Cross-border claims / BRA
Brazil
The banks located here, whoever owns them, held $72.49B of cross-border claims outstanding in Q4 2025: 0.16% of the world total that quarter, the 38th largest of the reporting systems active in it. Its series in the BIS locational statistics runs from Q4 2002 to Q4 2025.
Claims outstanding, Q4 2002–Q4 2025
Total cross-border claims of the banks located here, USD billions, quarterly. Nominal dollars: movements mix changes in positions with changes in the dollar value of non-dollar books, and this BIS cut carries no adjusted-change series to separate them.
Source: BIS Locational Banking Statistics (WS_LBS_D_PUB), BIS Data Portal (data.bis.org). Selection: cross-border claims (measure C, amounts outstanding), reporting country BRA vs all counterparties (5J), quarterly, 2002-Q4 to 2025-Q4. License:free with “Source: BIS” attribution. Methodology
Who these banks lend to
Every counterparty country BIS publishes for this system in Q4 2025: 65 of them, $72.13B in total, which is 99.5% of its published all-countries total. The five largest counterparties are 72% of the named book. 36 of the 65 borrowers are themselves reporting systems in this dataset and link through to their own book; the other 29 appear here only as borrowers.
| # | Counterparty | Claims | Share of named book | Q1 2008 | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | CYM Cayman Islands | $17.49B | 24.2% | $14.94B | +17% |
| 2 | USA United States | $12.32B | 17.1% | $16.79B | −27% |
| 3 | ESP Spain | $8.63B | 12.0% | $4.25B | +103% |
| 4 | BHS The Bahamas | $7.51B | 10.4% | $3.88B | +94% |
| 5 | LUX Luxembourg | $6.34B | 8.8% | $382M | +1559% |
| 6 | KOR Korea | $5.82B | 8.1% | $4.33B | +34% |
| 7 | MEX Mexico | $5.41B | 7.5% | n/a | n/a |
| 8 | ARG Argentina | $1.93B | 2.7% | $153M | +1162% |
| 9 | CHL Chile | $1.22B | 1.7% | $876M | +39% |
| 10 | URY Uruguay | $1.15B | 1.6% | $239M | +380% |
| 11 | ISR Israel | $771M | 1.1% | n/a | n/a |
| 12 | GBR United Kingdom | $706M | 1.0% | $22.74B | −97% |
| 13 | DEU Germany | $591M | 0.8% | $1.20B | −51% |
| 14 | JPN Japan | $393M | 0.5% | $449M | −12% |
| 15 | FRA France | $322M | 0.4% | $6.68B | −95% |
| 16 | CHN China | $219M | 0.3% | n/a | n/a |
| 17 | UZB Uzbekistan | $154M | 0.2% | n/a | n/a |
| 18 | AUT Austria | $147M | 0.2% | $3.91B | −96% |
| 19 | PRY Paraguay | $134M | 0.2% | $129M | +4% |
| 20 | NLD Netherlands | $127M | 0.2% | $1.24B | −90% |
| 21 | COL Colombia | $100M | 0.1% | n/a | n/a |
| 22 | SGP Singapore | $81M | 0.1% | n/a | n/a |
| 23 | GHA Ghana | $75M | 0.1% | n/a | n/a |
| 24 | CHE Switzerland | $60M | 0.1% | $326M | −81% |
| 25 | GTM Guatemala | $49M | 0.1% | n/a | n/a |
| 26 | BOL Bolivia | $42M | 0.1% | $13M | +223% |
| 27 | EGY Egypt | $38M | 0.1% | n/a | n/a |
| 28 | ZAF South Africa | $36M | 0.0% | n/a | n/a |
| 29 | ECU Ecuador | $32M | 0.0% | n/a | n/a |
| 30 | PAN Panama | $32M | 0.0% | $13M | +146% |
| 31 | IND India | $29M | 0.0% | n/a | n/a |
| 32 | MOZ Mozambique | $26M | 0.0% | n/a | n/a |
| 33 | HKG Hong Kong SAR | $22M | 0.0% | n/a | n/a |
| 34 | DOM Dominican Republic | $22M | 0.0% | n/a | n/a |
| 35 | CAN Canada | $19M | 0.0% | $2.00B | −99% |
| 36 | HND Honduras | $18M | 0.0% | n/a | n/a |
| 37 | PRT Portugal | $11M | 0.0% | $547M | −98% |
| 38 | PER Peru | $10M | 0.0% | n/a | n/a |
| 39 | IRL Ireland | $8M | 0.0% | $357M | −98% |
| 40 | NOR Norway | $8M | 0.0% | $719M | −99% |
| 41 | ITA Italy | $6M | 0.0% | $349M | −98% |
| 42 | SWE Sweden | $4M | 0.0% | $183M | −98% |
| 43 | AUS Australia | $4M | 0.0% | $38M | −91% |
| 44 | ARE United Arab Emirates | $3M | 0.0% | n/a | n/a |
| 45 | CUB Cuba | $3M | 0.0% | n/a | n/a |
| 46 | BEL Belgium | $3M | 0.0% | $21M | −86% |
| 47 | DNK Denmark | $3M | 0.0% | $324M | −99% |
| 48 | NIC Nicaragua | $2M | 0.0% | n/a | n/a |
| 49 | CRI Costa Rica | $0.69M | 0.0% | n/a | n/a |
| 50 | POL Poland | $0.59M | 0.0% | n/a | n/a |
| 51 | NZL New Zealand | $0.42M | 0.0% | n/a | n/a |
| 52 | MYS Malaysia | $0.36M | 0.0% | n/a | n/a |
| 53 | MAC Macao SAR | $0.15M | 0.0% | n/a | n/a |
| 54 | THA Thailand | $0.13M | 0.0% | n/a | n/a |
| 55 | SAU Saudi Arabia | $0.11M | 0.0% | n/a | n/a |
| 56 | TUR Türkiye | $0.10M | 0.0% | n/a | n/a |
| 57 | IDN Indonesia | $0.04M | 0.0% | n/a | n/a |
| 58 | PAK Pakistan | $0.04M | 0.0% | n/a | n/a |
| 59 | MLT Malta | $0.01M | 0.0% | n/a | n/a |
| 60 | PHL Philippines | $0.01M | 0.0% | n/a | n/a |
| 61 | VNM Vietnam | $0.01M | 0.0% | n/a | n/a |
| 62 | VGB British Virgin Islands | $0.01M | 0.0% | n/a | n/a |
| 63 | CZE Czechia | $0.00M | 0.0% | n/a | n/a |
| 64 | LKA Sri Lanka | $0.00M | 0.0% | n/a | n/a |
| 65 | JOR Jordan | $0.00M | 0.0% | n/a | n/a |
Source: BIS Locational Banking Statistics (WS_LBS_D_PUB), BIS Data Portal (data.bis.org). Selection: cross-border claims (measure C), reporting country BRA vs each individual counterparty country, 2025-Q4, with the same cell at 2008-Q1 where it exists. License:free with “Source: BIS” attribution. Shares are of the sum of this reporter's named counterparty cells, not of its published total, because the two differ. Change is in the nominal USD stock and is not a flow. n/a means the cell does not exist at the earlier date, which is not the same as zero. Methodology
These are residence figures, so this page covers every bank booking here, foreign-owned subsidiaries and branches included, and excludes the foreign books of banks headquartered here but booking abroad. For the other side of the ledger, how much the world’s banks lend to this economy, see its counterparty page. The methodology gives the exact BIS selection behind every figure here.