# Foreign claims

- Canonical URL: https://www.gerhardmerk.de/foreign-claims
- Post ID: 591570
- Modified: 2023-07-25T21:00:52+00:00
- Language: en

## Definition

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). Attention: The financial encyclopedia is protected by copyright and may only be used for private purposes without express consent! University Professor Dr. Gerhard Merk, Dipl.rer.pol., Dipl.rer.oec. Professor Dr. Eckehard Krah, Dipl.rer.pol. E-mail address: info@ekrah.com https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerhard_Ernst_Merk https://www.jung-stilling-gesellschaft.de/merk/ https://www.gerhardmerk.de/

## Machine-readable

- Generator: Merk Knowledge 1.1.1