Statistics Reported by Banks and Other Financial Firms in the United States

Release Date: November 2017
Liabilities to Foreigners Reported by Financial Firms in the United States (Table 3.17) 1
Payable in U.S. Dollars
Millions of dollars, end of period
Item 2014/r 2015 2016/r Mar 2017/r Apr 2017/r May 2017/r Jun 2017/r Jul 2017/r Aug 2017/r Sep 2017/p
 
  BY HOLDER AND TYPE OF LIABILITY  
1 Total, all foreigners 4,847,339 4,734,047 4,650,531 4,757,018 4,874,252 4,856,490 4,868,705 4,949,198 5,006,525 4,873,250
 
2 Financial Firms` own liabilities 3,804,396 3,605,959 3,506,161 3,614,953 3,706,178 3,656,385 3,671,120 3,744,165 3,836,395 3,700,760
  By type of liability  
3 Deposits2 2,008,660 1,925,743 1,803,412 1,860,199 1,913,761 1,918,218 1,919,598 1,982,007 2,027,453 1,928,784
4 Other 1,795,736 1,680,216 1,702,749 1,754,754 1,792,417 1,738,167 1,751,522 1,762,158 1,808,942 1,771,976
5 Of which: repurchase agreements 908,879 904,964 997,030 1,011,966 1,008,831 994,134 1,027,266 1,004,430 1,027,647 995,922
6 Financial Firms` custody liabilities3 1,042,943 1,128,088 1,144,370 1,142,065 1,168,074 1,200,105 1,197,585 1,205,033 1,170,130 1,172,490
  By type of liability  
7 U.S. Treasury bills and certificates4 671,641 724,731 672,377 673,011 680,195 704,175 698,748 701,847 696,078 703,726
8 Other negotiable and readily transferable instruments5 238,897 226,594 271,242 265,746 276,127 281,698 276,999 285,166 258,233 242,869
9 Of which: negotiable time certificates of deposit held in custody for foreigners 102,180 95,644 123,118 125,662 131,227 137,499 138,928 136,958 129,206 121,285
10 Of which: short-term agency securities 41,825 41,548 23,334 21,414 18,295 17,729 16,826 17,480 18,018 16,107
11 Other 132,405 176,763 200,751 203,308 211,752 214,232 221,838 218,020 215,819 225,895
 
  By holder  
12 International and regional organizations6 35,833 47,712 46,114 47,995 50,843 50,106 50,712 51,464 50,179 48,047
13 Financial Firms` own liabilities 24,664 38,105 29,627 35,854 37,719 32,506 33,980 32,903 32,105 32,927
14 Deposits2 20,205 20,163 22,300 27,272 31,642 26,319 22,626 28,369 27,591 26,825
15 Other 4,459 17,942 7,327 8,582 6,077 6,187 11,354 4,534 4,514 6,102
16 Financial Firms` custody liabilities3 11,169 9,607 16,487 12,141 13,124 17,600 16,732 18,561 18,074 15,120
17 U.S. Treasury bills and certificates4 5,298 5,926 10,442 7,082 7,122 8,620 8,340 9,331 10,199 8,000
18 Other negotiable and readily transferable instruments5 5,871 3,681 6,045 5,059 6,002 8,980 8,392 9,230 7,875 7,120
 
19 Official institutions7 628,380 724,868 737,466 756,539 756,410 755,919 764,317 772,849 772,514 742,870
20 Financial Firms` own liabilities 253,880 351,636 401,463 400,232 390,593 387,052 395,382 401,288 409,511 380,065
21 Deposits2 92,298 85,884 104,929 110,515 114,645 108,592 111,936 109,868 113,206 99,563
22 Other 161,582 265,752 296,534 289,717 275,948 278,460 283,446 291,420 296,305 280,502
23 Financial Firms` custody liabilities3 374,500 373,232 336,003 356,307 365,817 368,867 368,935 371,561 363,003 362,805
24 U.S Treasury bills and certificates4 335,308 336,669 298,373 317,775 326,535 329,310 330,460 330,559 324,094 325,188
25 Other negotiable and readily transferable instruments5 39,192 36,563 37,630 38,532 39,282 39,557 38,475 41,002 38,909 37,617
 
