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In forceCredit institutions: public financial statements, Circular 4/2017 (national)Last checked 11 November 2026

Public individual financial statements (PI 1 to PI 10, PS 1)

A regulatory return listed by the Banco de España (BdE), Spain.

The primary public individual financial statements (balance sheet, profit or loss, recognised income and expense, changes in equity and cash flows) that credit institutions send to the Bank for publication, plus public statements on refinancing, real estate lending, foreclosed assets and concentration of exposures, and the PS 1 activity statement of branches of credit institutions from the European Economic Area (rule 4 of Circular 4/2017). Source

Official title: Estados financieros públicos individuales (PI 1 a PI 10 y PS 1)

The facts

Who files
Credit institutions; EEA branches send PS 1 instead (rule 4 of Circular 4/2017). Source
How often
ICO, banks, savings banks and non-EEA branches send the balance sheet monthly, the profit or loss and the recognised income and expense quarterly, and the changes in equity and cash flows annually; credit cooperatives send all primary statements quarterly except those last two, which are annual. EEA branches send balance sheet data monthly, profit or loss quarterly and the rest annually. The other public statements are sent semi-annually (rule 4 of Circular 4/2017, 2017 text). Source
Deadline
Primary statements by day 20 of the following month; the semi-annual statements by the end of the month after the data date (rule 4.3 and 4.6 of Circular 4/2017). Source
Format
XBRL-XML. XBRL-XML file built on the Bank's own taxonomy, sent through the SIF system (web upload or signed and encrypted email to correo@procesos.bde.es) with a Banco de España electronic certificate; the file names the reporting module and lists the statements sent in a preamble (I.E. 2008.02). Taxonomy 'publicos_2023_03' (public statements). Rule 72.6 of Circular 4/2017 requires the primary public statements, except monthly ones not at quarter end, to be signed electronically by the chief executive or another authorised senior manager. Source
How it is filed
Filing routes recorded for the BdE: SIF (Sistema de Intercambio de Información Financiera); Banco de España Virtual Office (Sede Electrónica): 'Envío de documentación financiera' (procedure ES_BDE_C164_P90); Editran and ITW file transfer (Central Credit Register and its complementary statements); CRGWWW; EXB: register of branch offices of supervised entities. See how firms file with the BdE.
Status
In force
Legal basis
Group
Credit institutions: public financial statements, Circular 4/2017 (national)

Templates (11)

The tables and forms inside the return. Plain name first, the BdE's code in brackets.

  • Public individual balance sheet (PI 1)
  • Public individual profit or loss account (PI 2)
  • Public individual statement of recognised income and expense (PI 3)
  • Public individual statement of total changes in equity (PI 4)
  • Public individual statement of cash flows (PI 5)
  • Refinancing and restructuring (PI 6)
  • Financing for construction, real estate development and house purchase (business in Spain) (PI 7)
  • Assets foreclosed or received in payment of debts (business in Spain) (PI 8)
  • Distribution of loans to customers by activity (PI 9)
  • Concentration of exposures by activity and geographical area (PI 10)
  • Information on branches in Spain of credit institutions with head office in the European Economic Area (PS 1)

Statement level; the Bank's workbook (March 2023) splits them into 21 tables, with a state number for each (for example PI 1-1 is [2701]). Source

Validation rules

382 rules, as counted from the BdE's published material. They are written for people to read; software cannot run them as published. Source

How they are written: PDF report of cross-checks ('Informe de cuadres y relaciones' or 'Correlaciones y cuadres') giving each rule code, its number of evaluations, tolerance and formula.

Under I.E. 2008.02, statements that fail the validations are, as a general rule, rejected automatically and treated as not filed; part of the checks are also published in XBRL in the Bank's taxonomies.

The rules, on bde.es

How they were counted

Distinct rule codes listed in 'PI_PS_Publicos_individuales_Cuadres.pdf' (file dated 2026-07-06 by the server), each shown with its number of evaluations and its formula; 67 rule codes whose validity period ended before 11 November 2026 were left out (449 listed in all).

Counts are in the BdE's own unit, so they are not comparable with other regulators' counts.

Public data

Published firm by firm. The Bank publishes the primary public financial statements entity by entity in web applications, quarterly for credit institutions (from March 2018), with downloads in XBRL, PDF and Excel (rule 4 of Circular 4/2017 gives the Bank the task of disseminating them). Source

Where it is published (Web application with XBRL, PDF and Excel downloads)

  • Primary public financial statements (web applications)

    Firm by firm · Web applications with XBRL, PDF and Excel downloads

    Entity-by-entity individual and consolidated primary public financial statements (balance sheet, income statement, recognised income and expense, changes in equity, cash flows): quarterly for credit institutions from March 2018, annual for specialised lending institutions, payment institutions and e-money institutions. Up to two entities can be shown at a time and the data for all entities can be downloaded. Source

Official documents (8)

The BdE's own files, with the size and SHA-256 fingerprint of each as downloaded on 11 November 2026, so anyone can tell whether a copy is the same version.

Sources

Every page and document this return's facts were read from.

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Last checked 11 November 2026.