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Those numbers are for all bank offices located in the Bahamas, most of which are foreign bank branches. The numbers in the row "By type of bank - Domestic banks" [1] appear consistent with the article.

[1] https://stats.bis.org/statx/srs/table/A5?c=BS&m=S&p=20202&o=...

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Author here; this is the correct answer. The larger number refers to all banks. Deltec is known to be a domestic bank, so we can use the smaller number to get tighter uncertainty bounds on its currency flows.

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