FinObservatory

Cross-border claims / FIN

Finland

The banks located here, whoever owns them, held $233.63B of cross-border claims outstanding in Q4 2025: 0.51% of the world total that quarter, the 25th largest of the reporting systems active in it. Its series in the BIS locational statistics runs from Q4 1983 to Q4 2025.

$233.63B
Claims outstanding
Q4 2025, 25th largest
−46.0%
Against its own peak
peak $432.59B, Q3 2011
+97%
Change since Q1 2008
from $118.82B
114
Counterparty countries
83.4% of its book is named

Claims outstanding, Q4 1983Q4 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.

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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 FIN vs all counterparties (5J), quarterly, 1983-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: 114 of them, $194.84B in total, which is 83.4% of its published all-countries total. The five largest counterparties are 79% of the named book. 38 of the 114 borrowers are themselves reporting systems in this dataset and link through to their own book; the other 76 appear here only as borrowers.

#CounterpartyClaimsShare of named bookQ1 2008Change
1DNK Denmark$45.40B23.3%$36.89B+23%
2SWE Sweden$44.53B22.9%$29.84B+49%
3NOR Norway$32.71B16.8%$18.47B+77%
4FRA France$16.07B8.2%$1.63B+885%
5DEU Germany$14.44B7.4%$3.54B+308%
6IRL Ireland$10.40B5.3%$1.43B+630%
7GBR United Kingdom$10.03B5.2%$5.68B+77%
8NLD Netherlands$5.20B2.7%$1.94B+168%
9LUX Luxembourg$5.03B2.6%$375M+1241%
10CAN Canada$3.27B1.7%$67M+4782%
11BEL Belgium$1.79B0.9%$493M+263%
12AUT Austria$1.11B0.6%$312M+254%
13EST Estonia$628M0.3%$2.58B−76%
14ESP Spain$568M0.3%$1.56B−64%
15JPN Japan$545M0.3%$17M+3103%
16AUS Australia$371M0.2%$209M+78%
17KOR Korea$364M0.2%$17M+2039%
18CHN China$349M0.2%$64M+446%
19CHE Switzerland$333M0.2%$784M−58%
20LVA Latvia$249M0.1%$3.28B−92%
21NZL New Zealand$156M0.1%n/an/a
22ISL Iceland$134M0.1%$30M+348%
23LTU Lithuania$115M0.1%$2.37B−95%
24ITA Italy$111M0.1%$1.01B−89%
25CZE Czechia$106M0.1%$7M+1414%
26PRT Portugal$105M0.1%$203M−48%
27RUS Russia$99M0.1%$2.76B−96%
28POL Poland$97M0.0%$434M−78%
29ARE United Arab Emirates$91M0.0%$29M+213%
30SVK Slovakia$51M0.0%$1M+5036%
31VNM Vietnam$42M0.0%n/an/a
32IND India$42M0.0%$40M+4%
33TUR Türkiye$39M0.0%$89M−56%
34SGP Singapore$29M0.0%$199M−85%
35ROU Romania$23M0.0%$1M+2208%
36HKG Hong Kong SAR$19M0.0%$20M−4%
37SAU Saudi Arabia$18M0.0%$27M−35%
38CYP Cyprus$16M0.0%$90M−82%
39BRA Brazil$14M0.0%$37M−62%
