Cross-border claims / GGY

Guernsey

The banks located here, whoever owns them, held $113.81B of cross-border claims outstanding in Q4 2025: 0.25% of the world total that quarter, the 32nd largest of the reporting systems active in it. Its series in the BIS locational statistics runs from Q4 2001 to Q4 2025.

$113.81B

Claims outstanding

Q4 2025, 32nd largest

−57.9%

Against its own peak

peak $270.21B, Q1 2008

−58%

Change since Q1 2008

from $270.21B

107

Counterparty countries

99.0% of its book is named

Claims outstanding, Q4 2001–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.

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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 GGY vs all counterparties (5J), quarterly, 2001-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: 107 of them, $112.70B in total, which is 99.0% of its published all-countries total. The five largest counterparties are 85% of the named book. 46 of the 107 borrowers are themselves reporting systems in this dataset and link through to their own book; the other 61 appear here only as borrowers.

#	Counterparty	Claims	Share of named book	Q1 2008	Change
1	CHE Switzerland	$47.64B	42.3%	$33.53B	+42%
2	GBR United Kingdom	$26.06B	23.1%	$106.52B	−76%
3	USA United States	$12.92B	11.5%	$36.56B	−65%
4	JEY Jersey	$6.81B	6.0%	$20.27B	−66%
5	LUX Luxembourg	$2.52B	2.2%	$901M	+179%
6	FRA France	$2.24B	2.0%	$22.77B	−90%
7	CAN Canada	$1.87B	1.7%	$257M	+628%
8	BHS The Bahamas	$1.37B	1.2%	$17.85B	−92%
9	ARE United Arab Emirates	$1.22B	1.1%	$2M	+60805%
10	ZAF South Africa	$1.06B	0.9%	$66M	+1507%
11	BEL Belgium	$902M	0.8%	$1.70B	−47%
12	SGP Singapore	$890M	0.8%	$177M	+403%
13	NLD Netherlands	$768M	0.7%	$8.43B	−91%
14	DEU Germany	$716M	0.6%	$3.41B	−79%
15	HKG Hong Kong SAR	$609M	0.5%	$331M	+84%
16	KOR Korea	$530M	0.5%	n/a	n/a
17	IRL Ireland	$517M	0.5%	$4.58B	−89%
18	ITA Italy	$497M	0.4%	$403M	+23%
19	VGB British Virgin Islands	$428M	0.4%	n/a	n/a
20	KWT Kuwait	$301M	0.3%	$5M	+5927%
21	AUS Australia	$299M	0.3%	$760M	−61%
22	ESP Spain	$264M	0.2%	$325M	−19%
23	SAU Saudi Arabia	$238M	0.2%	n/a	n/a
24	IMN Isle of Man	$197M	0.2%	$458M	−57%
25	JPN Japan	$183M	0.2%	$536M	−66%
26	SWE Sweden	$170M	0.2%	$963M	−82%
27	NOR Norway	$154M	0.1%	$291M	−47%
28	ISR Israel	$133M	0.1%	n/a	n/a
29	NZL New Zealand	$89M	0.1%	n/a	n/a
30	AUT Austria	$87M	0.1%	$1.64B	−95%
31	FIN Finland	$84M	0.1%	$411M	−80%
32	QAT Qatar	$71M	0.1%	n/a	n/a
33	MUS Mauritius	$68M	0.1%	n/a	n/a
34	PHL Philippines	$65M	0.1%	n/a	n/a
35	BMU Bermuda	$63M	0.1%	$152M	−59%
36	CYM Cayman Islands	$61M	0.1%	$611M	−90%
37	TUR Türkiye	$58M	0.1%	$49M	+18%
