European Central Bank — Survey on credit terms and conditions in euro-denominated securities financing and over-the-counter derivatives markets (SESFOD)

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Survey on credit terms and conditions in euro-denominated securities financing and over-the-counter derivatives markets (SESFOD) — official time series from the European Central Bank Data Portal, published as the SESFOD 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 (27 fields)

Filterable via the API (11)

FREQREF_AREASECTIONSUBSECTIONQUESTION_TOPICQUESTION_TOPIC_DETAILCOUNTERPARTY_TYPEASSET_INSTR_TYPESESFOD_ANSWERANSWER_TYPETIME_PERIOD

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Field	Type	Description
FREQFrequency	dimension	1 codes (e.g. Quarterly)
REF_AREAReference area	dimension	1 codes (e.g. Euro area (Member States and Institutions of the Euro Area) changing composition)
SECTION	dimension	3 codes (e.g. General Credit Items, Non-centrally cleared OTC derivatives, Securities financing)
SUBSECTION	dimension	11 codes (e.g. Realised and expected changes in price and non-price credit terms, Reasons for changes in price and non-price credit terms, Resources and attention to the management of concentrated credit exposures)
QUESTION_TOPICQuestion topic for SESFOD	dimension	28 codes (e.g. Changes, Expected changes, B. Possible reasons for easing - Top reason)
QUESTION_TOPIC_DETAILDetailed question topic for SESFOD	dimension	25 codes (e.g. Non-price terms, Overall, Price terms)
COUNTERPARTY_TYPECounter part type for SESFOD	dimension	9 codes (e.g. All counterparties, Banks and dealers, Hedge funds)
ASSET_INSTR_TYPEAsses or instrument type for SESFOD	dimension	19 codes (e.g. None, Credit referencing corporates, Commodity)
SESFOD_ANSWERAnswer in SESFOD	dimension	33 codes (e.g. Total responses, Eased considerably, Eased somewhat)
ANSWER_TYPEAnswer type for SESFOD	dimension	2 codes (e.g. Number of respondents, Percentage of respondents)
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	—
COMPILATION	attribute	—
DECIMALS	attribute	—
TITLE	attribute	—
TITLE_COMPLTitle complement	attribute	—
UNIT	attribute	—
UNIT_MULTUnit multiplier	attribute	—
OBS_STATUSObservation status	attribute	—
CONF_STATUSConfidentiality status	attribute	—
PRE_BREAK_VALUE	attribute	—
COMMENT_OBSComments to the observation value	attribute	—

Schema captured from sdmx 1 month ago.

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Sample data (5 records)

Record 1FREQ: Q · SECTION: GCT

{
  "FREQ": "Q",
  "SECTION": "GCT",
  "REF_AREA": "U2",
  "OBS_VALUE": 24,
  "SUBSECTION": "G1",
  "ANSWER_TYPE": "NR",
  "TIME_PERIOD": "2025-Q4",
  "SESFOD_ANSWER": "ALL",
  "QUESTION_TOPIC": "C",
  "ASSET_INSTR_TYPE": "Z",
  "COUNTERPARTY_TYPE": "ALL",
  "QUESTION_TOPIC_DETAIL": "NP"
}

Record 2FREQ: Q · SECTION: GCT

{
  "FREQ": "Q",
  "SECTION": "GCT",
  "REF_AREA": "U2",
  "OBS_VALUE": 100,
  "SUBSECTION": "G1",
  "ANSWER_TYPE": "PCT",
  "TIME_PERIOD": "2025-Q4",
  "SESFOD_ANSWER": "ALL",
  "QUESTION_TOPIC": "C",
  "ASSET_INSTR_TYPE": "Z",
  "COUNTERPARTY_TYPE": "ALL",
  "QUESTION_TOPIC_DETAIL": "NP"
}

Record 3FREQ: Q · SECTION: GCT

{
  "FREQ": "Q",
  "SECTION": "GCT",
  "REF_AREA": "U2",
  "OBS_VALUE": 0,
  "SUBSECTION": "G1",
  "ANSWER_TYPE": "NR",
  "TIME_PERIOD": "2025-Q4",
  "SESFOD_ANSWER": "EC",
  "QUESTION_TOPIC": "C",
  "ASSET_INSTR_TYPE": "Z",
  "COUNTERPARTY_TYPE": "ALL",
  "QUESTION_TOPIC_DETAIL": "NP"
}

Record 4FREQ: Q · SECTION: GCT

{
  "FREQ": "Q",
  "SECTION": "GCT",
  "REF_AREA": "U2",
  "OBS_VALUE": 0,
  "SUBSECTION": "G1",
  "ANSWER_TYPE": "PCT",
  "TIME_PERIOD": "2025-Q4",
  "SESFOD_ANSWER": "EC",
  "QUESTION_TOPIC": "C",
  "ASSET_INSTR_TYPE": "Z",
  "COUNTERPARTY_TYPE": "ALL",
  "QUESTION_TOPIC_DETAIL": "NP"
}

Record 5FREQ: Q · SECTION: GCT

{
  "FREQ": "Q",
  "SECTION": "GCT",
  "REF_AREA": "U2",
  "OBS_VALUE": 0,
  "SUBSECTION": "G1",
  "ANSWER_TYPE": "NR",
  "TIME_PERIOD": "2025-Q4",
  "SESFOD_ANSWER": "ES",
  "QUESTION_TOPIC": "C",
  "ASSET_INSTR_TYPE": "Z",
  "COUNTERPARTY_TYPE": "ALL",
  "QUESTION_TOPIC_DETAIL": "NP"
}

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