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In forcePayment and e-money institutions: periodic reporting (national)Last checked 11 November 2026

Periodic reporting scheme of payment institutions (PI)

A regulatory return listed by the National Bank of Belgium (NBB), Belgium.

The periodic financial and solvency reporting of payment institutions under Article 77 of the Act of 11 March 2018: balance sheet, income statement, client funds, payment transaction figures, cross-border activity, safeguarding of client funds, own funds and, for institutions doing foreign exchange, foreign exchange statistics. Circular NBB_2025_21 replaces NBB_2018_31 from 1 January 2026 and simplifies tables 1.5 (no geographic or per-service breakdown, table 1.5.3 dropped, 1.5.4 annual). Source

Official title: Circulaire NBB_2025_21 relative au schéma de reporting périodique des établissements de paiement

The facts

Who files
Payment institutions under Belgian law (Article 2, 8° of the Act of 11 March 2018), registered account information service providers (Article 89) and limited payment institutions (Article 82). Source
How often
Quarterly, except the appropriation account (1.3), payment initiation and account information statistics (1.5.4), professional indemnity cover (1.5.5) and cross-border activity (1.6), which are annual; the notes to the annual accounts are sent yearly. Source
Deadline
At the latest on the first working day of the second calendar month after the reporting date; notes to the annual accounts fifteen days before the general meeting. First report under the new circular by 30 April 2026. Source
Format
XML, CSV, Web form. OneGate domain MBS (report PI from 2026-03-01): manual entry, XML or CSV import per form, or XML upload, following the PI and ELMI protocol (v3.0); amounts in euros. Source
How it is filed
Filing routes recorded for the NBB: OneGate; NBB Supervision. See how firms file with the NBB.
Status
In force
Legal basis
Group
Payment and e-money institutions: periodic reporting (national)

Templates (25)

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

  • Balance sheet after appropriation (1.1)
  • Income statement (1.2)
  • Appropriation account (annual) (1.3)
  • Third-party funds held and shown on the balance sheet (1.4)
  • Amount of transactions (EUR) (1.5.1)
  • Number of transactions (1.5.2)
  • Payment initiation and account information services (annual) (1.5.4)
  • Minimum amount of professional indemnity insurance or comparable guarantee (annual) (1.5.5)
  • Foreign payment services provided under freedom to provide services (annual) (1.6.1)
  • Foreign payment services via a foreign network of established agents (annual) (1.6.2)
  • Foreign payment services via a foreign network of agents under freedom to provide services (annual) (1.6.3)
  • Foreign payment services via an EU branch (annual) (1.6.4)
  • Total foreign payment services (annual) (1.6.5)
  • Detail of payment transactions in Belgium (annual) (1.6.6)
  • Segregated accounts holding client funds (1.7.1)
  • Non-segregated accounts used to process client funds (1.7.2)
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  • Approved money market funds safeguarding client funds (1.7.3)
  • Secure, liquid low-risk assets safeguarding client funds (1.7.4)
  • Insurance, guarantee or surety safeguarding client funds (1.7.5)
  • Total client funds held and attestations and conditions (1.7.6)
  • Solvency: own funds (2.1)
  • Solvency: data for the own funds requirement calculation method (A, B or C) (2.2)
  • Foreign exchange transactions: purchases (3.1)
  • Foreign exchange transactions: sales (3.2)
  • Overall statement of foreign exchange transactions (3.3)

Report states listed in Part 1 of the circular (payment institutions; names translated from French). Account information service providers (Part 2) and limited payment institutions (Part 3) report a reduced set. Source

Validation rules

The NBB publishes the checks it runs on this return. They could not be counted from the published material. They are written for people to read; software cannot run them as published. Source

How they are written: Excel rules file linked on the MBS XML page (not read).

The OneGate protocol for PI and ELMI gives an absolute tolerance of EUR 1,000 when applying the validation rules (except for percentages). The rules files on the MBS XML page are Excel files that could not be read.

The rules, on nbb.be

How they were counted

Not counted: the rules file (pi_v06.xlsx) could not be read (robots.txt disallows .xlsx).

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

Public data

No published data from this return was found. No data from this return published by the NBB was found on the pages checked. Source

Official documents (9)

The NBB'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.