Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis's Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED) program are working together to expand options for finding, accessing, and visualizing data from the Board's Data Download Program (DDP) in FRED. Learn more about the DDP and FRED partnership.

The Federal Reserve Board announced on March 25, 2024 the following changes to the Finance Companies (G.20) statistical release: Beginning with the April 2024 G.20 Finance Companies release, scheduled to be published in June, data for the Finance Companies New and Used Car Loan Terms of Credit series will be produced from Experian's Velocity Risk Report instead of Experian's Autocount Risk Report. The updated source data will affect only data from the first quarter of 2024 forward; previous data will not be affected. The type of measures shown will not change.

The Federal Reserve Board announced on August 1, 2023 the completion of the 2020 Census and Survey of Finance Companies. These data have been collected every five years to provide a comprehensive and accurate statistical snapshot of the financial information of the finance company industry. Collection and incorporation of these data were delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic. The statistical results of the 2020 survey will be incorporated in the June Finance Company (G.20) statistical release that will be published on August 31st. In addition, the survey results will be incorporated in the June Consumer Credit (G.19) and in the second quarter 2023 Financial Accounts of the United States (Z.1) statistical releases.

-In the DDP data for Finance Companies (G.20), data on "Non-recourse debt associated with financing activities" will stop being updated beyond March 2021. Historical data will continue to be available from December 2010 to March 2021. This data is an estimated subcomponent of "Other debt financing" and the Federal Reserve Board has not collected data on this measure since 2015.

On March 26, 2023, the Federal Reserve will make minor changes to the format of all XML files released through the Data Download Program (DDP). The changes include

On February 17, 2023, the formatting of the Historical Data table headers was updated for the Assets and Liabilities tables. The headers for "Bank Loans" and "Total Liabilities" were switched, and the headers for "Cash" and "Bank Loans" were not under the correct category headers. All data on the website and the Data Download Program (DDP) are correct and unaffected.

The Federal Reserve Board is conducting an online survey to collect data on online usage and consumption preferences of users of the Board's Data Download Program (DDP) website.

Visit our website to take the survey: https://boardofgovernors.gov1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_1I95KuU02McZSwS

The Federal Reserve Board is conducting focus groups to collect data on online usage and consumption preferences of users of the Board's Data Download Program (DDP) website.

Visit our Contact Us page, enter your information, and write "volunteer" in the comment box to sign up: https://www.federalreserve.gov/apps/ContactUs/feedback.aspx?refurl=/ddpfeedback/

Data from the February 19, 2019 release of the G.20 Finance Companies release were added to the Data Download program on February 27, 2019.

The Federal Reserve Board announced on Tuesday the following changes to the Finance Companies (G.20) statistical release. Starting with the November release, the G.20 release will no longer report the levels and flows of on-book loan and lease balances and off-book securitized loan and lease balances separately. Instead, the G.20 release will start reporting balances of total owned and managed receivables--the sum of on-book and off-book loan and lease balances. The changes are caused by the FASB 166/167 accounting rules implementation in 2010, which required the majority of off-book, securitized assets to be reported on-book. The remaining off-book asset balances have since diminished, with most of them becoming and remaining at zero in recent years.

The Federal Reserve Board announced on September 07, 2017 the completion of the 2015 Census and Survey of Finance Companies. These data have been collected every five years to provide a comprehensive and accurate statistical snapshot of the financial information of the finance company industry. The statistical results of the 2015 surveys will be incorporated in the July Finance Company (G.20) statistical release that will be published on Friday, September 29th. In addition, the survey results were incorporated in the July Consumer Credit (G.19) and the second quarter Financial Accounts of the United States (Z.1) statistical releases.

The February G.20, released on May 2nd, 2016, was reposted to correct a data error. On and off-book business equipment leases were revised back to 2014, and no other data were changed.

Starting in May 2015, publication of finance company auto loan terms of credit series will resume using a new source. The new series will be produced on a quarterly basis and will extend back to 2008Q1. The replaced finance company terms of credit series shown on prior G.20 releases will continue to be made available in the G.20 Data Download. The release will also contain revisions extending back to January 2006 that are primarily caused by updated seasonal factors.

The Board is publishing revisions to the finance company Assets and Liabilities estimates shown on the G.20 page. Revisions to the quarterly finance company Assets and Liabilities estimates begin in 2006 Q1 and are due to idiosyncratic methodology changes and the incorporation of 2010 finance companies survey data. Methodology changes include improved adjustments for panel attrition, panel growth, and loan sales and purchases by panel members. For more details on the survey and the revisions, see the documentation posted to the G.19 Consumer Credit revisions page on September 10, 2012, at http://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/g19/revisions/.

Finance companies data were revised back to December 2010 to incorporate the statistical results from the 2010 finance companies survey. For more details on the survey and the revisions, see the documentation posted on September 10, 2012 at http://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/g19/revisions/.

Finance Companies (G.20) release, in addition to the data currently reported on level of receivables outstanding, will now report data on the flow of receivables. The revised data will be made available in the April report, which will be released in the next several days.

The new flow data represent changes in the level of receivables due to economic and financial activity, rather than breaks in the data series due to changes in methodology, source data, and other technical aspects of the estimation that affect the level of receivables. Access to flow data allows users to calculate a growth rate for finance company receivables that excludes such breaks.

These changes will be accompanied by revisions to the estimates of receivables outstanding back to January 2006 and reflect improvements in methodology and a comprehensive review of the source data. New data will be available at: http://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/g20/current/

Users can now view plotted data as column charts, and add U.S. recession shading, while using the "View chart" function of the Data Download Program (DDP).

Data in the Data Download Program (DDP) for the December 21, 2010 release of Finance Companies (G.20) are currently incomplete. The PDF and HTML versions of the release are not affected and all data published are correct. We are working to update the DDP to include the missing variables as soon as possible.

Users will now be able to create and view interactive graphics of data packages from the program before downloading the underlying data and charts. The charting feature allows users to view multiple data series on a single chart as well as to display individual data points. The charts can be saved as PDFs or in a standard image file format (PNG) for publication and redistribution.

"Graphics play an important role in identifying data trends and relationships," said Federal Reserve Vice Chair Janet L. Yellen. "With the help of this intuitive new user interface, it's now possible to create customized charts directly from Federal Reserve statistical data."

Data from the July 20 G.20 Finance Company release, published on September 15, will be available in the Data Download Program (DDP) on September 16.

Data from the October 30 release of the G.20 Finance Companies release were added to the Data Download program on November 20, 2008.

Data from the Finance Company release (G.20) are now available for customizable download through the Federal Reserve Board's Data Download Program (DDP). These data will updated monthly with the G.20.