FinObservatory

Cross-border banking exposure / Slovenia

What the world’s banks lend to Slovenia

The funding view: cross-border claims of BIS-reporting banks on Slovenia, from the locational statistics (LBS, by lender residence), with the consolidated claims by bank nationality (CBS) alongside. BIS-reporting banks held $12.80B of cross-border claims on Slovenia in Q4 2025, up from $284M when the series begins in Q4 1993.

$12.80B
LBS cross-border claims
Q4 2025, all reporters
+$3.85B
Change since 2019
+43.1% vs Q4 2019
$13.39B
LBS liabilities to Slovenia
Q4 2025, banks’ funding from
$10.66B
CBS international claims
Q4 2025, nationality basis

Cross-border claims on Slovenia, Q4 1993Q4 2025

LBS cross-border claims of all reporting banks on Slovenia, 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 Slovenia 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 Slovenia 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 Slovenia 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 $6.67B of the $10.66B consolidated total. This is a different measure from the residence-based claims above and is not additive with them.

Bank nationalityInternational claims
AUT Austria$3.21B
ITA Italy$1.16B
BEL Belgium$1.08B
FRA France$889M
JPN Japan$329M

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 Slovenia as counterparty, latest quarter, amounts outstanding. License: free with “Source: BIS” attribution. CBS carries claims only; it has no liabilities measure by design. Methodology

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