Date Published: 16/09/2025
In accordance with Regulation ECB/2013/38 of 18 October 2013, concerning statistics on the assets and liabilities of investment funds, the national central banks of euro area member states are required to maintain for statistical purposes a List of Investment funds (IFs) resident in their territory. The List of IFs for all euro area countries is published on the European Central Bank website. This list is updated on a quarterly basis, two month after the end of each quarter.
The IF sector consists of all collective investment schemes, except those classified in the money market funds (MMF) sub-sector, which are principally engaged in financial intermediation and their business is to issue investment fund shares or units which are not close substitutes for deposits and, on their own account, to make investments primarily in financial assets other than short-term financial assets and in non-financial assets. Non-MMF investment funds cover investment trusts, unit trusts and other collective investment schemes whose investment fund shares or units are not seen as close substitutes for deposits.
The IF sector in Cyprus comprises of all Alternative Investment Funds (AIF) and Undertakings for Collective Investment in Transferable Securities (UCITS) which are regulated and supervised by the Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission.
Date Published: 02/10/2025
In accordance with Council Regulation (EC) No 2533/98 of 23 November 1998 concerning the collection of statistical information by the European Central Bank (ECB) and Regulation of the European Central Bank ECB/2013/33 of 24 September 2013 concerning the balance sheet of the monetary financial institutions sector (recast), the ECB establishes and updates on a regular basis the List of Monetary Financial Institutions (MFIs) [link-ECB list] for statistical purposes assisted by the national central banks of the euro area member states.
The List of MFIs, in addition, indicates whether credit institutions are subject to – or exempt from – minimum reserve requirements.
MFIs are:
1. Central banks; and
2. Other MFIs, which comprise
a) Deposit-taking corporations:
(i) Credit institutions as defined in Article 4(1)(1) of Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 June 2013 on prudential requirements for credit institutions and investment firms, and
(ii) Deposit-taking corporations other than credit institutions which are:
- Other financial institutions which are principally engaged in financial intermediation and whose business is to receive deposits and/or close substitutes for deposits from institutional units, not only from MFIs (the degree of substitutability between the instruments issued by other MFIs and the deposits placed with credit institutions shall determine their classification as MFIs), and for their own account, at least in economic terms, to grant loans and/or make investments in securities, or
- Electronic money institutions that are principally engaged in financial intermediation in the form of issuing electronic money, or
b) Money market funds (MMFs) pursuant to Article 2.
More information is available on the ECB’s website.
MFIs in Cyprus comprise of the Central Bank of Cyprus, all credit institutions operating in Cyprus, including Co-operative Credit Institutions (CCIs), and electronic money institutions.
The List of MFIs maintained by the Central Bank of Cyprus, which is updated on an ad hoc basis, can be found above.