ECB deposit facility rate

ECB deposit facility rate data

The deposit facility lets banks place overnight deposits with the central bank. Its rate is a point value expressed in percent per annum. Narwhal returns the value as a decimal string, with EUR as the currency, deposit_facility_rate as the instrument and european_central_bank as the authority.

Recent rate changes

Read the date field returned with each ECB observation: effective_on means the date the rate took effect, while observed_on means the date the source recorded the value. Exactly one appears in each observation; announced_on is optional. For daily-row sources, the changes table shows only days when the value changed. Future effective dates never replace the current rate early.

Get the ECB deposit facility rate from the API

Access is available on every plan, including Free, with live data and one metered unit per request.

1. Request the latest rate Use DEU for the euro-area rate. Without a date, the endpoint selects the latest source observation at or before today UTC.
   Latest rate

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   curl "https://api.narwhalapi.com/v1/economics/DEU/central-bank/policy-rate" \
     -H "Authorization: Bearer $NARWHAL_API_KEY"

2. Look up a past date Supply date to retrieve the latest source observation at or before that date. Days without a source publication are not invented, so the returned observation can precede your requested date.
   Rate at a past date

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   curl "https://api.narwhalapi.com/v1/economics/DEU/central-bank/policy-rate?date=2023-01-01" \
     -H "Authorization: Bearer $NARWHAL_API_KEY"

3. Read the history Set start to choose the beginning of the history request. Results arrive oldest first. The default limit is 100, with a permitted range of 1 to 1000. Pass each next_cursor as cursor until it is null; cursors pin publications for 24 hours.
   History from the coverage start

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   curl "https://api.narwhalapi.com/v1/economics/DEU/central-bank/policy-rate/history?start=1999-01-01&limit=100" \
     -H "Authorization: Bearer $NARWHAL_API_KEY"

{
  "country": "DEU",
  "authority": "european_central_bank",
  "currency": "EUR",
  "instrument": "deposit_facility_rate",
  "rate_type": "point",
  "rate": "2.50",
  "qualifier": "exact",
  "unit": "percent",
  "effective_on": "1999-01-01"
}

History coverage

The European Central Bank is the source. Each member code returns the same ECB instrument, with history starting at that member's euro adoption. The examples use DEU.

How do I get the ECB deposit facility rate history?

Request the policy-rate history endpoint with a member code and your start date, then follow its pagination cursor. Use the optional end parameter to bound the period. A point-in-time request answers a different question: it returns the latest observation at or before a single date.

An expired cursor returns HTTP 409. Start a new history request to obtain a fresh cursor.

Source

Source: European Central Bank (ECB). This information is available free of charge on the ECB website: https://www.ecb.europa.eu.

Narwhal changed only the format. Values are served exactly as published.