Study title

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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 information
For the fourth edition (September 2022), quarter 1 data for 2022 have been added to the study. 


Main Topics:

The survey collects information about:

UK financial assets:

• London certificates of deposit
• certificates of deposit issued by building societies
• sterling treasury bills
• UK government securities (Gilts)
• commercial paper issued by UK companies
• ordinary shares issued by UK companies
• preference shares issued by UK companies
• medium term notes issued by UK companies
• other securities issued by UK companies

Overseas financial assets:

• current and deposit accounts with banks overseas
• commercial paper and certificates of deposit issued by overseas residents
• ordinary shares issued by overseas residents
• other securities issued by overseas residents

Financial liabilities:

• advances and loans from banks overseas