Research on the changes of US Bank Foreign claims during Financial Crisis

Foreign claims of a country's financial institutions can display these following information : 1. The market share which a country have in the international financial market; 2. the distribution of foreign financial assets in worldwide; 3. the potential risks which the country's financial institution will take from foreign claims. After the financial crisis of 2008, how dose it affect the three parts? Whether foreign claims of the US financial institutions will be changed or not? What information can be got from the issue of foreign claims? These are the starting point as well as the questions which need to be answered in this paper. Data analysis shows that: 1. The U.S. banks foreign claims share in the world have been restored; 2. The U.S foreign claims down to a minimum share during the most serious crisis time; 3. The developed countries are mainly the region of the state's foreign claims, and the foreign claims of the emerging economies increase simultaneously with the risk guarantee.