ECB lending rate: loans to corporations
Monthly bank lending rate on new loans to euro-area non-financial corporations, from the ECB's MFI interest rate statistics (dataflow MIR). The series is the annualised agreed rate on new business, loans other than revolving loans and overdrafts (A2A), all original maturities, covering the euro area (U2), published monthly from 2000-01. It tracks the cost of bank borrowing for firms — the headline corporate-lending indicator in the ECB's monthly MFI interest rate press release. European Central Bank statistics; reuse is free with attribution under the ESCB statistics reuse policy. Units: percent per annum.
- Source
- European Central Bank
- Rows
- 319
- Columns
- 4
- Source cadence
- Monthly
- Last refreshed
- Sep 23, 2026
- Theme
- markets
| Column | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| date | date | Observation period (the TIME_PERIOD column of the ECB SDMX-CSV response). Daily series use YYYY-MM-DD; monthly series use YYYY-MM, stored as the first day of the month. |
| series_id | string | SDMX series key (the KEY column), e.g. 'EXR.D.USD.EUR.SP00.A': the unique identifier of the series in the ECB Statistical Data Warehouse. |
| series_label | string | Series title published by the ECB (the TITLE column of the SDMX-CSV response), e.g. 'US dollar/Euro ECB reference exchange rate'. |
| value | float | Observed value for the series and period (the OBS_VALUE column). Units follow the series definition (exchange rates per euro, effective exchange rate index points, annual growth rate in percent for the monetary aggregates, or annualised agreed rate in percent per annum for the MFI lending rates). Missing observations are null. |
First 10 sample rows — a preview, not the complete dataset.
| date | series_id | series_label | value |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000-01-01 | MIR.M.U2.B.A2A.A.R.A.2240.EUR.N | Bank interest rates - loans to corporations (new business) | 5 |
| 2000-02-01 | MIR.M.U2.B.A2A.A.R.A.2240.EUR.N | Bank interest rates - loans to corporations (new business) | 5.17 |
| 2000-03-01 | MIR.M.U2.B.A2A.A.R.A.2240.EUR.N | Bank interest rates - loans to corporations (new business) | 5.2 |
| 2000-04-01 | MIR.M.U2.B.A2A.A.R.A.2240.EUR.N | Bank interest rates - loans to corporations (new business) | 5.27 |
| 2000-05-01 | MIR.M.U2.B.A2A.A.R.A.2240.EUR.N | Bank interest rates - loans to corporations (new business) | 5.56 |
| 2000-06-01 | MIR.M.U2.B.A2A.A.R.A.2240.EUR.N | Bank interest rates - loans to corporations (new business) | 5.65 |
| 2000-07-01 | MIR.M.U2.B.A2A.A.R.A.2240.EUR.N | Bank interest rates - loans to corporations (new business) | 5.74 |
| 2000-08-01 | MIR.M.U2.B.A2A.A.R.A.2240.EUR.N | Bank interest rates - loans to corporations (new business) | 5.88 |
| 2000-09-01 | MIR.M.U2.B.A2A.A.R.A.2240.EUR.N | Bank interest rates - loans to corporations (new business) | 5.87 |
| 2000-10-01 | MIR.M.U2.B.A2A.A.R.A.2240.EUR.N | Bank interest rates - loans to corporations (new business) | 5.94 |
Profiled Sep 23, 2026 from snapshot 20260923T192933Z-0287dd2d5ead
Measured- Completeness
- 100%
- Rows
- 319
- Columns
- 4
- Columns with gaps
- 0
| Column | Missing | Distinct | Range | Distribution |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| datedate | 0% | 323 | Jan 1, 2000 → Jul 1, 2026 | — |
| series_idvarchar | 0% | 1 | — |
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| series_labelvarchar | 0% | 1 | — |
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| valuedouble | 0% | 189 | 1.22 → 5.98median 3.26 | 8 outside 1st–99th percentile |
- Current
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319 rows · first snapshot
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curl "https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/ecb/ecb_lending_rate_corporations" | jq '{title, rows, columns_count, license}'import requests
ds = requests.get("https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/ecb/ecb_lending_rate_corporations").json()
print(ds["title"], ds["rows"], "rows")
# Sample rows for an LLM context window
for row in ds.get("sample_rows", [])[:5]:
print(row)API endpoint: https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/ecb/ecb_lending_rate_corporations
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European Central Bank. (2026). ECB lending rate: loans to corporations [Data set, snapshot 20260923T192933Z-0287dd2d5ead, sha256 0287dd2d5ead]. Datazimuts. Retrieved 2026-09-23, from https://datazimuts.com/en/datasets/ecb/ecb_lending_rate_corporations?snapshot=20260923T192933Z-0287dd2d5ead
@misc{dz_ecb_ecb_lending_rate_corporations_0287dd2d,
title = {{ECB lending rate: loans to corporations}},
author = {{European Central Bank}},
year = {2026},
publisher = {Datazimuts},
howpublished = {\url{https://datazimuts.com/en/datasets/ecb/ecb_lending_rate_corporations?snapshot=20260923T192933Z-0287dd2d5ead}},
note = {Snapshot 20260923T192933Z-0287dd2d5ead, sha256 0287dd2d5eadedb9ca6f405165040e3b1c44098131cdf1c9148bb17e520a48f5; accessed 2026-09-23}
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