Since 2009, Banco de la República's Financial Stability Department has been doing a quarterly survey on the credit situation in Colombia, which is geared towards transactions (banks, financing companies, and financial cooperatives). The purpose of the survey is to analyze the institutions' perceptions of supply, demand, and access to credit, changes in allocation policies in the short term, and financial intermediaries' expectations for the upcoming quarter. The following is a summary of the results of the latest survey, details of which are presented in the Credit Situation Report for the Second Quarter of 2021, in Spanish).