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The Quarterly Survey of Financial Assets and Liabilities (FALS) collects information on the financial assets and liabilities held by companies, with the exception of financial institutions. (Financial Institutions are organisations such as banks and building societies and these provide data directly to the Bank of England). The data are mainly used in constructing the financial accounts for the non-financial corporations’ sector of the UK National Accounts and as an input into the compilation of the capital account of the UK Balance of Payments (the difference between imports and exports).Latest edition informationFor the fourth edition (September 2022), quarter 1 data for 2022 have been added to the study.
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The survey collects information about: UK financial assets:London certificates of depositcertificates of deposit issued by building societiessterling treasury billsUK government securities (Gilts) commercial paper issued by UK companiesordinary shares issued by UK companiespreference shares issued by UK companiesmedium term notes issued by UK companiesother securities issued by UK companiesOverseas financial assets:current and deposit accounts with banks overseascommercial paper and certificates of deposit issued by overseas residentsordinary shares issued by overseas residentsother securities issued by overseas residentsFinancial liabilities:advances and loans from banks overseas
One-stage stratified or systematic random sample
Postal survey