[December 12, 2012] “the European Central Bank (ECB) is publishing the June-2012 Consolidated Banking Data (CBD), a data set that provides various statistics about the EU banking system on consolidated basis. It includes statistics on both individual EU Member States and the EU as a whole. It refers to 430 banking groups together with 4,216 stand-alone credit institutions, including data for 996 foreign-controlled branches and subsidiaries operating in the EU. This data set includes profitability and efficiency indicators, balance sheet indicators relating to banks’ funding sources, non-performing loans developments as well as solvency ratios. This semi-annual dataset comprises selected data points taken from the more comprehensive annual data collection published on http://sdw.ecb.europa.eu/browse.do?node=71390 (reference data) and http://www.ecb.europa.eu/press/pr/date/2012/html/pr120823.en.html (press release).”