globalization, foreign bank numbers and foreign bank assets proxy for the level of foreign bank presence in the host countries. The average number of foreign banks accounts for 23.119 % of the total number of banks in the host countries. On average, foreign bank assets account for 18.594 % of total bank assets. These two measures seem to suggest that foreign banks, which exist in the host countries as subsidiaries or branches of parent banks, are generally smaller than the incumbent domestic banks in terms of assets. Foreign claims represent a country's expansion to other countries in the banking sector. The average consolidated foreign claims are 38.841 % of the GDP.

Turning to the bank characteristics variables, bank assets, measured as the logarithm of bank assets in millions ofUniversity of Hawaii researchers tracked dozens of hungry tiger
sharks to a remote atoll in the Papahanaumokuakea Marine
National Monument this summer. Civil Beat photojournalist Alana
Eagle documents the expedition in this multimedia special report.

Following The Money In Oahu Legislative Races

Some Democrats running for the Legislature will win their seats outright in the Aug. 11 primary; no candidates filed from any other party so there will be no general election.

Civil Beat analyzed campaign finance data released Thursday in four of these races — the North Shore, Kaneohe, Mililani and Manoa — with an eye toward who might be in the best position with less than a month to go before the primary. The latest reports cover the period from Jan. 1 through June 30.

Clayton Hee, who dropped out of the race