Written answers
Tuesday, 4 October 2011
Department of Finance
Financial Institutions Regulation
8:00 pm
Michael McGrath (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)
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Question 145: To ask the Minister for Finance the number of entities now regulated by the Central Bank of Ireland; and if he will provide a breakdown of the different categories of entity. [27139/11]
Michael Noonan (Limerick City, Fine Gael)
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The information requested by the Deputy is set out in the Central Bank Annual Report and Annual Performance Statement, both published in May this Year.
A breakdown of the different categories of entities for 2010 is as follows:
| Credit Institutions (Including branches of overseas credit institutions) | 78 |
| Life Insurance Companies | 70 |
| Non-Life Insurance Companies | 152 |
| Reinsurance Companies | 115 |
| Investment Firms (MiFID)/Investment Business Firms | 168 |
| Retail Intermediaries | |
| - Multi Agency Intermediaries | 2,026 |
| - Authorised Advisors | 439 |
| - Insurance/Reinsurance Intermediaries | 3,774 |
| Mortgage Intermediaries authorizations granted/renewed | 1,829 |
| Collective Investment Schemes (including sub funds) | 4,743 |
| Fund Service Providers | 253 |
| Credit Unions | 409 |
| Money Transmitters and Bureaux de Change | 27 |
| Moneylenders | 46 |
| Regulated Market/Market Operator | 1 |
| Money Brokers | 6 |
| Retail Credit Firms | 18 |
| Home Reversion Firms | 2 |
| Payment Institutions | 10 |
| Total | 14,166 |
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