Also, the loan portfolios of our banks were largely funded from domestic deposit mobilization with little exposure to wholesale financing from external sources. BIS central bankers’ speeches  1  There is the argument in some quarters that the international financial crisis was one of several factors that contributed to the collapse of CL Financial and the Stanford Bank.
While this may be true, the demise of these institutions was in the main self-inflicted. Several macro-prudential indicators paint a fairly robust picture of the regional banking system. I have sought to show these indicators in comparison with those of the advanced countries in a few slides.