Cross-border claims / MEX
Mexico
The banks located here, whoever owns them, held $62.84B of cross-border claims outstanding in Q4 2025: 0.14% of the world total that quarter, the 40th 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 MEX 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: 43 of them, $62.84B in total, which is 100.0% of its published all-countries total. The five largest counterparties are 93% of the named book. 30 of the 43 borrowers are themselves reporting systems in this dataset and link through to their own book; the other 13 appear here only as borrowers.
| # | Counterparty | Claims | Share of named book | Q1 2008 | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | USA United States | $43.21B | 68.8% | $14.09B | +207% |
| 2 | DEU Germany | $5.40B | 8.6% | $391M | +1280% |
| 3 | BRA Brazil | $5.21B | 8.3% | $3M | +173557% |
| 4 | GBR United Kingdom | $2.97B | 4.7% | $554M | +436% |
| 5 | ESP Spain | $1.54B | 2.5% | $723M | +113% |
| 6 | CAN Canada | $1.24B | 2.0% | $477M | +161% |
| 7 | JPN Japan | $725M | 1.2% | $235M | +209% |
| 8 | PAN Panama | $658M | 1.0% | $85M | +674% |
| 9 | BMU Bermuda | $365M | 0.6% | n/a | n/a |
| 10 | CHE Switzerland | $274M | 0.4% | $54M | +408% |
| 11 | SGP Singapore | $226M | 0.4% | n/a | n/a |
| 12 | HKG Hong Kong SAR | $178M | 0.3% | n/a | n/a |
| 13 | FRA France | $169M | 0.3% | $101M | +68% |
| 14 | GTM Guatemala | $118M | 0.2% | $25M | +371% |
| 15 | CRI Costa Rica | $104M | 0.2% | n/a | n/a |
| 16 | IRL Ireland | $90M | 0.1% | $57M | +58% |
| 17 | PER Peru | $85M | 0.1% | $19M | +349% |
| 18 | LUX Luxembourg | $78M | 0.1% | $23M | +238% |
| 19 | VGB British Virgin Islands | $58M | 0.1% | n/a | n/a |
| 20 | CYM Cayman Islands | $32M | 0.1% | $245M | −87% |
| 21 | VEN Venezuela | $31M | 0.1% | n/a | n/a |
| 22 | BEL Belgium | $27M | 0.0% | $56M | −52% |
| 23 | CHN China | $23M | 0.0% | $1M | +2156% |
| 24 | IRN Iran | $14M | 0.0% | n/a | n/a |
| 25 | HND Honduras | $11M | 0.0% | n/a | n/a |
| 26 | ITA Italy | $6M | 0.0% | $30M | −80% |
| 27 | NLD Netherlands | $6M | 0.0% | $24M | −75% |
| 28 | COL Colombia | $5M | 0.0% | n/a | n/a |
| 29 | KOR Korea | $3M | 0.0% | n/a | n/a |
| 30 | TWN Chinese Taipei | $3M | 0.0% | n/a | n/a |
| 31 | ECU Ecuador | $2M | 0.0% | $6M | −64% |
| 32 | BHS The Bahamas | $2M | 0.0% | $142M | −99% |
| 33 | SWE Sweden | $1M | 0.0% | n/a | n/a |
| 34 | CUB Cuba | $0.63M | 0.0% | $285M | −100% |
| 35 | ZAF South Africa | $0.38M | 0.0% | n/a | n/a |
| 36 | PRK North Korea | $0.21M | 0.0% | n/a | n/a |
| 37 | NOR Norway | $0.12M | 0.0% | n/a | n/a |
| 38 | ARG Argentina | $0.11M | 0.0% | $99M | −100% |
| 39 | AUS Australia | $0.11M | 0.0% | n/a | n/a |
| 40 | DNK Denmark | $0.09M | 0.0% | n/a | n/a |
| 41 | NIC Nicaragua | $0.01M | 0.0% | n/a | n/a |
| 42 | IND India | $0.00M | 0.0% | n/a | n/a |
| 43 | CHL Chile | $-29M | -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 MEX 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.