Central Banks & Monetary
Chartered-bank prime lending rate
Prime rate (V80691311) is the base reference banks use to price variable-rate consumer and business loans. The Bank of Canada publishes a daily value based on the rates posted by the six largest chartered banks. Typically moves in 25 bp steps in tandem with the overnight rate target.
Daily business-day resolution.
get/api/v1/boc/prime-rate
Query parameters
recent_yearsinteger
Number of years of prime-rate history.
Number of years of prime-rate history.
Response
Daily chartered-bank prime rate in percent.
Example response
{
"meta": {
"endpoint": "/api/v1/fred/us/cpi",
"data_time": "2026-04-16T14:30:00Z",
"response_time": "2026-04-16T14:30:12Z",
"provider": "Sugra API v1.0.1",
"source": "sugra_crypto",
"attribution": "Short interest and Reg SHO daily short volume data is owned by and sourced from FINRA (Financial Industry Regulatory Authority).",
"fallback_chain": [
"sugra_crypto",
"sugra_finance"
]
}
}