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In forcePayment institutions and electronic money institutions: payment statistics (EU, ECB)Last checked 13 November 2026

Payment statistics and fraud reporting (PAYSTS2)

A regulatory return listed by the Central Bank of Cyprus (CBC), Cyprus.

Statistics on payment transactions, instruments and fraud, collected under the EU's payment statistics regulation. The CBC's own instructions say they 'aim at providing a clear and consistent understanding of the statistical requirements to the PSPs'. Source

Official title: Instructions concerning the reporting of Payment Statistics

The facts

Who files
Resident Payment Service Providers (PSPs), a term that under PSD2 covers banks as well as payment institutions and electronic money institutions. Source
How often
Quarterly and semi-annual data, depending on the table. Source
Deadline
Not stated beyond a submission-calendar spreadsheet (PAY SUBMISSION_CALENDAR_ENGLISH_2027.xlsx) whose cell contents were not opened; see gaps. Source
Format
Excel. The CBC publishes its own PAYSTS2 Excel master templates (quarterly, semi-annual and semi-annual fraud) rather than an EBA/ECB XBRL taxonomy. Source
How it is filed
Filing routes recorded for the CBC: SSM Portal (Information Management System Portal, IMAS); ARTEMIS data exchange mechanism. See how firms file with the CBC.
Status
In force
Legal basis
Group
Payment institutions and electronic money institutions: payment statistics (EU, ECB)

Templates (0)

The library lists no templates for this return.

EU return: the data items are defined by Regulation (EU) 2020/2011 amending ECB/2013/43. See the library's EBA entry eba/psd-frp. The CBC publishes its own PAYSTS2 Excel workbooks: Quarter (6 data sheets tagged PAYSTS2_T9.01 to T9.06), Semi-Annual (34 data sheets) and Semi-Annual FRAUDULENT (27 data sheets); the cells read give only internal table codes, no plain-language titles. Source

Validation rules

No published validation rules were found for this return. The Guidance Notes document and the workbooks' Instructions sheets describe colour-coding for manual entry, drop-down selection and automated calculation, but no separate published list of validation rules was found. Source

Public data

Published only added up across firms. The CBC publishes half-yearly statistical releases on payment statistics and on payment fraud statistics for Cyprus, with euro-area comparisons; no individual PSP is named. Source

Where it is published (PDF statistical release)

Official documents (7)

The CBC's own files, with the size and SHA-256 fingerprint of each as downloaded on 13 November 2026, so anyone can tell whether a copy is the same version.

  • Instructions concerning the reporting of Payment Statistics

    Instructions · HTML

    States that the instructions were issued to resident Payment Service Providers under the amended Regulation (EU) 2020/2011 on payment statistics, which entered into force on 1 January 2022, and that the required data are quarterly and semi-annual.

  • PAYSTS2 Master Template - Quarter

    Template · XLSX · 1.9 MB

    6 data sheets (tagged PAYSTS2_T9.01 to T9.06), plus Index, Instructions and Codes sheets. The cells read give no plain-language title beyond these internal codes.

    SHA-256 47cc700fc7acshow in full47cc700fc7ac79da415a0d69de0a281552c90451d58b7fe8830ef8b277957ea3
  • PAYSTS2 Master Template Semi-Annual

    Template · XLSX · 3.3 MB · 14 July 2025

    34 data sheets, plus Index, Instructions and Codes sheets.

    SHA-256 3224cdfb4e71show in full3224cdfb4e71f49539d4ef869cedefab6586b385a57d1fd51ab86f782a125d0c
  • PAYSTS2 Master Template Semi-Annual FRAUDULENT

    Template · XLSX · 4.6 MB · 3 July 2025

    27 data sheets, plus Index, Instructions and Codes sheets.

    SHA-256 ca9586bc355fshow in fullca9586bc355f10b2beb2081c94baf27d7e151ff5bb1ccb1e6d64da83a119a1ee
  • Payment Institutions and Electronic Money Institutions: Supervision

    Guidance · HTML

    Names the governance and safeguarding-assets directives for PIs and EMIs (all currently Greek-only); no periodic prudential or financial return of the CBC's own is named here.

  • Statistical Release: Payment Statistics, second half of 2025

    Other · PDF · 566.1 KB · 22 July 2026

    Aggregate national statistics; no PSP is named.

    SHA-256 fb07443f0f92show in fullfb07443f0f92b7002b12b5db532eec11e1095f6dc0be765ccfbdd5be1ad62345
  • Payment Fraud Statistics, 2nd half 2025

    Other · PDF · 510.3 KB · 25 August 2026

    Aggregate national statistics; no PSP is named.

    SHA-256 f2f16bcd4c8ashow in fullf2f16bcd4c8a9d91e034aa0d8a2efdbe56133d69e2e824176ccbe99e98c5a845

Sources

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

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Source: Central Bank of Cyprus (CBC), https://www.centralbank.cy. Documents copied here are unchanged and are available free of charge on the CBC's website. The plain-English summaries are Line4's own; the CBC does not endorse this library.

Last checked 13 November 2026.