Many of the small and regional U.S. banks trade on the NASDAQ market. In the past few years some of these banks have disappeared after they were shutdown by regulators or taken over by competitors. After TARP, many of the survivors have cleaned up their balance-sheets and are slowly recovering to attain pre-crisis levels. While …
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The table lists 9 foreign bank ADRs that trade on the OTC markets: [TABLE=868] Australian banks National Australia Bank Ltd (NABZY) and Australia and New Zealand Banking (ANZBY) have high yields of over 6%. European banks such as Commerzbank, Swedbank, Societe Generale are still a long way from getting back to normal due to heavy …
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During the credit crisis many U.S. banks suspended dividend payments entirely or reduced them significantly. Currently most of the banks pay dividends. But the yields on them is so small that investors are not attracted to them. For example, the current yields of the big four superbanks are follows: 1. JPMorgan Chase (JPM) Current Dividend …
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Asian banks in general have higher capital adequacy ratios than banks in Europe and the U.S. Large banks in Indonesia, Singapore and Taiwan have total capital adequacy ratios exceeding 15%. Source: REGIONAL ECONOMIC OUTLOOK, Asia: Consolidating Recovery, Building Sustainable Growth, IMFSurvey Magazine Capital adequacy ratio(CAR) “is a ratio of a bank’s capital to its risk”. …
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