26 Banks8 2,472,982 2,278,453 2,015,707 2,065,166 2,140,914 2,118,010 2,140,865 2,217,463 2,272,846 2,167,188
27 Financial Firms` own liabilities 2,303,351 2,069,242 1,811,143 1,875,274 1,941,218 1,917,146 1,944,154 2,013,803 2,065,543 1,959,744
28 Deposits2 1,245,900 1,153,588 983,427 999,211 1,036,704 1,054,628 1,060,104 1,097,759 1,133,182 1,051,618
29 Other 1,057,451 915,654 827,716 876,063 904,514 862,518 884,050 916,044 932,361 908,126
30 Financial Firms` custody liabilities3 169,631 209,211 204,564 189,892 199,696 200,864 196,711 203,660 207,303 207,444
31 U.S. Treasury bills and certificates4 105,962 125,964 107,597 93,502 96,351 100,847 98,704 105,972 108,278 108,169
32 Other negotiable and readily transferable instruments5 20,819 24,756 23,878 25,006 26,037 25,691 23,970 24,936 25,209 24,492
33 Other 42,850 58,491 73,089 71,384 77,308 74,326 74,037 72,752 73,816 74,783
 
34 Other foreigners9 1,710,203 1,683,014 1,851,244 1,887,318 1,926,085 1,932,455 1,912,811 1,907,422 1,910,986 1,915,145
35 Financial Firms` own liabilities 1,222,560 1,146,976 1,263,928 1,303,593 1,336,648 1,319,681 1,297,604 1,296,171 1,329,236 1,328,024
36 Deposits2 650,316 666,108 692,756 723,201 730,770 728,679 724,932 746,011 753,474 750,778
37 Other 572,244 480,868 571,172 580,392 605,878 591,002 572,672 550,160 575,762 577,246
38 Financial Firms` custodial liabilities 487,643 536,038 587,316 583,725 589,437 612,774 615,207 611,251 581,750 587,121
39 U.S. Treasury bills and certificates4 225,073 256,172 255,965 254,652 250,187 265,398 261,244 255,985 253,507 262,369
40 Other negotiable and readily transferable instruments5 173,015 161,620 203,808 197,327 204,956 207,638 206,289 210,146 186,386 173,796
41 Other 89,555 118,246 127,543 131,746 134,294 139,738 147,674 145,120 141,857 150,956
 
 
  Memo  
42 Own foreign offices10 1,998,044 1,739,369 1,547,205 1,598,718 1,657,830 1,638,791 1,643,666 1,721,814 1,790,323 1,679,353
 
  BY AREA OR COUNTRY  
43 Total, all foreigners 4,847,339 4,734,047 4,650,531 4,757,018 4,874,252 4,856,490 4,868,705 4,949,198 5,006,525 4,873,250
 
44 Foreign countries 4,810,745 4,686,335 4,604,417 4,709,023 4,823,409 4,806,384 4,817,993 4,897,734 4,956,346 4,825,203
 
45 Europe 1,991,001 1,790,962 1,769,945 1,821,188 1,862,024 1,861,021 1,874,651 1,868,451 1,914,311 1,841,611
46 Austria 5,376 3,541 3,859 3,581 4,239 4,639 4,567 3,968 4,803 2,818
47 Belgium 33,218 30,866 34,721 43,272 28,236 32,676 28,533 26,734 25,116 25,035
48 Denmark 4,649 5,533 7,646 7,070 6,093 5,803 5,830 5,429 5,625 4,950
49 Finland 11,262 14,044 10,453 8,144 4,411 7,212 7,964 3,843 3,358 1,827
50 France 125,366 102,290 118,507 119,574 122,922 128,109 129,460 135,865 141,738 132,392
51 Germany 76,825 66,449 66,750 67,233 70,149 71,129 69,372 67,121 72,358 71,101
52 Greece 4,169 3,724 1,784 1,817 1,774 1,832 1,875 1,746 1,774 1,967
53 Ireland 205,040 185,494 174,721 193,271 201,615 199,155 202,896 201,778 200,943 187,660
54 Italy 15,977 21,489 23,056 27,664 25,517 24,966 23,640 25,511 24,342 20,580
55 Luxembourg 139,593 152,619 167,845 160,588 165,733 169,009 164,670 171,616 164,758 158,293
56 Netherlands 47,666 57,420 65,561 64,405 63,170 69,424 67,161 66,798 68,169 66,514
57 Norway 4,945 3,623 5,500 4,213 3,478 4,306 3,339 3,329 3,236 3,015
58 Portugal 2,971 2,151 1,900 1,585 1,768 2,012 1,592 1,616 1,579 2,254
59 Russia 14,003 15,690 15,251 22,580 23,637 25,221 23,095 24,725 16,210 20,465
60 Spain 14,945 21,456 19,022 24,357 24,530 24,579 16,750 21,505 21,733 18,163
61 Sweden 12,550 12,523 3,146 8,142 7,055 3,241 9,513 11,338 11,712 6,706
62 Switzerland 71,207 78,871 72,752 72,761 70,724 71,767 79,690 79,399 79,768 84,867
63 Turkey 64,556 48,791 37,697 38,852 36,926 37,537 40,681 36,966 39,944 42,905
64 United Kingdom 1,015,913 865,876 857,121 874,622 922,749 899,384 915,760 901,965 951,237 915,567
65 Channel Islands and the Isle of Man 65,138 48,008 35,568 32,582 33,276 34,887 35,891 35,263 35,102 34,954
66 Serbia 1,362 942 467 324 393 396 469 645 325 539
67 Other Europe 54,269 49,563 46,617 44,550 43,629 43,736 41,904 41,293 40,481 39,037
 
