Unless otherwise defined in the economic literature, the sum of all loans by domestic banks to counterparties abroad. In mid-2014, German banks’ foreign claims amounted to roughly EUR 148 billion, ranking at the top of all banking systems worldwide. This high level of international integration promotes and increases competition. – See foreign loan volume. – Cf. the figures for Germany, broadly broken down by various characteristics, in the Statistical Section of the respective Monthly Report of the Deutsche Bundesbank, heading “Banks”; on the influence of loan securitization on the statistically measured size of foreign claims ECB Monthly Report of September 2005, p. 22, Financial Stability Report 2013, p. 30 ff: (high foreign claims harbor contagion risks).
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