Bank Exposure: The Eurozone Risk

10 May 2011

Shane Fitzgerald

The Financial Times has updated its interactive graphic exploring European banks’ holdings of the public and private sector debt of different European countries.

Based on the latest quarterly data published by the Bank of International Settlements, the graphic shows foreign claims vis-à-vis individual countries by the nationality of reporting banks up to the end of 2010.

These include banks’ local subsidiaries and branches of foreign banks. It therefore provides a way to measure the risk exposures of lenders’ national banking systems and shows one way in which “contagion” could potentially be transmitted through the financial system.

Check it out here.

 

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