40BGR Bulgaria$13M0.0%$1M+1174%
41HRV Croatia$13M0.0%$4M+216%
42SVN Slovenia$9M0.0%n/an/a
43THA Thailand$8M0.0%$1M+676%
44EGY Egypt$7M0.0%$2M+270%
45QAT Qatar$7M0.0%n/an/a
46GRC Greece$6M0.0%$92M−93%
47MEX Mexico$6M0.0%$6M−6%
48NPL Nepal$6M0.0%n/an/a
49MAR Morocco$5M0.0%n/an/a
50MLT Malta$5M0.0%$7M−31%
51UKR Ukraine$4M0.0%$24M−82%
52HUN Hungary$4M0.0%$39M−89%
53IRN Iran$4M0.0%$202M−98%
54BGD Bangladesh$4M0.0%n/an/a
55ZAF South Africa$4M0.0%$3M+19%
56TWN Chinese Taipei$3M0.0%n/an/a
57ISR Israel$3M0.0%n/an/a
58KAZ Kazakhstan$3M0.0%$82M−97%
59PHL Philippines$2M0.0%$1M+149%
60MYS Malaysia$2M0.0%$1M+114%
61KEN Kenya$2M0.0%$2M−12%
62PAK Pakistan$2M0.0%n/an/a
63SRB Serbia$2M0.0%n/an/a
64IDN Indonesia$2M0.0%$76M−98%
65BHR Bahrain$1M0.0%$9M−84%
66TUN Tunisia$1M0.0%$2M−29%
67NGA Nigeria$1M0.0%n/an/a
68GHA Ghana$1M0.0%n/an/a
69CIV Côte d'Ivoire$1M0.0%n/an/a
70LKA Sri Lanka$1M0.0%$42M−97%
71CHL Chile$1M0.0%n/an/a
72AND Andorra$1M0.0%n/an/a
73IRQ Iraq$1M0.0%n/an/a
74GIB Gibraltar$1M0.0%$4M−70%
75PAN Panama$1M0.0%n/an/a
76ZMB Zambia$1M0.0%n/an/a
77ALB Albania$0.89M0.0%n/an/a
78TZA Tanzania$0.87M0.0%n/an/a
79ARG Argentina$0.84M0.0%$2M−58%
80COL Colombia$0.82M0.0%n/an/a
81MKD North Macedonia$0.81M0.0%n/an/a
82LBN Lebanon$0.77M0.0%n/an/a
83PRY Paraguay$0.69M0.0%n/an/a
84OMN Oman$0.67M0.0%n/an/a
85GEO Georgia$0.65M0.0%n/an/a
86SEN Senegal$0.63M0.0%n/an/a
87SDN Sudan$0.58M0.0%n/an/a
88CMR Cameroon$0.57M0.0%n/an/a
89ETH Ethiopia$0.45M0.0%n/an/a
90SYR Syria$0.37M0.0%n/an/a
91UGA Uganda$0.26M0.0%n/an/a
92KHM Cambodia$0.25M0.0%n/an/a
93MDV Maldives$0.25M0.0%n/an/a
94ZWE Zimbabwe$0.25M0.0%n/an/a
95PER Peru$0.24M0.0%$1M−76%
96MUS Mauritius$0.22M0.0%$1M−78%
97AFG Afghanistan$0.21M0.0%n/an/a
98ECU Ecuador$0.15M0.0%n/an/a
99BLR Belarus$0.14M0.0%n/an/a
100SUR Suriname$0.14M0.0%n/an/a
101VEN Venezuela$0.11M0.0%$28M−100%
102GMB The Gambia$0.10M0.0%n/an/a
103BIH Bosnia and Herzegovina$0.10M0.0%$11M−99%
104MNG Mongolia$0.10M0.0%n/an/a
105SOM Somalia$0.09M0.0%n/an/a
106JOR Jordan$0.05M0.0%n/an/a
107CUB Cuba$0.04M0.0%n/an/a
108DOM Dominican Republic$0.04M0.0%n/an/a
109ARM Armenia$0.04M0.0%n/an/a
110SLV El Salvador$0.01M0.0%n/an/a
111MMR Myanmar$0.01M0.0%n/an/a
112KGZ Kyrgyz Republic$0.01M0.0%n/an/a
113GRL Greenland$0.00M0.0%n/an/a
114NAM Namibia$0.00M0.0%n/an/a

Source: BIS Locational Banking Statistics (WS_LBS_D_PUB), BIS Data Portal (data.bis.org). Selection: cross-border claims (measure C), reporting country FIN 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.