Investment service companies

Statistics Finland has been publishing quarterly and annual financial statement statistics on investment service companies since the situation at year-end 1998. An investment service company is an institution that practises the stockbroking, market making, securities trading, emission organising and investment management activities in Finland specified in the Investment Service Company Act, and has an investment service licence required by the Act. Investment service company activities are practised in Finland by domestic investment service companies and by branch offices of foreign investment service companies operating in Finland.