In the following video, Motley Fool financial analysts David Hanson and Matt Koppenheffer discuss the banking bailout in Cyprus and the resulting run on Cypriot banks, and take a look at which U.S. banks hold the highest percentages of foreign deposits. David then tells us how strongly that metric could correlate to risk for U.S. big banks from exposure to increasingly volatile European uncertainty, and why it's important to know metrics like these as an investor in big banks.
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Which Big Banks Hold Foreign Deposits?
NYSE: BAC
Bank of America

Just how exposed are the big U.S. banks to the Cypriot bank run?
David Hanson has no position in any stocks mentioned. Matt Koppenheffer owns shares of Bank of America. The Motley Fool owns shares of Bank of America, Citigroup, and JPMorgan Chase. We Fools may not all hold the same opinions, but we all believe that considering a diverse range of insights makes us better investors. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy.
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