Macroprudential policy and financial stability glossary

mergers and acquisitions

See monetary financial institution (MFI)

Markets in Financial Instruments Directive

Markets in Financial Instruments Regulation

See money market fund (MMF)

money market statistical reporting

Financial institutions which together form the money-issuing sector of the euro area. These include the Eurosystem, resident credit institutions (as defined in EU law) and all other resident financial institutions whose business is to receive deposits and/or close substitutes for deposits from entities other than MFIs and, for their own account (at least in economic terms), to grant credit and/or invest in securities. The latter group consists predominantly of money market funds.

A collective investment undertaking that primarily invests in money market instruments and/or other transferable debt instruments with a residual maturity of up to one year, and/or that pursues a rate of return that approaches the interest rates on money market instruments.

Monetary Policy Committee