In line with the Pillar III reporting obligations, the financial institutions are disclosing company-related information in a tabular format according to the specific sector.

Nevertheless, a Eurostat publication on Statistical Disclosure Control (a chapter from the European Business Statistics Manual) notes that “it is always required that the value in the table represents at least 3 observations. Values based on 1 or 2 observations are confidential.”

Moreover, the publication also states that “in business statistics, the distribution of the target variable is often skewed: there are only a few big companies and also within a particular cell, 1 or 2 companies might be dominant. This would make it easy to disclose the information on the dominant company with a high level of accuracy. For this reason also, cells with dominant companies are confidential.” The Eurostat report provides a table with confidentiality rules that needs to be conform with when publishing company-related data (refer to attached document).