U.S. nonbanking concerns’ financial claims on unaffiliated foreign banks and related interest receipts were re-estimated based on the introduction of foreign source data from the Netherlands, Germany, Italy, and France. The use of foreign source data expanded the program begun in 1992 to substantially improve the coverage of transactions of U.S. nonbanks with banks abroad. The substitution of the foreign source data begins in 1984 for Germany, 1987 for the Netherlands, 1989 for Italy, and 1990 for France.
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