The Top 10 South American, African, Middle-Eastern and Pacific Banking Brands for 2009 as published by Brand Finance are listed below: South America Africa Middle East Pacific Â
The tables below list the Top 10 Banking Brands in North America and Europe based on their brand values at the end of 2008: Source: Brand Finance
Brand Finance has published the Top 500 Financial Brands for 2009.The table below lists the Top 10 Banking Brands in Asia based on their brand values at the end of 2008: “The methodology employed by Brand Finance in this Global Banking 500 listing uses a discounted cash flow (DCF) technique to discount estimated future royalties, …
The chart below shows the performance of equity markets of select countries over the long-term and in the past 20 years: Source: Credit Suisse via Equinox of South Africa In the long-term (1900-2008) shown in red color bar, the stock market returns of the countries shown above ranged from 1.5% to 6.5%. The grey bar …
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Despite the talk of so-called recovery the real economy is still struggling.U.S. banks are still weighed down by loan losses especially on consumer loans such as credit card loans. While the losses from credit losses are smaller compared to residential or CRE mortgages, they are still significant to monitor for many reasons some of which …
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