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
    
        
            | Document | Notes for CC reporters | Last updated | 
    
    
        
            | BoE statistics data point model (DPM) 1.3.0 (ZIP) 
 | 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 
 | 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 | 24 Oct 2022 |