Brazil - Risk premium on lending

Risk premium on lending (lending rate minus treasury bill rate, %)

The value for Risk premium on lending (lending rate minus treasury bill rate, %) in Brazil was 22.90 as of 2021. As the graph below shows, over the past 24 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 57.80 in 1998 and a minimum value of 18.40 in 2013.

Definition: Risk premium on lending is the interest rate charged by banks on loans to private sector customers minus the "risk free" treasury bill interest rate at which short-term government securities are issued or traded in the market. In some countries this spread may be negative, indicating that the market considers its best corporate clients to be lower risk than the government. The terms and conditions attached to lending rates differ by country, however, limiting their comparability.

Source: International Monetary Fund, International Financial Statistics database.

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Year Value
1997 53.40
1998 57.80
1999 54.06
2000 38.32
2001 37.56
2002 43.44
2003 44.98
2004 37.79
2005 36.62
2006 36.43
2007 32.22
2008 33.57
2009 34.95
2010 29.06
2011 32.22
2012 28.57
2013 18.40
2014 20.47
2015 29.80
2016 38.64
2017 37.86
2018 31.77
2019 31.30
2020 26.28
2021 22.90

Classification

Topic: Financial Sector Indicators

Sub-Topic: Interest rates