Estadísticas bancarias internacionales preliminares al cierre de marzo 2013. © BIS
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Statistical release: preliminary international banking statistics at end-March 2013. Basel, Switzerland, © Bank for International Settlements, Monetary and Economic Department, July 23, 2013, 14 p.

The latest international banking statistics show diverging trends in credit to advanced economies and emerging markets. Claims on advanced economies contracted by $342 billion between end-December 2012 and end-March 2013, mostly due to reduced claims on banks and related offices. This marked the sixth consecutive quarterly decline in interbank positions on advanced economies and brought the cumulative reduction since end-September 2011 to $1.9 trillion. In contrast, claims on borrowers in emerging economies increased by $265 billion between end-December 2012 and end-March 2013. The expansion was driven mostly by credit to emerging economies in Asia, especially China. In recent years, BIS reporting banks' exposure to Asian credit risk has increased even more rapidly than their lending to Asian borrowers because lending has been accompanied by a reduction in net credit risk transfers out of the region.

Palabras Clave: estadísticas bancarias internacionales, actividad bancaria internacional, créditos, activos internacionales, activos interbancarios, activos transfronterizos de los bancos, prestatarios no bancarios, gobiernos, intermediarios financieros no bancarios, marzo 2013
Clasificación JEL: E51, E58, G12, G21, G24, Y10