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The Stability of the International Banking System (CRS Report for Congress)

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Release Date July 10, 1985
Report Number IB82107
Authors Arlene Wilson, Economics Division
Source Agency Congressional Research Service
Summary:

The rapid growth of international banking in the last decade, combinedwith the recent debt problems of Mexico, Brazil and Argentina, have givenrise to considerable concern about the stability of the international bankingSystem. This issue brief, which focuses on the international banking system,assesses the special risks of international bank lending, major cases ofinternational bank failures, the LDC debt problem, the possibility ofdefault, governmental actions to reduce the risks of international lending,and policy options.