Top 25 Chinese Banks based on Tier 1 Capital

The Top 25 Chinese Banks based on Tier 1 Capital in 2009 are listed below. This ranking is part of the annual World’s Top 1000 Banks published by the influential The Banker magazine based in London,UK. Source: The Banker Note: The Tier 1 Capital is in $ millions. The top bank in China is Industrial …

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The Top 25 Asian Banks (excl. China and Japan) By Tier 1 Capital

Earlier this year The Banker magazine published its annual ranking of the world’s top banks. The graphic below lists the top 25 Asian banks (excluding China and Japan) based on their Tier 1 capital: Four Australian banks take the top four spots followed by Singapore’s DBS Bank (OTC: DBSDY). Two other Singapore banks are also …

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The World’s 50 Biggest Banks by Assets 2010

The Global Finance magazine has published its annual ranking of the World’s Biggest Banks for 2010 based on assets. BNP Paribas (BNPQY) of France tops the list with total of assets of over $2.9 Trillions. The World’s 50 Biggest Banks 2010: [TABLE=556] Source: Fitch Ratings except *Standard & Poor’s **Agricultural Bank of China Six Chinese …

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The World’s Safest Banks by Region 2010

In an earlier post we looked at the The World’s 50 Safest Banks based on rankings by the Global Finance magazine. In this post lets take a quick look at the safest banks for 2010 by region. a) The World’s Safest Banks in Asia 2010 [TABLE=527] b) The World’s Safest Banks in Australasia 2010 [TABLE=528] …

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The World’s 50 Safest Banks 2010

The Global Finance magazine has published its list of the world’s 50 safest banks for this year. These banks were selected “through a comparison of the long-term credit ratings and total assets of the 500 largest banks around the world. Ratings from Moody’s, Standard & Poor’s and Fitch were used.” The magazine has published this …

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