38	DNK Denmark	$54M	0.0%	$471M	−88%
39	CYP Cyprus	$43M	0.0%	$111M	−61%
40	MLT Malta	$40M	0.0%	$32M	+26%
41	GIB Gibraltar	$34M	0.0%	n/a	n/a
42	CHN China	$32M	0.0%	$1M	+3114%
43	EGY Egypt	$31M	0.0%	$3M	+942%
44	MYS Malaysia	$30M	0.0%	n/a	n/a
45	OMN Oman	$29M	0.0%	$1M	+2764%
46	CHL Chile	$24M	0.0%	n/a	n/a
47	PRT Portugal	$23M	0.0%	$29M	−20%
48	LBN Lebanon	$16M	0.0%	n/a	n/a
49	ATG Antigua and Barbuda	$16M	0.0%	n/a	n/a
50	IND India	$16M	0.0%	n/a	n/a
51	BHR Bahrain	$15M	0.0%	$16M	−8%
52	MHL Marshall Islands	$14M	0.0%	n/a	n/a
53	THA Thailand	$13M	0.0%	n/a	n/a
54	CIV Côte d'Ivoire	$12M	0.0%	n/a	n/a
55	TUN Tunisia	$11M	0.0%	n/a	n/a
56	MAR Morocco	$9M	0.0%	n/a	n/a
57	TWN Chinese Taipei	$8M	0.0%	n/a	n/a
58	POL Poland	$8M	0.0%	n/a	n/a
59	VCT St Vincent and the Grenadines	$7M	0.0%	n/a	n/a
60	GRC Greece	$7M	0.0%	$109M	−94%
61	NGA Nigeria	$6M	0.0%	n/a	n/a
62	HRV Croatia	$6M	0.0%	n/a	n/a
63	BRB Barbados	$6M	0.0%	n/a	n/a
64	MEX Mexico	$5M	0.0%	n/a	n/a
65	PAN Panama	$5M	0.0%	n/a	n/a
66	KEN Kenya	$5M	0.0%	n/a	n/a
67	BRA Brazil	$5M	0.0%	n/a	n/a
68	VNM Vietnam	$5M	0.0%	n/a	n/a
69	KNA St Kitts and Nevis	$5M	0.0%	n/a	n/a
70	IDN Indonesia	$5M	0.0%	n/a	n/a
71	TCA Turks and Caicos Islands	$4M	0.0%	n/a	n/a
72	CZE Czechia	$3M	0.0%	n/a	n/a
73	HUN Hungary	$3M	0.0%	n/a	n/a
74	COL Colombia	$2M	0.0%	n/a	n/a
75	ROU Romania	$2M	0.0%	n/a	n/a
76	TGO Togo	$2M	0.0%	n/a	n/a
77	BRN Brunei	$2M	0.0%	n/a	n/a
78	ISL Iceland	$0.93M	0.0%	$310M	−100%
79	UKR Ukraine	$0.90M	0.0%	n/a	n/a
80	MAC Macao SAR	$0.51M	0.0%	n/a	n/a
81	GEO Georgia	$0.45M	0.0%	n/a	n/a
82	PAK Pakistan	$0.42M	0.0%	$7M	−94%
83	TZA Tanzania	$0.35M	0.0%	n/a	n/a
84	MDG Madagascar	$0.35M	0.0%	n/a	n/a
85	JOR Jordan	$0.30M	0.0%	n/a	n/a
86	BGR Bulgaria	$0.27M	0.0%	n/a	n/a
87	CUW Curaçao	$0.21M	0.0%	n/a	n/a
88	UGA Uganda	$0.16M	0.0%	n/a	n/a
89	BIH Bosnia and Herzegovina	$0.14M	0.0%	n/a	n/a
90	BWA Botswana	$0.13M	0.0%	n/a	n/a
91	JAM Jamaica	$0.12M	0.0%	n/a	n/a
92	LBR Liberia	$0.08M	0.0%	n/a	n/a
93	LIE Liechtenstein	$0.06M	0.0%	n/a	n/a
94	PER Peru	$0.04M	0.0%	n/a	n/a
95	AIA Anguilla	$0.03M	0.0%	n/a	n/a
96	WSM Samoa	$0.01M	0.0%	n/a	n/a
97	URY Uruguay	$0.01M	0.0%	n/a	n/a
98	LCA St Lucia	$0.01M	0.0%	n/a	n/a
99	AND Andorra	$0.01M	0.0%	n/a	n/a
100	CRI Costa Rica	$0.01M	0.0%	$1M	−99%
101	NIC Nicaragua	$0.01M	0.0%	n/a	n/a
102	GTM Guatemala	$0.00M	0.0%	n/a	n/a
103	SVN Slovenia	$0.00M	0.0%	n/a	n/a
104	SYC Seychelles	$0.00M	0.0%	n/a	n/a
105	BLZ Belize	$0.00M	0.0%	n/a	n/a
106	ATF French Southern Territories	$0.00M	0.0%	n/a	n/a
107	SMR San Marino	$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 GGY 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.