Survey documents

Securities holdings

Name of survey
WEBM, WEBJ
Forms
WBxx (Forms are only available in German and French)
Coverage
Securities held in open customer custody accounts; breakdown by category of securities (in particular money market paper, medium-term bank-issued notes, bonds, shares, units in collective capital investment schemes, structured products, other securities), by origin of the issuer (resident or non-resident) and by currency; breakdown of custody account holders by economic sector and by principal place of business or residence in Switzerland or abroad; stock of borrowed securities
Type of survey
Partial sample survey; full sample survey
Reporting institutions
WEBM -> Banks, institutions with a special field of business and financial market infrastructures, whose custody account holdings exceed CHF 4.3 billion, report on a monthly basis;
WEBJ -> All other banks, institutions with a special field of business and financial market infrastructures report once a year within the context of the comprehensive year-end statistics
The reporting institutions are invited by the National Bank to participate in the survey.
Reporting entity
Bank office
Frequency
WEBM: monthly;
WEBJ: annually
Deadline
WEBM: 25 days;
WEBJ: 3 months