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This type includes:

  • financial service activities primarily concerned with making intermediation by incurring liabilities – in forms other than currency, deposits or close substitutes for deposits – where the granting of credit can take a variety of forms (e.g. loans, mortgages, credit cards), providing the following types of services:
  • granting of consumer credit by non-depository institutions
  • international trade financing
  • provision of long-term finance to industry
  • provision of banking-like services without a banking license, in cooperation with a licensed bank
  • money lending outside the banking system
  • credit granting by specialised non-depository institutions (e.g. for house purchases)
  • loan securitisation
  • factoring and supply chain financing activities
  • activities of pawnbrokers

This type excludes:

  • credit granting by specialised deposit-taking institutions, see 6419
  • financial leasing, see 649100
  • securitisation of assets other than loans, see 649900
  • operating leasing according to type of goods leased, see division 77
  • grant-giving activities by membership organisations, see 9499

In the 2008 version of NOGA, the activity of swiss mortgage bond institutions is classified under code 641901 - Banks with a special field of business.