  Memo  
68 European Union11 1,725,421 1,553,598 1,569,875 1,614,886 1,658,945 1,651,464 1,658,930 1,656,863 1,709,092 1,625,954
 
69 Canada 167,835 163,881 179,485 172,855 171,390 170,821 181,230 188,853 184,457 176,580
 
70 Latin America 251,598 258,393 273,204 276,694 284,258 283,274 283,274 280,289 286,203 272,320
71 Argentina 11,673 12,446 13,992 16,440 16,900 14,517 13,935 15,617 15,385 15,018
72 Brazil 48,838 46,607 58,054 61,304 62,824 64,429 66,044 62,870 66,991 60,794
73 Chile 24,192 22,328 25,229 23,483 24,497 22,993 24,957 23,379 24,034 19,919
74 Colombia 11,359 7,922 10,330 9,924 11,363 11,630 11,264 10,935 12,014 9,805
75 Ecuador 3,472 3,891 3,406 3,210 3,219 3,296 3,191 3,074 3,100 2,935
76 Guatemala 2,072 2,297 2,493 2,885 2,846 2,750 3,357 2,671 2,549 1,975
77 Mexico 77,764 84,414 82,255 83,114 82,631 83,221 77,020 81,002 80,629 84,063
78 Panama 12,880 13,625 17,639 16,488 16,410 17,108 17,016 17,407 18,293 18,019
79 Peru 12,378 16,563 15,715 16,706 18,860 18,200 20,861 19,176 19,667 17,271
80 Uruguay 11,414 14,066 12,842 10,665 11,542 11,839 11,659 11,427 11,501 11,314
81 Venezuela 20,914 19,374 16,975 17,063 16,676 17,184 17,247 16,810 16,162 15,256
82 Other Latin America 14,642 14,860 14,274 15,412 16,490 16,107 16,723 15,921 15,878 15,951
 
83 Caribbean 1,583,064 1,471,019 1,290,445 1,335,694 1,383,755 1,386,299 1,370,212 1,413,547 1,434,326 1,396,930
84 Bahamas 88,569 49,115 60,101 60,363 59,748 64,947 54,142 55,126 56,187 56,774
85 Bermuda 58,898 52,657 60,143 58,566 58,718 57,580 52,516 53,721 52,715 53,745
86 British Virgin Islands 52,026 52,399 47,532 47,295 44,738 48,129 46,261 45,906 45,852 45,887
87 Cayman Islands 1,343,378 1,260,789 1,071,690 1,116,501 1,165,183 1,164,357 1,167,239 1,208,217 1,226,642 1,188,856
88 Cuba 48 46 25 26 24 24 24 24 24 24
89 Jamaica 1,312 2,183 2,626 2,648 2,777 2,400 2,022 1,526 2,205 1,695
90 Netherlands Antilles16 4,954 5,996 5,118 4,534 4,995 3,672 3,883 4,707 5,291 5,856
91 Trinidad and Tobago 4,309 4,358 4,506 3,878 4,251 3,890 3,784 4,053 3,718 3,524
92 Other Caribbean 29,570 43,476 38,704 41,883 43,321 41,300 40,341 40,267 41,692 40,569
 
93 Asia 740,479 911,244 981,303 993,505 1,001,847 982,770 981,735 998,244 1,003,845 993,541
94 China - Mainland 93,580 101,933 108,147 107,485 110,219 98,835 100,426 104,000 101,547 115,405
95 China - Hong Kong 98,889 146,914 124,716 126,958 130,435 140,587 135,035 132,515 132,956 127,732
96 India 12,921 22,454 20,997 38,993 32,197 36,302 35,025 38,915 37,549 32,085
97 Indonesia 14,420 12,919 10,952 12,900 11,786 10,458 13,458 11,321 11,884 12,268
98 Israel 20,605 16,284 16,341 18,312 17,521 16,426 17,314 19,454 20,607 19,409
99 Japan 191,522 294,395 347,634 353,866 357,240 345,786 334,711 342,692 352,525 347,499
100 Korea (South) 34,603 33,466 42,236 37,648 36,875 32,839 34,932 35,224 33,975 28,823
101 Philippines 6,558 6,437 8,149 6,219 6,375 5,645 5,686 5,147 5,450 6,413
102 Taiwan 27,084 34,154 37,940 32,025 34,499 34,311 30,459 33,071 38,278 34,753
103 Thailand 26,997 29,155 36,562 23,438 22,809 20,818 18,251 19,281 22,608 22,890
104 Middle Eastern oil-exporting countries12 132,888 121,902 119,663 134,852 136,124 134,462 142,356 139,995 129,324 127,986
105 Other Asia 80,412 91,231 107,966 100,809 105,767 106,301 114,082 116,629 117,142 118,278
 
