FinObservatory

Cross-border banking exposure / Mongolia

What the world’s banks lend to Mongolia

The funding view: cross-border claims of BIS-reporting banks on Mongolia, from the locational statistics (LBS, by lender residence), with the consolidated claims by bank nationality (CBS) alongside. BIS-reporting banks held $4.48B of cross-border claims on Mongolia in Q4 2025, up from $0.00M when the series begins in Q1 1988.

$4.48B
LBS cross-border claims
Q4 2025, all reporters
−$214M
Change since 2019
−4.6% vs Q4 2019
$1.31B
LBS liabilities to Mongolia
Q4 2025, banks’ funding from
$2.51B
CBS international claims
Q4 2025, nationality basis

Cross-border claims on Mongolia, Q1 1988Q4 2025

LBS cross-border claims of all reporting banks on Mongolia, 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 Mongolia booked from any reporting jurisdiction is included.

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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), all reporting countries (5A) vs Mongolia 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

CBS international claims on Mongolia in Q4 2025, broken out by the nationality of the lending banks (where the parent is headquartered, worldwide-consolidated, immediate-counterparty basis). The top 5 reporting banking systems shown account for $1.15B of the $2.51B consolidated total. This is a different measure from the residence-based claims above and is not additive with them.

Bank nationalityInternational claims
FRA France$650M
GBR United Kingdom$303M
ITA Italy$130M
AUT Austria$57M
ESP Spain$8M

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), individual reporting banking system by nationality vs Mongolia as counterparty, latest quarter, amounts outstanding. License: free with “Source: BIS” attribution. CBS carries claims only; it has no liabilities measure by design. Methodology

Back to the cross-border overview, or Mongolia’s full financial profile on its country page. See the methodology for LBS versus CBS and the exact selections.