Definition: Financial auxiliaries

European System of Accounts (ESA)

All financial corporations and quasi-corporations which are principally engaged in activities closely related to financial intermediation but which are not financial intermediaries themselves (ESA 2010).

The sub-sector financial auxiliaries consists of all financial corporations and quasi-corporations which are principally engaged in auxiliary financial activities, that is to say activities closely related to financial intermediation but which are not financial intermediation themselves (ESA 1995) .