106 Africa 31,622 36,158 45,308 47,311 51,862 53,588 55,327 70,552 66,218 74,395
107 Egypt 5,100 7,525 16,246 19,050 20,506 25,053 25,638 29,181 30,981 33,998
108 Morocco 484 761 836 1,012 1,013 1,561 1,448 2,161 1,593 1,182
109 South Africa 2,997 3,770 4,129 3,354 3,722 3,936 4,170 14,149 11,204 13,292
110 Oil-exporting countries13 6,126 6,122 6,828 7,655 8,547 7,141 8,364 9,478 8,998 11,664
111 Other Africa 16,915 17,980 17,269 16,240 18,074 15,897 15,707 15,583 13,442 14,259
 
112 Other countries 45,907 54,678 64,727 61,776 68,273 68,611 71,564 77,798 66,986 69,826
113 Australia 40,922 48,311 56,762 55,081 61,136 61,722 64,304 68,912 60,551 63,330
114 New Zealand 3,274 4,483 5,679 4,466 4,748 4,503 4,987 6,371 4,197 4,177
115 All Other 1,711 1,884 2,286 2,229 2,389 2,386 2,273 2,515 2,238 2,319
 
116 International and regional organizations 35,833 47,712 46,114 47,995 50,843 50,106 50,712 51,464 50,179 48,047
117 International14 23,447 37,839 34,223 36,191 38,116 33,378 34,712 34,031 33,925 32,048
118 Regional15 12,386 9,873 11,891 11,804 12,727 16,728 16,000 17,433 16,254 15,999
  1. Prior to December 2013, reporting firms include all types of depository institutions as well as some bank holding companies and brokers and dealers. Effective December 2013, data include, in addition, all other nonbank financial firms. Excludes bonds and notes of maturities longer than one year.   Return to table
  2. Non-negotiable deposits and brokerage balances.   Return to table
  3. Financial claims on residents of the United States, other than long-term securities, held by or through reporting firms for foreign customers. Also includes loans to U.S. residents in managed foreign offices of U.S. reporting institutions.   Return to table
  4. Includes nonmarketable certificates of indebtedness and Treasury bills issued to official institutions of foreign countries.   Return to table
  5. Principally bankers acceptances, commercial paper, negotiable time certificates of deposit, and short-term agency securities.   Return to table
  6. Principally the Bank for International Settlements, the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (World Bank), the Inter-American Development Bank, and the Asian Development Bank. Also includes African, Asian, Caribbean, European, Latin American, and Middle Eastern regional organizations. Excludes "holdings of dollars" of the International Monetary Fund.   Return to table
  7. Foreign central banks and foreign central governments.   Return to table
  8. Excludes central banks, which are included in `Official institutions.` Includes positions with affiliated banking offices also included in memo line (44) above.   Return to table
  9. Includes positions with affiliated non-banking offices also included in memo line (44) above.   Return to table
  10. For U.S. banks, includes amounts owed to own foreign branches and foreign subsidiaries consolidated in the quarterly Consolidated Reports of Condition filed with regulatory agencies. For all other U.S. financial firms, includes amounts owed to affiliated foreign offices. For agencies, branches, and majority-owned subsidiaries of foreign financial firms, consists principally of amounts owed to the head office or parent foreign office, and to foreign branches, agencies, or wholly owned subsidiaries of the head office or parent foreign financial firm.   Return to table
  11. The European Union includes Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. As of July 2013, includes Croatia.   Return to table
  12. Comprises Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates (Trucial States).   Return to table
  13. Comprises Algeria, Gabon, Libya, and Nigeria.   Return to table
  14. Principally the Bank for International Settlements, the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (World Bank), the Inter-American Development Bank, and the Asian Development Bank. Excludes "holdings of dollars" of the International Monetary Fund.   Return to table
  15. African, Asian, Caribbean, European, Latin American, and Middle Eastern regional organizations.   Return to table
  16. As of December 2013, Netherlands Antilles are reported separately as Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba, Curacao, St. Martin and St. Barthelemy, and Sint Maarten but are summed here for continuity.   Return to table
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