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Bank lending survey

BLS
Name of survey

BLSA, BLSI, BLSL, BLSM

Forms

Lxxx (Forms are only available in German and French)

Coverage

Information on changes in lending criteria, lending conditions and demand for loans; breakdown of borrowers into companies (and by company size) and private households, by type of lending, by residual maturity, and by domicile or residence of customers in Switzerland or abroad

Information on market interest rates in price-setting; broken down into different market rates or interest rate curves, and by type of loan

Type of survey

Partial sample survey

Reporting institutions

BLSI, BLSL, BLSM: Banks whose loans to domestic non-banks exceed CHF 8 billion;
BLSA: Swiss-controlled banks whose loans to non-banks abroad exceed CHF 10 billion

The reporting institutions are invited by the National Bank to participate in the survey.

Reporting entity

BLSI, BLSL, BLSM: bank office;
BLSA: group

Frequency

BLSA, BLSI, BLSM: quarterly;
BLSL: every two years

Deadline

20 days

Model type

coordinates-based

Delivery formats

XLSX, XML

Surveys

BLSA
Bank lending survey abroad Bank lending survey abroad
BLSI
Domestic bank lending survey Domestic bank lending survey
BLSL
Survey on the long-term development of domestic lending Survey on the long-term development of domestic lending
BLSM
Bank lending survey: Market interest rates in pricing Bank lending survey: Market interest rates in pricing

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