The Financial Express newspaper of India published India’s Best Banks in March this year. The banks were ranked based on the following factors: Strength & Soundness Growth Profitability Efficiency Credit Quality India’s Best Banks Click to Enlarge HDFC Bank (HDB) took the top rank in the New Private Sector Bank category. ICICI Bank (IBN) was …
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Each year The Banker magazine publishes a list of the best global banks based on various factors such as profits, losses, assets, etc. The graphic below lists the best and worst banks based on 2009 data: via The Economist It is interesting to note that the two most profitable banks in the world are Chinese …
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The five biggest banks of Mexico based on total assets are shown below: Source: The Banker The banking industry in Mexico is heavily dominated by foreign banks. Mexico’s largest bank Banamex is a Citigroup(C) subsidiary. BBVA Bancomer is the subsidiary of Spanish banking group BBVA (BBVA). Based in Monterrey Grupo Financiero Banorte has been in …
The four largest “Too Big To Fail(TBTF)” U.S. banks Bank of America (BAC), JPMorgan Chase(JPM), Citigroup (C) and Wells Fargo(WFC) continue to remain as the largest banks in the country. These TBTF banks are also known as the superbanks. From a November, 2009 article titled Too-Big-To-Fail and the Theory of Large Numbers by Henry C.K. …
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The Top 10 banks in Greece based on assets held is listed below. The $141 billion bailout package put together by European Union and the International Monetary Fund should help Greece from bankruptcy. Germany is expected to contribute $28b to this bailout fund and the plan has been approved the German parliament. One of the …