The BIS consolidated international banking statistics
May 1999
The BIS is releasing today its semiannual consolidated statistics on the
maturity, sectoral and nationality distribution of international bank lending
for end-1998, together with summary tables covering earlier reporting periods.
The statistics are available on the BIS website (www.bis.org) and will be
reproduced in the statistical annex of the June 1999 issue of the BIS Quarterly
Review, to be released on 14 June 1999
1. The BIS international
banking data are also included in the joint BIS-IMF-OECD-World Bank quarterly
statistical release on external debt, which has recently been introduced in
order to facilitate timely access to a single set of debt indicators drawn
mostly from creditor and market sources
2.
1For related conceptual and statistical issues, see International Banking and Financial Market Developments, August 1998.
2The statistics are available at: www.bis.org/publ/r_db9901.htm,
and can also be accessed via each organisation's own website.
