Although cross-border bank lending has fallen sharply since the crisis, extending our bank ownership database from 1995 … expanded abroad and doubled their presence. Especially advanced countries hit by a systemic crisis reduced their presence …

off in the 1970s as the Euromarkets gained traction and strongly developed in the lead up to the international debt crisis … of 1982. This article examines the birth of bank globalization in Latin America, a region of the developing world at the … bank globalization for the first time, the article also provides insights on the evolution and changing nature of this …