The beginning of the financial crisis and the critical economic situation generated a growing interest in analyzing the network structures formed by interbank liabilities. Hence, this investigation is focuses on a network of liabilities of the banking system. In the first instance, it was sought to find the causes and context of this crisis from the economic policies implemented since the 20th century. Then, the main topological measures of financial networks from different countries were presented to understand how the structure of a financial network allows generating economic policy solutions through centrality and grade distribution measures.
