European Central Bank — Internal Liquidity Management (ILM)
Internal Liquidity Management (ILM) — official time series from the European Central Bank Data Portal, published as the ILM dataflow over SDMX 2.1 REST. One endpoint serves XML (SDMX-ML), CSV (?format=csvdata) and JSON (?format=jsondata); extract exactly the series you need with a key path and startPeriod / endPeriod / lastNObservations filters. Browse and chart the same series on the ECB Data Portal.
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Data schema (28 fields)
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| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| FREQFrequency | dimension | 3 codes (e.g. Daily, Monthly, Weekly) |
| REF_AREAReference area | dimension | 23 codes (e.g. Euro area (changing composition), European Central Bank (ECB), Austria) |
| BS_REP_SECTORBS reference sector breakdown | dimension | 3 codes (e.g. Eurosystem, ECB, NCBs) |
| BS_ITEMBalance sheet item | dimension | 75 codes (e.g. Marginal lending facility, Benchmark (1st), Excess liquidity) |
| COUNT_AREACounterpart area | dimension | 3 codes (e.g. Euro area (changing composition), World not allocated (geographically), Extra Euro area) |
| CURRENCY_TRANSCurrency of transaction | dimension | 5 codes (e.g. Euro, All currencies combined, Not applicable) |
| TIME_PERIODTime period or range | time | Time dimension — filter with startPeriod / endPeriod query params. |
| OBS_VALUEObservation value | number | The observed numeric value for each cell. |
| TIME_FORMATTime format code | attribute | — |
| BREAKS | attribute | — |
| COLLECTIONCollection indicator | attribute | — |
| COMPILING_ORGCompiling organisation | attribute | — |
| DISS_ORGData dissemination organisation | attribute | — |
| PUBL_ECBSource publication (ECB only) | attribute | — |
| PUBL_MUSource publication (Euro area only) | attribute | — |
| PUBL_PUBLICSource publication (public) | attribute | — |
| AGG_EQUNAggregation equations | attribute | — |
| COMPILATION | attribute | — |
| COVERAGE | attribute | — |
| DECIMALS | attribute | — |
| SOURCE_AGENCY | attribute | — |
| TITLE | attribute | — |
| TITLE_COMPLTitle complement | attribute | — |
| UNIT | attribute | — |
| UNIT_MULTUnit multiplier | attribute | — |
| OBS_STATUSObservation status | attribute | — |
| OBS_CONFObservation confidentiality | attribute | — |
| OBS_PRE_BREAKPre-break observation value | attribute | — |
Schema captured from sdmx 1 month ago.
Query the data
Pick columns and a sort, then fetch a live preview straight from the source. Choose an API-filterable column (marked ▾) under “Where” to pick from its list of values.
Sample data (5 records)
| FREQ | REF_AREA | BS_REP_SECTOR | BS_ITEM | COUNT_AREA | CURRENCY_TRANS | TIME_PERIOD | OBS_VALUE |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| D | U2 | C | A050500 | U2 | EUR | 2026-07-23 | 84.25026081 |
| D | U2 | C | BMK1 | U2 | EUR | 2020-12-07 | -1747000 |
| D | U2 | C | EXLIQ | U2 | EUR | 2026-07-23 | 2157434 |
| D | U2 | C | FAAF1 | Z5 | Z01 | 2025-07-21 | 1183900 |
| D | U2 | C | FAAF2 | Z5 | Z01 | 2025-04-17 | 1203500 |
Live sample captured at profiling time — values may have changed upstream.
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curl -s 'https://data-api.ecb.europa.eu/service/dataflow/ECB' -H 'Accept: application/vnd.sdmx.structure+xml;version=2.1'All dataflows (datasets) published by this agency, as SDMX-ML.
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