Loans by size of firms 2020Jul

Published on 10 September 2020


  • At the end of July 2020, the outstanding amount of drawn credit reaches 1,169.5 billion euros, up by +11.8% year-on-year, after a rise of +11.3% between June 2019 and June 2020.

  • Credit growth stands at +17.2% for SMEs, +9.3% for intermediate-sized companies and +5.5% for large companies.

  • The growth of credit is especially driven by the accommodation and food service activities (+26.8%), the advisory and business support activities (+23.9%) and transportation and storage (+22.8%). The weakest growth is reported in agriculture, forestry and fishing (+5.0%) and real estate activities (+6.1%).

  • The average interest rate on new loans to NFCs of 1 million euros or less continues to rise in July (1.20%, up from 0.93% in June and 0.62% in May), while remaining below first-quarter levels. The interest rate on loans of over 1 million euros is stable at 1.08%.

Outstanding amounts of loans to resident enterprises by size (*)
(Outstanding amounts in EUR Bn, annual growth rate in %)
Number of enterprises (**) Outstanding amounts Drawn credits

annual growth rate
July 20 July 20 July 20/July 19 June 20/June 19
SME 1,265,047 506.1 17.2 15.4
ISE 6,087 301.1 9.3 9.8
Large Firms 286 171.6 5.5 6.3
Total
(exc. non-trading real estate companies and others)
1,271,420 978.8 12.5 11.9
non-trading real estate companies and others (see Additional) 614,546 190.7 8.0 8.5
All enterprises 1,885,966 1,169.5 11.8 11.3
(*) inc. sole proprietors
(**) LME definition, with loans outstanding amounts above 25000 euros
Outstanding amounts of loans to resident enterprises by type of credit and by sector
(Outstanding amounts in EUR Bn, annual growth rate in %)
Drawn credits Drawn and undrawn credits
Outstanding amounts Annual growth rates Outstanding amounts Annual growth rate
July 20 July 20/July 19 July 20 July 2020/July 2019
Agriculture, forestry and fishing (AZ) 57.6 5.0 65.2 4.3
Industry (BE) 150.8 11.4 258.7 14.1
- inc. Manufacturing (C) 116.1 10.9 195.0 12.8
Construction (FZ) 67.9 16.8 103.7 16.1
Wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles (G) 171.6 15.3 240.3 16.4
Transportation and storage (H) 44.8 22.8 56.8 20.5
Accommodation and food service activities (I) 42.8 26.8 47.7 23.0
Information and communication (JZ) 26.0 13.8 49.7 0.2
Real estate activities (LZ) 454.5 6.1 497.0 5.4
Advisory and Business support activities (MN) 76.6 23.9 96.4 20.1

Education, human health and social work services, Arts, entertainment and recreation, Other service activities (P to S)
55.0 14.0 62.2 12.6
Holdings 21.8 25.4 26.9 34.2
Total 1,169.5 11.8 1,504.6 11.7
Interest rates on new loans to non-financial corporations (exc. overdraft)
(Effective interest rates in the narrow sense, in percentages)
juil. 2019 Feb- 2020 Mar-2020 Apr- 2020 May-2020 Jun-2020 (a) juil. 2020 (b)
- loans < or = 1 million euros 1.60 1.49 1.58 0.78 0.62 0.93 1.20
- loans > 1 million euros 1.51 1.20 1.18 1.00 0.86 1.08 1.08
(a) Revised
(b) Provisional
Outstanding amounts of credit
(drawn credit, in EUR Bn (*))
(*) see Additional information
Additional information
The outstanding amounts of credit in this publication are those collected by the central credit register, i.e. of a unit amount of more than 25,000 euros. These outstanding amounts include drawn credits, which means those actually used, and the undrawn credits, unused lines of credit. Individual data are grouped according to the size (larges firms, intermediate-sized enterprise - ISE and small and medium-sized enterprise - SME) and the sector of businesses. Businesses that cannot be assigned in a size category according to the criteria of the LME (Loi de Modernisation de l'économie) are included in the category "non-trading real estate companies and others".

Additional data on SMEs, interest rates by size of enterprises, and share of less than 3 year old enterprises (excl. sole proprietors) in the total of enterprises, are available at the following address :
http://webstat.banque-france.fr/fr/browse.do?node=5384417
Outstanding amounts of credit to micro-enterprises (incl. sole proprietors), come from another data collection and are available at the following address:
http://webstat.banque-france.fr/fr/browse.do?node=5384934

Non-financial corporations include all enterprises with as main activity the market production of goods and non-financial services, excluding sole proprietors.

Interest rates in this publication are those to new credits distributed by resident credit institutions to French non-financial corporations. The interest rates are effective rates in the narrow sense. They correspond to the interest component of the Annual Percentage Rate (TEG).
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Updated on 9 September 2020