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- Sareb
See Asset Management Company for Assets Arising from Bank Restructuring
- Scope 1 emissions
Direct greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions that occur from sources owned or controlled by the company (e.g., fuel, natural gas).
- Scope 2 emissions
Indirect greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions that are produced from the energy purchased by the company (e.g., electricity).
- Scope 3 emissions
Indirect greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions that are produced by activities along the value chain (i.e., by the company’s customers or suppliers) and are generated by sources that are neither owned nor controlled by the company.
- SDDS
Acronym corresponding to the IMF’s Special Data Dissemination Standard
- SDRs
- Secondary income (Balance of Payments)
Current transfers (in cash or in kind) between residents and non-residents. By exclusion, all transfers that are not capital transfers are included. Current transfers are mainly aimed at financing consumption (goods and services), while capital transfers are primarily aimed at financing investment.
- Sectorization of the economy
Classification of the institutional units that make up an economy into different sectors.
- Securities settlement systems
Securities clearing and settlement systems settle transactions in euros in cash accounts opened in the books of central banks.
In Spain, the securities clearing and settlement systems are integrated into the company 'Bolsas y Mercados Españoles, Sociedad Holding de Mercados y Sistemas Financieros, S.A.' (BME).
- SEPE
Acronym for the Spanish State Public Employment Service (website
). - Services PMI
Acronym for Purchasing Managers’ Index, an activity index for the services sector that is calculated based on the weighted results of the survey of purchasing managers.
- SGP
- Short-term loans
Loan with an original maturity of less than one year, including loans repayable on demand, that is, at the lender’s request.
- SICAV
See Variable capital investment companies
- SLI
- Social Security administrations
Institutional sector that includes the General Treasury and other managing entities (including mutual insurance companies for work accidents and occupational diseases), the State Public Employment Service, and the Wage Guarantee Fund.
- Spanish Foreign Exchange Institute (IEME)
An organization created in August 1939 to centralize all competencies in exchange control and thus manage foreign monetary policy. In 1973, it was declared extinct, although in 1969 it had already transferred its operational functions to the Banco de España.
- SPE
- Special Drawing Rights (SDRs)
Special Drawing Rights (SDRs) are international reserve assets created by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), which allocates them to its members to allow them to increase their reserve assets.
- Special purpose entities
Special purpose entities (SPEs) are legal entities with minimal employment, physical presence, and production in the economy where they are established. They are created to obtain specific advantages offered by the host jurisdiction, are controlled by non-residents, and their transactions are almost entirely with non-residents.
- Specialised Lending Institutions
Companies that, without being considered credit institutions and with prior authorization from the Minister of Economy and Competitiveness, professionally engage in one or more of the following activities: granting loans and credits, factoring, with or without recourse, and complementary activities to this, financial leasing, granting guarantees and warranties, and subscribing to similar commitments, and granting reverse mortgages.
- Stability and Growth Pact
Agreement among the European Union (EU) Member States to commit to maintaining sound public finances as a means to strengthen the conditions for achieving price stability and strong, sustainable growth that fosters job creation. The Stability and Growth Pact sets a reference value for the public deficit (3% of GDP) and public debt (60% of GDP).
- State's net lending (+) or borrowing (-)
In National Accounting terms, it is the resulting difference between the State’s resources and uses, both current and capital. It can also be defined as the difference between the net change in financial assets and the net change in the State’s liabilities.
- Statistical table
A double-entry format representation of a set of statistical data, where the rows and columns represent the cross variables or dimensions (with time possibly being one of them), and the inner cells contain the cross values of these variables.
- Symbols used in the statistical publications of the Banco de España
- —: Amount equal to zero, absence of the considered phenomenon, or lack of significance of a variation when expressed in growth rates
- …: Data not available
- 0.0: Amount less than half of the last digit indicated in the series
- A: Advance
- m: Basic growth rate of period j
- M: Refers to annual data (1970 M) or quarterly data, indicating that these are averages of the monthly data for the year or quarter, and for monthly, ten-day, or weekly data series, that these are averages of daily data for those periods
- me: m of € / Millions of euros
- mm: Billions
- P: Placed after a date [Jan (P)], indicates that all corresponding figures are provisional. Placed after a figure, indicates that only this figure is provisional
- R: Refers to a year or month (99 R), indicates that there is a discontinuity between the data of that period and the next
- SD: Seasonally adjusted series
- SO: Original series
- T: Rate of the moving average of i terms, with j lag, converted to an annual rate
- Systemically important investment firms
Investment service companies that provide key services in the market and in the investment banking sector and, consequently, are exposed to credit and market risk in a manner similar to credit institutions
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