Solomon Islands - 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 Solomon Islands was 10.19 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 18 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 10.73 in 2010 and a minimum value of 2.38 in 2002.

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
2002 2.38
2003 4.08
2004 3.93
2005 4.66
2006 4.76
2007 4.83
2008 4.80
2009 6.17
2010 10.73
2011 10.65
2012 9.86
2013 10.37
2014 10.68
2015 10.01
2016 9.64
2017 10.23
2018 10.28
2019 10.11
2020 10.19

Classification

Topic: Financial Sector Indicators

Sub-Topic: Interest rates