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These tables will be discontinued with the final table released in April 2022.

The source for these data is the Treasury International Capital System and future data publications can be found on Treasury’s website. Data on U.S. financial firms’ liabilities to foreign residents are available here. Data on U.S. financial firms’ claims on foreign residents are available here.

Data were previously published in the Supplement to the Federal Reserve Bulletin, which ceased publication in December 2008.

Release Date: April 2022
Financial Firms' Own and Domestic Customers' Claims on Foreigners Reported by Financial Firms in the United States (Table 3.19) 1
Payable in U.S. Dollars
Millions of dollars, end of period
Type of Claim 2018 2019 2020 Aug 2021 Sep 2021 Oct 2021/r Nov 2021/r Dec 2021 Jan 2022/r Feb 2022/p
1 Total claims reported by financial firms 3,384,894 3,608,574 3,644,539 n.a. 3,827,640 n.a. n.a. 3,836,713 n.a. n.a.
 
2 Financial firms' own claims on foreigners 2,825,614 3,084,221 3,269,354 3,256,277 3,217,508 3,276,475 3,333,101 3,267,891 3,260,565 3,271,647
3 Foreign official institutions 47,476 47,953 67,579 73,158 82,310 84,809 91,092 81,115 86,161 102,847
4 Foreign banks2 1,279,899 1,397,276 1,481,659 1,426,682 1,378,577 1,436,426 1,460,574 1,466,472 1,465,894 1,424,249
5 Other foreigners3 1,498,239 1,638,992 1,720,116 1,756,437 1,756,621 1,755,240 1,781,435 1,720,304 1,708,510 1,744,551
 
6 Claims of financial firms’ domestic customers4 559,280 524,353 375,185 n.a. 610,132 n.a. n.a. 568,822 n.a. n.a.
7 Non-negotiable deposits 74,136 76,056 72,405 n.a. 64,920 n.a. n.a. 65,331 n.a. n.a.
8 Negotiable CDs 123,287 82,797 27,387 n.a. 40,413 n.a. n.a. 78,872 n.a. n.a.
9 Other short-term negotiable instruments5 329,469 352,339 254,598 n.a. 477,716 n.a. n.a. 397,794 n.a. n.a.
10 Other claims 32,388 13,161 20,795 n.a. 27,083 n.a. n.a. 26,825 n.a. n.a.
 
  Memo  
11 Non-negotiable deposits 455,271 504,895 484,394 475,681 475,295 470,502 463,426 479,897 495,145 470,890
12 Negotiable CDs 498 2 106 277 242 66 65 0 61 65
13 Other short-term negotiable instruments 5,127 5,553 5,986 8,277 6,827 6,817 6,754 3,971 8,565 12,584
14 Other claims 2,364,718 2,573,771 2,778,868 2,772,042 2,735,144 2,799,090 2,862,856 2,784,023 2,756,794 2,788,108
15 Own foreign offices6 1,382,431 1,519,612 1,619,989 1,620,588 1,562,074 1,621,580 1,622,644 1,595,411 1,630,664 1,593,004
 
16 Loans collateralized by repurchase agreements 1,028,433 1,193,865 1,282,307 1,165,384 1,144,091 1,175,951 1,231,829 1,194,478 1,183,203 1,227,828
  1. For financial firms’ claims, data are monthly; for claims of financial firms’ domestic customers, data are for the quarter ending with the month indicated. Prior to December 2013, reporting firms include all types of depository institutions as well as bank holding companies and brokers and dealers. Effective December 2013, data include, in addition, all other nonbank financial firms.   Return to table
  2. Includes positions with affiliated banking offices also included in memo line (15) above.   Return to table
  3. Includes positions with affiliated non-banking offices also included in memo line (15) above.   Return to table
  4. Claims on foreigners reported by firms located in the United States, in which the assets are held by the firm for the accounts of domestic customers. Includes balances in off-shore sweep accounts.   Return to table
  5. Primarily bankers acceptances and commercial paper.   Return to table
  6. 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
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Last Update: April 29, 2022