submission deadline after survey date:10 days
Special provisions:
Name of survey:Breakdown of selected balance sheet items, by interest rate
Coverage:Selected balance sheet positions broken down by interest rate and by domicile or residence of counterparty in Switzerland or abroad
Type of survey:Partial sample survey
Reporting institutions:Banks whose Swiss franc denominated liabilities arising from customer deposits exceed CHF 4 billion or whose Swiss franc denominated liabilities towards banks exceed CHF 1.3 billion
Reporting entity:Parent company
Frequency:Quarterly
Submission deadline after survey date:1 month
Special provisions:
Name of survey:Securities holdings
Coverage:Securities held in open customer custody accounts; breakdown by category of securities (in particular money market instruments, medium-term bank-issued notes, bonds, shares, units in collective investment schemes, structured products), by origin of the issuer (resident or non-resident) and by currency; breakdown of custody account holders by economic sector and by domicile or residence in Switzerland or abroad; stock of borrowed securities
Type of survey:Partial sample survey; full sample survey
Reporting institutions:Banks, central securities depositories and central counterparties with total securities in customer custody accounts exceeding CHF 4.3 billion report on a monthly basis; all other banks, central securities depositories and central counterparties report once a year
Reporting entity:Bank office
Frequency:Monthly; annually
Submission deadline after survey date:Monthly reporting: 25 days
Annual reporting: 3 months
Special provisions:
Name of survey:Securities turnover
Coverage:Turnover in open customer custody accounts from purchase and sales transactions; breakdown of custody account holders by domicile or residence in Switzerland or abroad; breakdown of turnover by securities category (in particular money market instruments, medium-term bank-issued notes, bonds, shares, units in collective investment schemes, structured products), by origin of issuer (resident or non-resident) and by currency
Type of survey:Partial sample survey
Reporting institutions:Banks, central securities depositories and central counterparties that are required to participate in the monthly securities holdings statistics
Reporting entity:Bank office
Frequency:Quarterly
Submission deadline after survey date:25 days
Special provisions:
Name of survey:Collective investment schemes statistics
Coverage:Assets and changes in the assets of collective investment schemes; value of the units issued and reimbursed respectively by the collective investment schemes; breakdown of assets by Switzerland and other countries, by currency and by investment category (money market instruments, claims from repurchase transactions, bonds, shares and other equity securities, units in other collective investment schemes, structured products, land and buildings, other securities); breakdown of liabilities into Switzerland and abroad; breakdown of collective investment schemes by legal form and by the legal type of open-ended collective investment schemes; income statement
Type of survey:Full sample survey
Reporting institutions:Fund management companies of Swiss funds and Swiss companies offering collective investment schemes in accordance with Article 13 paragraph 2 of the Collective Investment Schemes Act of 23 June 20065
Reporting entity:
Frequency:Quarterly
Submission deadline after survey date:20 days
Special provisions:
Name of survey:Solvency risk of counterparties in the interbank sector
Coverage:Recording of the ten or twenty largest claims and liabilities positions vis-à-vis other banks or bank groups in Switzerland and abroad
Type of survey:Full sample survey
Reporting institutions:All banks or bank groups
Reporting entity:Group
Frequency:Quarterly
Submission deadline after survey date:6 weeks
Special provisions:If the conditions set forth in Article 5 paragraph 2 NBO are fulfilled, the deadline may be shortened to 24 hours
Name of survey:FSB Survey on Granular Institution-to-Aggregate Assets and Liabilities
Coverage:Country breakdown of items on the assets and liabilities sides of the balance sheet, as well as off-balance-sheet items, financial derivatives and foreign exchange derivatives; breakdown by economic sector, currency and residual maturity; information on different reporting levels. The survey follows the recommendations of the Financial Stability Board
Type of survey:Partial sample survey
Reporting institutions:Global systemically important banks in accordance with definition of the Financial Stability Board
Reporting entity:Group
Frequency:Quarterly
Submission deadline after survey date:2 months
Special provisions:
Name of survey:IMF Coordinated Portfolio Investment Survey
Coverage:Recording of the stock of securities of non-resident issuers in the open custody accounts of resident customers; breakdown by category of securities (money market instruments, bonds, shares, units in collective investment schemes, structured products and other securities) and by country of origin of the issuer
Type of survey:Partial sample survey
Reporting institutions:Banks, central securities depositories and central counterparties with total reportable securities holdings exceeding CHF 1.8 billion
Reporting entity:Bank office
Frequency:Quarterly
Submission deadline after survey date:25 days
Special provisions:
Name of survey:BIS Locational Banking Statistics
Coverage:Country breakdown of items on the assets and liabilities sides of the balance sheet, as well as off-balance-sheet items; recording of local claims and liabilities of subsidiaries and branches; breakdown by economic sector, residual maturity and collateral. The survey follows the requirements of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS)
Type of survey:Partial sample survey
Reporting institutions:Banks which are required to report for the BIS locational banking statistics, and which are either Swiss-controlled or whose foreign parent company has no banking licence
Reporting entity:Group
Frequency:Quarterly
Submission deadline after survey date:2 months
Special provisions:
Name of survey:BIS locational banking statistics
Coverage:Country breakdown of the assets and liabilities sides of the balance sheet, as well as fiduciary transactions; breakdown by economic sector, currency and residual maturity. The survey follows the requirements of the Bank for International Settlements
Type of survey:Partial sample survey
