The illustrations below provides information about who holds Sovereign debt of Greece.
Overall, more than half of the Greek bond belongs to Eurozone, in contrast to other five holders. Furthermore, among the Eurozone members, Germany is by far first.
Eurozone’s contribution to Greek debt is large,it takes around 193 billion euros. The other holders that also have plenty amount of money are IMF with 32 billion euros and ECB with 20 billion. Meanwhile, other bond holders debt is 48 billion,also, other lenders hold 17 billion euros of Greece. However, Greece’s own banks had only tiny minority of debt.
Only slight proportion of money belongs to Portugal, Poland, and Slovakia,all three had around or more than 1 billion euros. Finland owns almost 4 billion and stands after Austria, that exposes more than 5 billion euros. More than 7 billion belongs to Belgium, whether Netherlands open top five with total sum of just under 12 billion, which is two times less than its nearest rival, Spain. Third exposure level belongs to Italy, and the second is France, with 37 and 42 billions each, respectively. Finally, the largest Eurozone member is Germany, that has more than 56 billion euro exposure.
