Cross-border banking exposure / Eritrea
What the world’s banks lend to Eritrea
The funding view: cross-border claims of BIS-reporting banks on Eritrea, from the locational statistics (LBS, by lender residence), with the consolidated claims by bank nationality (CBS) alongside. BIS-reporting banks held $296M of cross-border claims on Eritrea in Q4 2025, up from $4M when the series begins in Q1 1999.
Cross-border claims on Eritrea, Q1 1999–Q4 2025
LBS cross-border claims of all reporting banks on Eritrea, in USD billions, quarterly. The GFC and COVID quarters are shaded. This is the residence view, where a claim counts by where the lending bank sits, so a claim on Eritrea booked from any reporting jurisdiction is included.
Source: BIS Locational Banking Statistics (WS_LBS_D_PUB), BIS Data Portal (data.bis.org). Selection: cross-border claims (measure C), all reporting countries (5A) vs Eritrea as counterparty, all instruments, all currencies, all counterparty sectors, quarterly, amounts outstanding. License: free with “Source: BIS” attribution. Values shown in USD billions; raw BIS unit is USD millions. Methodology
Consolidated claims by bank nationality
No consolidated (nationality-basis) claims on Eritrea are published in the latest CBS quarter (Q4 2025). The consolidated statistics have a narrower reporting panel than the locational statistics, and individual bank-nationality detail on Eritrea is either not reported or suppressed as confidential. The residence-based claims above are unaffected.
Source: BIS Consolidated Banking Statistics (WS_CBS_PUB), BIS Data Portal (data.bis.org). Selection: international claims (measure I, domestic banks 4B, immediate-counterparty basis F) on Eritrea as counterparty, latest quarter. License: free with “Source: BIS” attribution. Methodology
Back to the cross-border overview, or Eritrea’s full financial profile on its country page. See the methodology for LBS versus CBS and the exact selections.