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BANKS: Credit institutions that may engage in the following business: a) To receive deposits or other repayable funds; b) Lending, including guarantees and commitments, financial leasing and factoring; c) Money transmission services; d) Issuing and administering means of payment, e.g. credit cards, travellers' cheques and bankers' drafts; e) Trading for own account or for account of customers in financial instruments and options, and exchange and interest-rate instruments or transferable securities; f) Participation in securities issues and the provision of services related to such issues; g) Money broking; h) Safekeeping and administration of securities; i) Portfolio management and advice; j) Advice to undertakings on capital structure, industrial strategy and related questions and advice as well as services relating to mergers and the purchase of undertakings; k) Transactions in precious metals and stones; l) Acquisition of financial holdings in companies; m) Marketing of insurance contracts; n) Credit reference services; o) Safe custody services; p) Other similar operations not forbidden to them by law.
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LOCAL UNIT: An enterprise or part thereof (e.g. a workshop, factory, warehouse, office, mine or depot) situated in a geographically identified place. At or from this place economic activity is carried out for which ' save for certain exceptions ' one or more persons work (even if only part-time) for one and the same enterprise.
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SAVINGS BANKS: Credit institutions whose purpose is to engage in certain banking business, namely receiving, in the form of demand deposits, redeemable at notice or with agreed maturity, the available liquid assets that they invest in loans and other securities transactions allowed to them, and also supplying those banking services that are compatible with their nature and not expressly forbidden to them by law.
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REFERENCE PERIOD: Period to which the information refers and which may be a specific day or a time interval (month, fiscal year, calendar year, among others).
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