Financial accounts
Financial accounts
Financial accounts statistics is part of the integrated system of national accounts, which present stocks and flows of financial assets and liabilities by sector, over a period of time. Compiling financial accounts statistics is a complex process, as it includes the use of various data sources that are often designed for other statistical purposes and can be set on various methodological bases. All this requires significant effort for proper combination of data sources from primary statistics, usage of estimation models and creation of data sources hierarchy.
The relevance of financial account statistics is immense, as it provides detailed information on the stocks and flows of financial assets and liabilities by sector, their structure by financial instrument, as well as the mutual financial exposure to sectors, including information on net borrowing and/or net lending between the sectors in the national economy and with the rest of the world, in a given period of time. Therefore, financial accounts are an important source of information for economic policy makers.
The data for the annual financial accounts – stocks, are published by the National Bank on a regular basis starting from December 2020, and from October 2023 these data are published with quarterly periodicity. Starting from December 2025, the National Bank on a regular basis is publishing quarterly data on transactions as well.
The debt securities data show the financial links based on the financial instrument - debt securities, among the sectors in the national economy and between the sectors of the national economy and the rest of the world. The data are shown on a “from whom to whom” basis, by sector of holders and sector of issuers of debt securities. More specifically, the data refer to the stock of domestic and foreign debt securities held by resident holders, as well as the stock of domestic debt securities held by non-resident holders. The data are prepared in accordance with international and European statistical standards.
The debt securities table provide systematized and more detailed presentation of debt securities data that are available, on a more aggregated level, within the financial account statistics framework, where data for all financial instruments are presented.