Bank of Italy adopts Ateco 2025 in loan statistics

The Bank of Italy has announced a methodology and statistical update to adopt Ateco 2025 in its bank-loan statistics and reconstruct historical series back to January 2022.

• Ateco 2025 is now used for bank balance-sheet reports from January 2026, replacing the previous Ateco 2007 classification in the Bank of Italy’s monthly and quarterly credit tables.
• The Bank of Italy built a backward reconstruction of loan series using AnaCredit and Matrice dei Conti, with the historical reconstruction running from January 2022 to December 2025; the article also notes that around 10% of AnaCredit counterparties changed classification between Ateco 2007 and Ateco 2025.