Reporting institutions:Banks for which the sum of assets and fiduciary assets abroad or the sum of liabilities and fiduciary liabilities abroad exceeds CHF 1 billion
Reporting entity:Bank office
Frequency:Quarterly
Submission deadline after survey date:25 days
Special provisions:
Name of survey:BIS OTC derivatives statistics
Coverage:Foreign exchange and derivatives transactions according to the requirements of the Bank for Inter-national Settlements; amounts outstanding; turnover
Type of survey:Partial sample survey
Reporting institutions:Half-yearly statistics: two largest bank groups
Every three years: banks with contract volumes of open derivative financial instruments exceeding CHF 8 billion (for turnover) and CHF 30 billion (for amounts outstanding)
Reporting entity:Bank office (turnover); group (amounts outstanding)
Frequency:Turnover: every three years
Amounts outstanding: semi-annually and every three years
Submission deadline after survey date:1 month (turnover); 2 months (amounts outstanding)
Special provisions:
Name of survey:Current account survey
Coverage:Cross-border trade in goods (excluding foreign trade according to statistics from the Federal Office for Customs and Border Security6) and services, merchanting, trade related to manufacturing services on physical inputs and production abroad, cross-border labour income and investment income, and transfers according to the guidelines of the International Monetary Fund and the European Union (EU) requirements under the Agreement of 26 October 20047between the Swiss Confederation and the European Community on Cooperation in the Field of Statistics. Breakdown by country, type of transaction and economic sector
Type of survey:Partial sample survey
Reporting institutions:Legal entities and companies where the transaction value per reporting item exceeds CHF 100,000
Reporting entity:
Frequency:Quarterly or annually
Submission deadline after survey date:Quarterly reporting: 1 month
Annual reporting: 3 months
Special provisions:The reporting obligation is also fulfilled if the bank involved in the payment transactions reports the transaction
Name of survey:Survey on cross-border capital linkages
Coverage:Cross-border capital flows (transactions), capital stocks (foreign assets and liabilities) and investment income according to the guidelines of the Inter-national Monetary Fund (IMF) and the European Union (EU) requirements under the Agreement of 26 October 20048between the Swiss Confederation and the European Community on Cooperation in the Field of Statistics. Breakdown by country, size of stocks and economic sector. The survey covers both intragroup relations (direct investment) and relations with third parties
Type of survey:Partial sample survey
Reporting institutions:Legal entities and companies where the transaction value exceeds CHF 1 million per reporting item, or where the foreign assets or liabilities at the time of the survey exceed CHF 10 million per reporting item
Reporting entity:
Frequency:Quarterly or annually
Submission deadline after survey date:Quarterly reporting: 1 month
Annual reporting: 3 months
Special provisions:The reporting obligation is also fulfilled if the bank entrusted with the payment transactions or the custody of the foreign assets reports the item
Name of survey:Cashless payment transactions – payment systems
Coverage:Amount and number of settled transactions, broken down by currency; number of direct participants
Type of survey:Partial sample survey
Reporting institutions:Payment systems operators settling payments that exceed CHF 100 million (gross) per financial year (excluding so-called in-house payment systems)
Reporting entity:
Frequency:Monthly
Submission deadline after survey date:1 month
Special provisions:
Name of survey:Cashless payment transactions – payment cards and other payment instruments
Coverage:Data on payment cards and other payment instruments, broken down into credit cards, debit cards and e-money: Amount and number of transactions breakdown by location of transaction (domestics and foreign), by type of transaction («card present» and «card not present» transactions for the purchase of goods and services; cash withdrawals) by card origin (domestic and foreign), and by business activity of the merchant (industry breakdown); number of cards; number of terminals; for e-money only: float and loading (amount of electronically stored monetary value)
Type of survey:Partial sample survey
Reporting institutions:Issuers and acquirers (excluding ATM acquirers) of credit cards settling payments that exceed CHF 100 million (gross) per financial year
Issuers and acquirers (excluding ATM acquirers) of debit cards settling payments that exceed CHF 100 million (gross) per financial year
Issuers and acquirers (excluding ATM acquirers) of e-money settling payments that exceed CHF 50 million (gross) per financial year
Reporting entity:
Frequency:Monthly
Submission deadline after survey date:1 month
Special provisions:
Name of survey:Customer payment transactions
Coverage:Customer payments initiated at or received by banks within a given month. Divided into incoming and outgoing payments, and then subdivided by type of order. Payments are broken down into domestic payments and those involving a bank domiciled abroad, and also by currency. Specific cash withdrawals and deposits, as well as data on bank infrastructure.
Type of survey:Partial sample survey
Reporting institutions:Banks whose annual number of transactions in Swiss Interbank Clearing exceeds 5 million
Reporting entity:Bank office
Frequency:Monthly
Submission deadline after survey date:1 month
Special provisions:
Name of survey:Automated teller machines (ATMs)
Coverage:Number of ATMs
Type of survey:Full sample survey
Reporting institutions:Operators of ATM networks
Reporting entity:
Frequency:Monthly
Submission deadline after survey date:1 month
Special provisions:

Footnotes

  1. Chap. 4, Art. 25–42 of the Banking O of 30 April 2014 (SR 952.02 ).

  2. FINMA Accounting O of 31 Oct. 2019 (SR 952.024.1 ), as well as FINMA Circular 2020/1 ‘Accounting – Banks’ of 31 Oct. 2019.

  3. Chap. 4, Art. 25–42 of the Banking O of 30 April 2014 (SR 952.02 ).

  4. FINMA Accounting O of 31 Oct. 2019 (SR 952.024.1 ), as well as FINMA Circular 2020/1 ‘Accounting – Banks’ of 31 Oct. 2019.

  5. SR 951.31

  6. The name of this administrative unit was modified on 1 Jan.2022 in application of Art. 20 para. 2 of the Publications Ordinance of 7 Oct. 2015 (SR 170.512.1 ) (AS 2021 589).

  7. SR 0.431.026.81

  8. SR 0.431.026.81

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