Instructions
Overview of reported data
This return captures reporting institutions’ claims on non-residents, split by counterpart country, counterpart sector, and currency. It also collects an instrument breakdown by:
- loans and advances, and claims under sale and repurchase agreements
- holdings of bills
- lending under ECGD bank guarantee
- holdings of certificates of deposit and commercial paper
- portfolio investments in shares and other equity
- portfolio investments in securities other than shares
The currency breakdown is composed of: sterling, euro, US dollar, Japanese yen, Swiss franc, and other currencies.
The broad economic sector of counterparties are:
- bank sector counterparties include—intra-group, central monetary institutions, and other deposit-taking corporations
- non-bank sector counterparties include—other financial corporations, general government, non-financial corporations, households, and unallocated by sector
In every return firms also need to include:
- their company name
- their legal entity identifier (LEI) or firm reference number (FRN)
- the first day of the reporting period
- the last day of the reporting period
Core documents
You can find detailed instructions in the documents below.
Country analysis of UK external claims (CC) specific documents
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Notes for CC reporters |
Last updated |
BoE statistics data point model (DPM) 1.3.0 (ZIP)
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A folder containing two documents for defining all statistical reporting: annotated templates and a data dictionary
The Table of Contents worksheet in the annotated templates shows reporting templates relating to form CC |
24 Oct 2022 |
CC definitions (PDF) |
Includes details of what’s in scope and definitions of CC-specific terms |
3 Apr 2014 |
Form CC/CL FAQs (PDF) |
Answers to frequently asked questions regarding Form CC and CL
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3 Apr 2014 |
BoE statistics validations 1.3.0 (XLSX) |
Business validations for cross-checking data points within form CC and the suite of other statistical returns
View column O for a clearly worded description
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24 Oct 2022 |