Cross-border claims / GRC
Greece
The banks located here, whoever owns them, held $121.75B of cross-border claims outstanding in Q4 2025: 0.26% of the world total that quarter, the 31st largest of the reporting systems active in it. Its series in the BIS locational statistics runs from Q4 2003 to Q4 2025.
Claims outstanding, Q4 2003–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 GRC vs all counterparties (5J), quarterly, 2003-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: 46 of them, $102.90B in total, which is 84.5% of its published all-countries total. The five largest counterparties are 76% of the named book. 27 of the 46 borrowers are themselves reporting systems in this dataset and link through to their own book; the other 19 appear here only as borrowers.
| # | Counterparty | Claims | Share of named book | Q1 2008 | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | IRL Ireland | $37.68B | 36.6% | $718M | +5148% |
| 2 | ITA Italy | $14.08B | 13.7% | $1.25B | +1027% |
| 3 | DEU Germany | $12.45B | 12.1% | $5.45B | +129% |
| 4 | CYP Cyprus | $7.93B | 7.7% | $8.41B | −6% |
| 5 | ESP Spain | $6.30B | 6.1% | $971M | +548% |
| 6 | LUX Luxembourg | $6.19B | 6.0% | $21.99B | −72% |
| 7 | FRA France | $5.64B | 5.5% | $5.86B | −4% |
| 8 | GBR United Kingdom | $4.31B | 4.2% | $41.04B | −90% |
| 9 | BGR Bulgaria | $2.19B | 2.1% | $4.76B | −54% |
| 10 | USA United States | $1.42B | 1.4% | $6.51B | −78% |
| 11 | ROU Romania | $814M | 0.8% | $10.76B | −92% |
| 12 | PRT Portugal | $669M | 0.7% | $1.58B | −58% |
| 13 | NLD Netherlands | $652M | 0.6% | $3.26B | −80% |
| 14 | SVK Slovakia | $510M | 0.5% | $1M | +50928% |
| 15 | BEL Belgium | $279M | 0.3% | $1.63B | −83% |
| 16 | MLT Malta | $192M | 0.2% | $339M | −43% |
| 17 | HUN Hungary | $161M | 0.2% | $291M | −45% |
| 18 | LTU Lithuania | $143M | 0.1% | $23M | +521% |
| 19 | POL Poland | $126M | 0.1% | $955M | −87% |
| 20 | MKD North Macedonia | $120M | 0.1% | n/a | n/a |
| 21 | CHL Chile | $110M | 0.1% | n/a | n/a |
| 22 | AUT Austria | $102M | 0.1% | $847M | −88% |
| 23 | ARE United Arab Emirates | $92M | 0.1% | n/a | n/a |
| 24 | MEX Mexico | $86M | 0.1% | n/a | n/a |
| 25 | FIN Finland | $80M | 0.1% | $14M | +474% |
| 26 | QAT Qatar | $77M | 0.1% | n/a | n/a |
| 27 | SWE Sweden | $71M | 0.1% | $99M | −28% |
| 28 | DNK Denmark | $67M | 0.1% | $741M | −91% |
| 29 | IDN Indonesia | $62M | 0.1% | n/a | n/a |
| 30 | SRB Serbia | $60M | 0.1% | n/a | n/a |
| 31 | JPN Japan | $53M | 0.1% | $16M | +230% |
| 32 | JEY Jersey | $47M | 0.0% | n/a | n/a |
| 33 | ISR Israel | $28M | 0.0% | n/a | n/a |
| 34 | LVA Latvia | $28M | 0.0% | $23M | +22% |
| 35 | CHE Switzerland | $20M | 0.0% | $377M | −95% |
| 36 | UKR Ukraine | $17M | 0.0% | n/a | n/a |
| 37 | CYM Cayman Islands | $15M | 0.0% | n/a | n/a |
| 38 | CAN Canada | $10M | 0.0% | $142M | −93% |
| 39 | GIB Gibraltar | $10M | 0.0% | n/a | n/a |
| 40 | CZE Czechia | $9M | 0.0% | $2M | +333% |
| 41 | SAU Saudi Arabia | $5M | 0.0% | n/a | n/a |
| 42 | GGY Guernsey | $4M | 0.0% | n/a | n/a |
| 43 | TUR Türkiye | $4M | 0.0% | n/a | n/a |
| 44 | HRV Croatia | $0.21M | 0.0% | n/a | n/a |
| 45 | SVN Slovenia | $0.08M | 0.0% | $16M | −99% |
| 46 | EST Estonia | $0.03M | 0.0% | $16M | −100% |
Source: BIS Locational Banking Statistics (WS_LBS_D_PUB), BIS Data Portal (data.bis.org). Selection: cross-border claims (measure C), reporting country GRC 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.